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Have you ever had a dream where you died?

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Originally posted by: JujuFish
I'm horrible at making up a good story, but I dream lucidly all the time.
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You are better at making up a story then you think, because a dream is a kind of story, and YOU are making it up. 😀
You might have problems writing a story, perhaps because you find the task daunting or have writers block (or any other reason,) but I bet you are pretty good at imagining one.

There is nothing mystical about dreams, they are your mind doing some (as of yet poorly understood) memory process, and when you remember a dream it is probably your mind trying to make sense of that process. A lucid dream is you taking partial control of that autonomic process (or of the automatic interpretation thereof.)









 
Can't remember a dream where I died.
But there was this one week where I kept getting these really weird WTF nightmares, and then I'd wake up with a shock to my back. Like I would feel a huge zap in my spinal chord, and I would wake up.
 
I hate the dreams where I'm falling, thats all I can ever remember of it, and a split second before I land, I wake up, but it's weird, because whenever I have those, I always feel like I just hit my bed, I don't know if my muscles tense up and I release them just as I hit the ground and wake up or what, but its really weird.
 
Originally posted by: Vegitto
I die almost every night.. It's kinda scary, too..
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Me too, but it doesn't scare me honestly. I have very lucid/vivid dreams, so I'm usually aware of the fact that I'm dreaming. However, 99.9% of my dreams involve me running away from mobs with knives and guns or rabid animals. I've gotten used to this so every night it's just another episode. When I'm lucid in the dream, I can just will things to happen as necessary. If I need a gun, *poof* got one. If I need my attackers to have bombs strapped to them while I'm holding the remote detonator, *bam* done. Need to fly suddenly? No problem.

Occassionally, though, I won't realize that I'm dreaming. That's when I'm fscked. I've been stabbed, shot, eaten, and beaten with a bat. I can usually feel the pressure of these inflictions, but very rarely any pain. Most of the time I don't wake up. Sometimes I do and it's just "cool... didn't happen... time for the next one" and I go back to sleep.

My wife is disturbed by the fact that this is a routine night's sleep for me, but it's really not as bad as it sounds. I wouldn't even call them nightmares. I don't know what I'd call them, really.
 
all the time. i dream about how people would react to my departure as well. which of course would be "who?"
 
Once in a dream I fell off a cliff, hit the ground, got up, and kept walking. Other times I will fall and my whole body will tense up right when I would have hit the ground, and I will wake up.

Another time I was shot through the head, and woke up at the instant I would have died.

Another time someone stabbed me with a syringe and injected me with something that caused me to go unconscious within my dream. I then "woke up" in a totally different location, and the dream was uninterrupted during this time.

The best dream I ever had involving death was one where I became totally aware it was a dream, yet the dream was still going on. I believe it's called lucid dreaming. Anyway, I kept running out into a busy road and let myself get hit by big trucks that were going by. I would be thrown through the air, hit the ground uninjured, and run back and do it again. In that dream I also pissed off some dudes who repeatedly blasted me with shotguns. It threw me back, but my mind was not expecting to feel any pain since I knew it was a dream.
 
I woke up screaming, and started to climb out the bed when I woke up. I could not remember the dream though.
 
Your brain won't betray you by letting you die. I have been impaled by a giant piece of glass through the chest and I just wake up. I wake up sweating.

It's been documented that people who die in their sleep, the brain is usually at fault. It somehow fails to bring you out of a dream before you get past the point of no return. It's true. Remember, when Cypher pulled the chord and Apoc dies in the matrix. The same thing.
 
Only once.
I dreamed I was struck by lightning. Everything went black and was replaced by a buzzing electrical sound. I thought to myself "I'm dead now. Now what?" That's all I remember, the dream may have ended there.
 
Originally posted by: envy me

I had a very weird dream a few night ago, where I was being chased by people with guns, and I fell off of a cliff, but when I landed I was still alive, and they found me. Once they found me I remember being shot and right after I remember feeling getting a slight feeling of electrical shock (sort of like static electricity) and then waking up? Has anyone else had anything similar happen.

For those that had dreams of dying, did you wake up right after or what happened?
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i've read that you cannot die in a dream. you always wake up or the dream changes.

 
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