POLL: Have you ever died?

[Squisher]

It wasn't a dream.

 

[Corporate Thug]

nope

 

[TekDemon]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Whoa. I voted yes, and now that I think about it - I've always woken up at the instant just before impact, and often find that I go "UGH" and my body moves as if attempting to absorb an impact from whatever offending object in my dream was going to kill me - the bottom of a swimming pool, a bullet, a sledgehammer.

Fortunately, my unconscious has no problem carrying other acts out to completion, if you know what I mean.

You know, I recall waking up a bunch of times with my body doing that weird attempt to absorb the impact of the fall. But I don't really remember too much exactly why I was falling any of those times, nor that that fall would have been fatal.

So I can't say I recall having died in a dream. Heh then there are those times when I've dream about falling and I wake up and I'm on the floor lol. Hasn't happened in years but i used to. Good thing they stopped by the time I had my bed lofted Freshman year of college haha or I might have broken my back on my chair falling down. Actually, I did fall once off of that bed but that wasn't in my sleep, just trying to get off and slipping. And oww did that hurt, particularly when my arm got caught in the bedframe...but let's not talk about that =p

So no, I guess I haven't died in my dreams although I guess I've had falls that could POTENTIALLY be fatal but since I can't actually REMEMBER the details about the fall I can't really say what was the likely outcome.

 

[xSauronx]

hmmm
no

dreams i recall do not involve death

one when i was 16 involved jenny mcarthy, and several when i was 12-14 involved a death star and me blowing up a planet...only to wake as i was about to give the command to kill millions as i watched from my cushy chair

stupid dreams....

 

[Schadenfroh]

i got shot in the lungs, bled out, but did not die :Q

 

[Amorphus]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: Chiropteran

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
And there's the Urban Legend that if you die in your sleep, you'll die for real, because the body cannot live without the mind... but again, that's just a legend.

No, that wasn't an urban legend, that was The Matrix.

It was an urban legend LONG before The Matrix.

I concur :beer:

you're a lifer. shouldn't you have one of those ***(synonym of "agree/acknowledged" here)*** tags for yourself?

 

[lowfatbaconboy]

i never die in my dreams......ill either wake up or switch to something else

though one of my friends dreamt that he was gullitoned and his head was put on a pike and carried around
thats gotta be creepy IMO

 

[Wag]

Yes, but I got better.

 

[nmcglennon]

I have died in my dreams... it is wierd because it is actually a reoccurring dream.

The dream is that I am sailing a 40' yacht near a small island in the south pacific, and suddenly the sky darkens and a huge tsunami engulfs the boat, and I fall overboard, sink, get stuck in the doldrums, and drowned.

Wow, that's messed up.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Amorphus

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: Chiropteran

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
And there's the Urban Legend that if you die in your sleep, you'll die for real, because the body cannot live without the mind... but again, that's just a legend.

No, that wasn't an urban legend, that was The Matrix.

It was an urban legend LONG before The Matrix.

I concur :beer:

you're a lifer. shouldn't you have one of those ***(synonym of "agree/acknowledged" here)*** tags for yourself?

AFFIRMATIVE

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
all the time, the nightmare is that I wake up

I don't dream very much. I mean I guess I do, but I don't remember them.

Anyway.. No.

All the tens of thousands of documented cases of Near Death Experiences sure are interesting though.

Definately makes you think.

I've never died. I don't want to die. I'm afraid of dying. Well, I shouldn't say it like that.. I'm not afraid of dying itself, but the thought of dying so young makes me very sad.

I have felt like I was going to die though. Now that is a strange feeling.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: TekDemon

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Whoa. I voted yes, and now that I think about it - I've always woken up at the instant just before impact, and often find that I go "UGH" and my body moves as if attempting to absorb an impact from whatever offending object in my dream was going to kill me - the bottom of a swimming pool, a bullet, a sledgehammer.

Fortunately, my unconscious has no problem carrying other acts out to completion, if you know what I mean.

You know, I recall waking up a bunch of times with my body doing that weird attempt to absorb the impact of the fall. But I don't really remember too much exactly why I was falling any of those times, nor that that fall would have been fatal.

