Can you die in dreams - I don't think it's true?

Question

Testing the theory that if you die in your dream you don't ever wake up
I dreamt one night years ago that I was crossing a beech and the sand pulled me under. I watch as the sand closed in over my face and the light vanished. I held my breath and fought the downward motion for a while then I suddenly stopped and just gave up. I exhaled my last living breath, closed my eyes to die.
Why am I still here ?
The sand in the dream just vapourised from around me, all was light and I woke from sleep

I don't think your mind will let you die in a dream, it's a falacy
What do you think

JELLYLEGS
Your bamboozling me with sylables !

IZZY
exactly your mind wont let you do it

HANNA 999
You all seem to concur that you wake before it happens

HEXNOTHING
All part of the service

Answer 1

When I was around 11-years-old a neighbour boy told me that if I fell and hit the ground in a dream I would die in real life. I resolved to not wake up next time. After a while, I dreamed that I was falling very far - I made sure that I didn't wake up. I bounced instead.

Answer 2

I think the dream is simply reflecting your fear around death. When we think of death and witness others die we see the last breath and the physical body just giving up. In our mind I think we try to imagine what it is like to just not breath any more ~ to die.....I think we try to prepare ourselves for his eventuality.

You are still here because it was just a dream that is playing out your fear.

But notice that the dream has given you something else. And answer to your fear. The light. This is hugely significant. So much anecdotal evidence that speaks of this light we find ourselves in the presence of in out of the body experiences, as well as other situations where we get a glimpse.

It seems to me that when our physical body dies, our spirit lives on.....sort of like 'us' as we are aware of ourselves but minus a physical body. Our consciousness simply does not die.

I think it can be very difficult to take a lot of this on board, particularly when we cannot see past our human body. But there is a lot we don't know yet. And just because we can't see something, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Really interesting question you ask!

Answer 3

The film Nightmare on Elm Street was supposedly inspired by teens in America dying in their dreams, but I don't know how true that is (or how they could possibly know that's what killed them).

I've had some dreams where I've been shocked awake - and I suppose if I had a dodgy heart, in theory it could have killed me.

But I think the chances of someone healthy dying because of a dream is extremely small.

Or, do you mean that they die in the dream, and then wake-up? Dunno, it's not something I think I've ever dreamed about.

Answer 4

I have died in my dreams several times- I have been shot and stabbed and I think I have been ran over but when I do die its like watching a tv programme- its like Im in someone elses body and im on the floor-I have never died when I am me.......if that makes sense BUT maybe I was in the process of dying just before I wake up. It is weird that after you die or are dying in a dream it never carries on.........

Answer 5

This is interesting! Hm. I have had a couple of dreams where I was drowning, and before I die, the dream ends and switches to something else, or I wake up.

Answer 6

- Personal (non-professional) opinion -

Our brain has defence mechanisms which ensure our well-being
stays like that. When something goes wrong , action(s) are taken.
I think it may be possible (but extra-highly unlikely) to die in your dreams.
In a self-suggestion state , if you really believe that you are dying
it may become in reality.
The brain is active producing toxins and proteins and in some rare cases things might go wrong and end up in a stroke...
Anyway , it's just a theory. SLEEP WELL :-)

Answer 7

people have been known to die in there sleep whether they were dreaming or not at the time is anyones guess.im epileptic and i do dream about having a fit and i then wake up and my bodies reacting to tell me i did acually fit ,so suppose you could.ive had other people die in my dreams though but if im honest theyre my pipe dreams lol

Answer 8

you didn't actually die in your dream as u said the sand dissapeared

people say that u can not die in your dreams as u can only dream about what u have experianced

if this si so then u can not die in your dream, thus u can not dream of dieng in order to die

however i think u can dream things u have not experianced, but i also do not believe that dreaming of your death kills you

however i do believe that if you die in your sleep u will have been dreaming that u were dieing when u did die (but this is not saying that everytime you dream of dieing u die, just then when u do die whilst dreaming, u dream of dieing)

Answer 9

well,i used all ways have nightmares about falling from great heights but I seemed to always wake up before i hit the ground.then,somebody told me that if do hit the ground in this dream your body will think it's real a die.To be honest,I dint know!

Answer 10

I think dreams are your imagination at work (maybe) I mean, I bet most people have dreamnt about something they watched on tv, something they were scared of, or something they want really bad, like a dog.