Dying in Dreams

[Celeborn]

I have died twice during dreams, and both were very very vivid and grisly.

In the first it was late at night, and I had pulled over my car in a parking lot, so that I could call my girlfriend on my cell phone. I was dialing the number when I noticed out my rear view mirror, a couple of people in a van making a drug exchange. When I switched back into drive to get the hell out of there, one of them pulled out an automatic weapon and shot at my car. The bullets tore through both my car and my body. I felt every one pass through me, and I awoke with my body dancing to the rhythm of lead, so to speak.

The second time occurred the night after I had removed a Neg from a friend during an intense reiki treatment. Twice during the night I awoke to the same dream: I am standing by a turnpike with a few friends and loved ones watching as cars crash and pile up on the highway in a terrible accident. Then a fuel tanker hits the pile up, spins, and explodes, throwing flames and a huge concussion wave into our group. I dropped down and covered a nearby friend with my body as the wave hits, tearing the skin off my back and burning me alive. I awoke screaming both times.

The second case was clearly an attempt by the Neg of creating a core image. In the following days I had a very skilled friend of mine help to remove the entity after using water crossing and the like.
Both cases though were unusually vivid, and upon waking I could still feel "pain" from having been killed. Or perhaps energy at the point is more accurate.
Can anyone else back this up?
If so, it might mean that in order for a dreamer to actually be violantly killed the dream must be supernormally vivid/energized. Or maybe if I reach a little, all such dreams might possibly be Neg related.
Thoughts?

[BudOnly]

i once went to sleep with the thoughts of suicide and i had a dream where me a dog and a cat hiked through the woods and to the top of a cliff.....the dog and cat could talk......any way i said if im going to go.....were all going to go.....the cat jumped and splattered on the bottem in a wierd pattern without blood....then the dog jumped and before he hit the bottem i jumped ...it felt like 15 minutes before we hit the bottem.....when i hit the bottem i felt 5 seconds or so of all my bones snapping and crushing and my inside dropping and pushing out my sides and my arms and legs went in different directions .....still turns my stomach i woke up short of breath with a loud audiable thud

[Quantitativefool]

I've never managed to die in my dreams...maybe just a reflex, but even in lucid dreams I'm pulled out of the dream beforehand, or bounce off the ground and such...I've always wondered what the experience itself feels like..oh well...
-Stu

[Planet_Jeroen]

Anything between scary as hell, or wondering exitement I'd guess, depending on your take on it.


Jeroen

Long, long ago, I had a dream -- I don't think it was particularly lucid -- in which there seemed to be two of me. One of me fell and hit the ground. The other me reached out and caught my body bouncing off the ground.

Then both of us died. I remember feeling life fading out -- quickly -- but not all at once. I don't think it was painful.

I have, of course, felt pain in dreams, at times.

[Manix]

Had a most unusual dream last night that wasn't lucid, but disturbing anyway.

I was standing on the front porch of a house that was supposed to be my own, with my family standing nearby. We were watching a storm approach in the distance. On the horizon we see a very bright flash of light. My first thought was of lightning, but the flash instantly got brighter and continued till it was too bright to look at. My focus was just as quickly drawn away from the light to the wave of fire rushing towards us. We stood there staring in disbelief, wondering what it was. I said the first thing that popped into my mind, "I think we've just been nuked!" We didn't have the opportunity to contemplate the statment however. The fire storm overtook us, and we were incinerated. Which wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. For half a second, I felt like tiny redhot needles were pricking me all over, then nothing. I was simply drifting. I was aware of being beside my family one second, and drifting alone in muffled silence the next. It was as quick as that. Before I had time to fully register that I was dead, I woke up.

The dream did not end there. I only thought I woke up. I woke up in the dark bedroom of the house from the dream. I leapted out of bed and found my way outside where my family stood before, watching the storm on horizon. I then proceded to tell my mother of the dream I had, all the while never realizing, I was still dreaming.

Incineration is a first for me. I've died in many different fashions, but this one was one special. Never before have I been nuked.

[floatingadam]

I've died quite a few times in dreams.

I've been shot, stabbed, and smashed into the ground. I feel the pain, and even after I wake up I can still feel the buzzing.

I remember one time I was sleeping on a recliner and hit the stage where I was about to ready to have an OBE if I wanted to. All of a sudden, I thought I would like to know what it was like to be falling to your death, and it happend! It was the scariest feeling I have ever had!

Somehow I convinced myself to think it was real, because I'm always falling in dreams or while astral projecting and that never phases me.

I actually felt like I was going to die in a few seconds once I hit the ground. I started to think about how unfair my death was and my whole life kind of flashes before my eyes, it was a terrible feeling. It's hard to explain exactly what it was like. I honestly think I know what it's like to be falling and know that you are going to die when you hit the ground.

Those 3 or 4 seconds were completely unique to anything I have ever felt before. I've done the same thing at least once or twice since then, but I don't remember doing it on purpose.

Has anybody experienced that?

[CFTraveler]

When I was around 16, I had a very vivid dream, in which I jumped off a building. It was very realistic, and the moments from when I jumped to when I hit the ground (no pain, but I felt impact.) I had thoughts of the life of the person who was jumping. What really affected me was the severe emotional pain this person was in was so overwhelming, that when I woke up I was still in pain, only upon waking I couldn't remember what the reason was for "my" jumping. I always thought that it really wasn't me, they weren't my memories, that when I was sleeping I "zoned in" on someone who was in that situation. Now, as an older person, I wonder if that was some psychological thing I was going through, manifesting that way. By the way, a few days later, a lady jumped off the building where my dad worked. I've often wondered if that was related- even though it didn't happen at the same time.
Any opinions?

[floatingadam]

Soph, I wasn't trying to kill myself in the dream. I just wanted to know what it would feel like to know that I was dying. It was terrifying. I was wondering if anybody had ever actually felt like that, knowing it was a dream but still feeling like they were really going to die.

CF, that's pretty strange. I've never experienced anything like that. Anything else like that ever happened to you? Premonitions in dreams?

[Celeborn]

I find it fascinating that most of us who have died in dreams have experienced fear and pain in the dream, followed by some kind of energetic pain or sensation that continues upon waking.
I think that this is very significant.

Do dreams in which we are actually able to die require some kind of energetic threashold to be broken (as is speculated for lucid dreams and how we trigger them), or does the act of dreaming through to the bitter end (and not waking up beforehand) generate the increadible energy in and of itself?

Or can we take the paraniod route, and suspect outside involvement in the case of this type of dream?