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If you’re being chased in a dream, does your body produce adrenaline?

The stuff of nightmares … Sumatran tiger. Photograph: Syahrul Ramadan/Barcroft Media
The stuff of nightmares … Sumatran tiger. Photograph: Syahrul Ramadan/Barcroft Media

If you’re dreaming that a fierce beast is chasing you, thus potentially triggering the fight or flight reaction, does your body produce adrenaline even if you’re asleep?

Angela Brassley, Ilsington, Newton Abbot, Devon

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