I've always heard that if you dream you are falling off of a cliff and you actually hit the bottom would you really die in real life?
2006-11-09 02:15:33 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
That's an old wives' tale. I've had more "falling dreams" than I care to remember. Many times I've fallen in a dream and hit bottom just to abruptly awaken in a cold sweat. Other times I've fallen in a dream and hit bottom, then awakened to find that I really HAD fallen...out of bed. I'm still alive and kicking. *Knock on wood*
2006-11-09 02:29:51 · answer #1 · answered by xx_villainess_xx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had a dream once that I was in a falling airplane. After a long sequence of plummeting to the earth, we actually did hit the ground. I felt the impact as if it were real. I also died in the dream and had a vision of heaven (briefly). When I woke up, my heart was pounding like crazy. I think that had I had a heart condition, it might have sent me in to cardiac arrest. But, being a healthy, young adult, it only managed to scare the beejeezus out of me. So, I don't think that you could ever die as a direct result of a dream, no matter how scary.
2006-11-09 10:29:42 · answer #2 · answered by tateronmycouch 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it depends on the individual and how well they can deal with the shock. I had a fall dream once and hit the bottom and "faded out" into death, at which time I woke up rather abruptly. Having dreamed of having every bone and organ in my body crushed to the point of being quickly fatal was disturbing and I can see how the shock might kill anyone who believed it. As to proving it can or cannot happen, I don't think it's presently possible.
2006-11-09 12:22:34 · answer #3 · answered by stuck_fla 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eventually everyone dies that is the hole ending out come of life and living... Will you die tomorrow or in the next month or two I haven't, I have had dreams like this and I thing it means there is an ending to something that is near but not nessisarily your life... It could be a relationship, a job you know things like this...
2006-11-09 11:04:31 · answer #4 · answered by sophia_of_light 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Another one of those myths that cannot be completely dissproved. If it is actually true, then anyone dreaming it would be dead, so how could they tell you if it happened?
Even though I dream profusely, and very vividly (once cut a rick of wood in my dream, and woke up sore and tired) I don't ever recall a dream where I have actually had physical harm come to me. Wonder if anyone else has?
2006-11-09 10:21:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've hit the deck and it freaked me out. But I woke up and realized the book of life is short and the pages turn swiftly. Once writ they cannot be erased so fill them with goodness, truth, and beauty. There's more to life than Nascar and as it says in the Good Book, God is not to be found in the noise and the tumult but in the quiet places.
2006-11-09 10:21:22 · answer #6 · answered by laissez 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No it's a myth but there was one guy who got hit by a truck when he had a sleep disorder. He sleep ran instead of sleep walked. Scary to think about.
2006-11-09 11:56:26 · answer #7 · answered by missgigglebunny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've dreamt of being shot at and dying. I'm still alive.
So, the myth is a myth. You don't die from dying in your dreams.
2006-11-09 10:30:03 · answer #8 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. actually i have fallin of so many things in dreams and when i hit the bottom i just get a tingly feeling then wake up
2006-11-09 10:21:58 · answer #9 · answered by SoCcEr ChIcKa13 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All to many people have a tendency to be confused by fables that are called myth. the major different is that all myth are born in truth while fables are born of mans imagination........................
2006-11-09 13:30:02 · answer #10 · answered by kilroymaster 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