1) Your leg. Has it ever woken you up? Just as you're drifting between awake and sleep? Having hypnagogic dreams as one 'falls' asleep is not uncommon, and neither is startling oneself awake with a physical reaction to the images. Last night, S kicked me in her sleep and then awoke with an account of stepping down stairs. At that moment the peculiarity of that image struck me, as I have experienced similar hypnagogia. In the inbetweeness of this state, the visual of stairs seems so perfectly apt, I never really noticed it; the mind produces an image of it's own activity: a decent into the unconscious during sleep. A literal 'going-down', often even a sensation of falling, and it seems that it is a shared experience. I find quite often as well, that if I fail to fall asleep and come back to consciousness, I notice a strange quiet in the awake world and have a vague memory of music, or a cacophone of sound.
2) There exists a kind of emotional memory. Recall a pleasant thought or a painful one, and the body will likely recall that physical reactions and sensations that it may have gone through during the experience. Bodily experience and emotion can be triggered by thought and memory alone, often nearly as real as the actual moments that identified them.
3) What does it mean to be in a trance? Who is the dreamer?
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