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 Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:07 am
Throughout my entire life, I've had an average of about one dream a month that ends in my (sometimes) horrific and gruesome death. They're not nightmares, because they cause no fear.
Most of the time, I fall from a very high place. Most people wake up before they impact. I get to feel my bones crushing as I hit the ground, or see the spike protruding from my chest as I'm impaled on it. And I actually feel the pain.
Sometimes, someone kills me. I've been shot and strangled a few times.
On a few rare occasions, I've hanged myself or been hit by a car.
Once, I drowned.
The strange thing is, I don't wake up until the dream me is completely dead. I feel everything until all life is gone.
Now to the point: I've heard it said that if you die in your dreams, you die in real life. If this is true, does that mean that a part of me dies every time I have one of these dreams?
There's also the theory that these may be past lives, or that they are different versions of me from theoretical realities.
So what do you all think?
Discuss:
Dream deaths--your own and characters in your dreams
My situation
Your own recurring morbid dreams
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:59 pm
wow this has really gotten me thinking here. I myself have not seen me die but get very close i have no dreams that i can remember there i was falling but i did have one where i was laying on a disk of some sort and there were more people and spikes were coming up from the holes in the disk and killing them one by one. When it got to me i saw them go threw me but i woke up the second that it happened. It was a odd dream and will stick with me for a long time i will guess. Anyway with the seeing yourself die in your dreams and you die is more going off the fact that your mind makes it real because in theory the mind is a powerful thing. Now on that note there is the thought with past lives and that is showing how you died in your past lives and seeing as your mind is powerful (so to say) you could put it as your mind knows that those are your past lives so it does not take that as reality and ergo you dont die. Well that's the theory anyway
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 2:59 pm
I had a dream once that I had a fatal disease. I knew I was dying, and as the dream went on, I got weaker. But I never actually died. But it was kinda worrying waking up from that.
I've also dreamed about one of my friends who died. I dream about her once a year, and frankly, that shakes me more than the other dream did.
Any dream involving the death of anything larger than a squirrel tends to disturb you.
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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 12:55 am
Zeal3000: The mind is indeed a powerful thing. I just hope that I can start to make sense of my deathmares. I want to know the reason behind them. I haven't had any in a few weeks, actually.
Ringo-Ichigo: I dream periodically of relatives of mine that have died. Usually the dreams are so real that I mistake them for reality. The most recurring character is my aunt. She basically raised me, and we lost her to breast cancer somewhere around five years ago. ever since, she's appeared in my dreams every now and then. We'll talk and drive around, cook and do normal things, but things we never did while she was alive. I've even dreamed of her telling me that she was proud of me. It could just be wish fulfillment, but I like to think that, wherever she is, if she is somewhere, some little part of her stayed behind with me to make sure I got through life okay. Death itself doesn't bother me. I've seen things die before. It's not pretty or pleasant, but it's not traumatizing either. Dreaming of the death of anything but myself or someone I truly love and would give my own life for doesn't bother me. We're all made of the same stuff, after all.
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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 12:40 pm
usually when I have those dreams I just tell myself its a dream and wake myself up by doing something in the dream, like jumping or banging my head against something. sometimes in the dream I just close my eyes, and next thing I know, im awake.
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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:00 pm
I can't do that. In the dream, I'm dead. And the dead don't talk.
I don't lucid dream. At all.
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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:39 pm
0-o Whoa, that's really weird. I've had dreams back when I was suicidal about drowning myself, but the worst was this one where I had to cross a metal bridge over this cliff to get into Sea World and these orcas were jumping all over under me, which freaked the heck out of me cuz that combines two of my greatest fears- deep water, heights, and freaking HUGE orcas. I made it in but a janitor threw me in Shamu's tank and he ate me and I woke up ...
I had another about an old crush locking me in a kelp factory. MAJORLY weird.
In my opinion about your dreams, I think that maybe you have a fear of dying or some major guilt about someone's death. Dreams are basically the corners of your mind you prefer to KEEP in the corner. Or maybe you saw something that was really deep in that way. I don't know. Frankly, the third theory doesn't work on me since I think too much and know exactly why I dream what I do, and I'm too nonchalant to really care.
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Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:33 pm
Yeah, everyone dies eventually, but no if you die in your dreams it usually means a new beginning. You're starting a new phase in life.
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