So I can't say I recall having died in a dream. Heh then there are those times when I've dream about falling and I wake up and I'm on the floor lol. Hasn't happened in years but i used to. Good thing they stopped by the time I had my bed lofted Freshman year of college haha or I might have broken my back on my chair falling down. Actually, I did fall once off of that bed but that wasn't in my sleep, just trying to get off and slipping. And oww did that hurt, particularly when my arm got caught in the bedframe...but let's not talk about that =p

So no, I guess I haven't died in my dreams although I guess I've had falls that could POTENTIALLY be fatal but since I can't actually REMEMBER the details about the fall I can't really say what was the likely outcome.

Poor guy.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Wag
Yes, but I got better.

Way to toss in a MPHG reference.

 

[TekDemon]

Originally posted by: Eli

I have felt like I was going to die though. Now that is a strange feeling.

Well I had never really felt that until the day I totaled my Civic Si...in those few seconds when my car got sandwiched between a pickup(ouch) and another car, when the passenger airbag went off because there was no passenger(and thus no buckled seatbelt, which made the airbag on the passenger side easier to trip) and the whole front of my eyes suddenly became on big bright white cloud, I seriously wondered if I was dead or if this was the end. My own airbag hadn't gone off since I had my belt on and that raised the threshold for triggering the airbag, so I didn't even know why everything was white for a good few seconds. It was a pretty sunny day too so I guess it gave a very weird feeling.

Of course I got over it =p but yeah, it's a weird feeling when you think "I guess this is it huh." I don't even think I was scared since there's no time to be afraid when you think you're at the end that very instant. Just a sort of "hmm...I guess this is it" sorta feeling.

All in all I guess I'm not really all that afraid of dying at this point. I don't WANT to die, but there's nothing really scary about it. I mean, it's bound to happen at some point, and you can't avoid it forever, so not much point in getting all scared over it lol. Unless you've done some real bad stuff and believe in Hell. In which case you might be getting scared because of that =p

 

[db]

In RW, I survived several suffocation attempts as an infant & young child by pretending to be dead. If you struggle, they know you're still alive.

 

[Jadow]

when I was younger I used to dream that Freddie was chasing me through the neighborhood. I NEVER got away, he offed me every time.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

yeah a couple...all of them is when I get shot at...

damn I get way too many dreams where I get shot...sigh

 

[Nocturnal]

When it happens I normally just feel as if I can't open my eyes. I always tell myself, "so this is what it's like when I die?" And I just usually wake up.

 

[Shawn]

Yes, I have also died in real life too. Well if you consider you heart stopping dieing i guess.....

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
all the time, the nightmare is that I wake up

Well that certainly explains a lot.

 

[Train]

i took a psych class that got really in depth with dreaming. Turns out the Urban Legend that you die in real life if you die in your dream is just that, a legend, after we did some exercices that let you become conscious while in a dream state, everyone's favorite thing to do was blow themselves up, because the weird sensation your body tries to come up with to simulate self-explosion is so intense. Another cool thing to do once your conscious within a dream is to fly, my first time i flew all over the damn place, then of course, once i got bored, blew my self up

 

[godspeedx]

Oh, in a dream? Nah.

 

[glugglug]

Where is the choice for "I am dead right now and am posting to the internet from beyond."

 

[Azraele]

I have. I dreamed I was shot in the head. Felt weird because there was no pain, but I felt like the bullet was richocheting around my skull. My eyesight went first, and I felt myself pitch forward. I opened my eyes and I was sitting on a bed. It the corner was a bright bright light, which I was supposed to go into I guess. I woke up then. That dream scared me.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Train
i took a psych class that got really in depth with dreaming. Turns out the Urban Legend that you die in real life if you die in your dream is just that, a legend, after we did some exercices that let you become conscious while in a dream state, everyone's favorite thing to do was blow themselves up, because the weird sensation your body tries to come up with to simulate self-explosion is so intense. Another cool thing to do once your conscious within a dream is to fly, my first time i flew all over the damn place, then of course, once i got bored, blew my self up

Sounds like the professor was giving out some good LSD. :Q