Real talk though, it’s because your brain can’t tell the difference between dream movements and real life movements. Basically, it’s to prevent you from actually punching whatever you’re laying next to. Your brain has a few methods to stop this, but the last resort is simply that your brain stops you from making any fast/forceful movements in dreams. Because the alternative is that you’d potentially punch your partner laying in bed next to you.
For me the motion is just start swimming in the air. However I have to know that it's a dream or I won't have the confidence and fall face first into the ground.
I don't get how there's people that can't do certain things in dreams, I can punch, run and all that
I read the other comment before mine and it makes sense but on the other hand a dream is just your imagination right? I can imagine myself punching someone without actually punching them
I dont even remember my dreams and the few times I do it feels like a deja vu afterwards. I guess this either means that I have no imagination or that my memory is so shitty that I forget my dreams instantly, Im not quite sure which is more probable.