the limitations in dreams

[kuurt]

I've had dreams where I was flying horizontally like superman and I could go really fast.  And I've had other dream we're I was trying to run away from someone and I seemed to be running in slow motion, but yet going as fast as I could go.  Sometimes in dreams there seems to be a weight on me or something keeping me from moving very fast.  Why the differences in speed?  Are these dreams experiences taking place on different planes with different rule sets?  One being extremely dense and hard to move in compared to the other? 

And I've had other dreams where I was sort of floating upward, to get away from beings on the ground that were trying to get me.  I would flap my arms to go higher and float up out of their reach.  But there was always a limit to how high I could go. I couldn't seem to go very high.  And I've had dreams where I've became fully aware, that is to say the experience turned into an astral projection. And I have floated really high above my house and saw it from above.  I didn't seem to have that limit keeping me from going that high.  Why the limit in one and not the other?  Did they take place in different planes with different rule sets? 

Or is this more about the level of awareness that one has?  Is it that when you're unaware that you're dreaming then you're more bound by the rule sets of that plane that your dream is taking place on?  And when you gain awareness and become lucid you are less bound by the limits of the rule set of the plane?  And when you're fully conscious and astral projecting you're not bound by the limits of the plane at all?  Is that what is going on? 

They say one way to test if you're dreaming is to flip a light switch on in the dream, and if you're dreaming the light will not come on right away.  I have noticed that this seems to be true in my experience.  If our thoughts manifest instantly on these planes, why not instant light changes?  Isn't that odd. Why this limitation? 

[Nameless]

These are all very good questions. I don't think I can answer them to your satisfaction but I can give you a few thoughts. I've had the flying in one experience to feeling like I'm slugging through molasses in the next.

The one thing that has worked for me in understanding is realizing that if I'm having trouble moving it is likely because moving at that particular time is not what I should be doing. If I can't fly then there is something else I am supposed to do.

I gotten to where I think of it as that 'stuck like glue' point. When I'm aware enough to realize it I have found that what I need to do is be still, wait, watch. I'm reacting but not in the appropriate fashion. Try that if you can remember and see how it works.

I don't really get the testing to see if your dreaming. I know people do this but I've never felt the need that I can remember at the moment.