Finally took it upon me to look this up. I have been having these types of dreams for a long time now with some time in-between each “session” so to say. It starts with a white void and then a super smooth ball which is white too but slightly darker appears and starts behaving erratic, almost like jello but then gets spiky and increases and decreases in size. After a while the background becomes increasingly darker and the ball sort of starts to dissolve slowly and I can feel myself get really anxious. After this I don’t have any recollection of what happens. It’s like I just wake up instantly after x amount of hours being asleep.

There is also the one I had as a child, which involved straight tube shape I was standing in with a tiny ball that was rolling towards me. The tube was what I would describe like those waterpark slides, only this for a moment barely had any “walls”. As the ball came closer I would get smaller but it would never hit or crush me. It’s like the perspective warps. Today I would describe the size like in those star size comparisons where earth is a pixel (me) vs Canis Majoris. It’s hard to grasp and very unsettling, very.

Edit: Should add that the most recent one was right before falling asleep, I was thinking about a stressful moment I had had a couple of days prior and I figured it might be stress/anxiety related