Is it normal to feel things in your dreams?
Yes, it’s normal to feel emotions and even physical sensations in dreams. Your brain can create convincing feelings while you sleep, and it may also weave real sensations from your body into the dream.
Absolutely. Dreams can include fear, happiness, embarrassment, touch, pain, or other sensations that feel surprisingly real while they’re happening. Your sleeping brain is generating the experience, though, so dream sensations can be fuzzy or change from one moment to the next.
Sometimes your brain also folds in something real—like being too warm, needing to pee, or a limb feeling uncomfortable—and turns it into part of the dream. Most people have some sensory or emotional experiences in dreams, even if they don’t remember them clearly after waking.