Answer:
I may seem real but it always turns out I was never there in the first place... you only see me during a certain resting stage.
What has 4 fingers and a thumb but is not living?
I am ten little beans your look at everyday.
What has many teeth but can't bite?
Forward I am heavy backward I am not. What am I?
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.