Well, it is quite strange to say the least. The typical thing is that when I lie down I have some thoughts and images in my head, purely automatically, which is fair enough. Then I doze away and those images kind of dissolve into something more or less unreal, which is then the start of the dream. Quite normal so far. But in my case it is that within seconds those images turn into something bad, wrong, dangerous or shocking. Not extreme, but bad enough for me to jolt.
For example I’m driving a small road cross country in my car. All of a sudden behind a turn the road abrupty goes steep downhill, almost vertically. But they are all sorts of stuff, so there isn’t really a symbolic interpretation possible. But then I learned to alter those dreams, for example in the given case I pull up my car like an airplane and “fly” it back onto the road and go on. I believe this vaguely resembles a technique used in “lucid dreaming”. And besides that I so got used to it that it doesn’t scare me anymore.
By now I don’t think it has anything to do with MAV, except that the vertigo is quite upsetting and scary and maybe that somehow this finds its way into the dreams.
Best regards
Frank