This isn't so much a lucid dreaming question as a general one:

It's part of common folklore that if you have a falling dream, you always wake up before you hit the ground and die. Well, I recently had a dream where myself and some friends were free falling in an elevator shaft and I didn't wake up. In fact, it turned out that there were long spikes at the bottom of the elevator shaft that tore our bodies to shreds. I can still remember the feel of being impaled in a dozen places. Not pleasant.

So is the whole not-dying-in-dreams thing bunk? Also, can you die in a lucid dream, and if so are there any consequences?

Thanks,

Zil.