Illusional dreams

Dreams, crazy dreams. Nightmares! Lots of tossing and turning. Trying to stop those bad guys from catching up with me. I am running and they just keep coming closer. Closer still. I trip, I fall. I keep falling. A feeling of complete weightlessness washes over me. Thud! I land. Feel my breath go out of me. Am I dead? My dream tells me I am. But my conscious mind tells me "Wake up! You are still breathing! You are still alive!." And yes, somehow, I wake. I am too afraid to go back to sleep. Lie awake in the dark willing myself to be vigilant, to keep my eyes from closing shut. They don't agree. They need rest. Sleep comes. It eventually does and this time the mind goes completely blank. Like the dream was an illusion in itself. Was it? Or was it a message to open my eyes to reality.