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[Daniquee]

I know this topic is already here but i thought lets just do it again.

I have had a weird dream lately.
It looked like I was dead and I was in an ambulance with people trying to save me, I looked over my own body and what people did.
It was all very fast and I heard 'we're at the hospital now' and then I woke up. It was clear I was in a car accident.

Did anyone else ever dreamed about their own deaths, or did they see themselves dead?

[sarah_444]

Daniquee, on 02 March 2012 - 03:39 PM, said:

I know this topic is already here but i thought lets just do it again.

I have had a weird dream lately.
It looked like I was dead and I was in an ambulance with people trying to save me, I looked over my own body and what people did.
It was all very fast and I heard 'we're at the hospital now' and then I woke up. It was clear I was in a car accident.

Did anyone else ever dreamed about their own deaths, or did they see themselves dead?

Sort of.
Last year I had one where I was attacked by some guy.  I was stabbed in the throat and I remember everything vividly still.  I remember the shock, the pain and the struggle to breathe.   I remember falling to the ground and starting to black out, I was about to wake myself up but at that point I told myself that it was a dream (I was Lucid dreaming).  Everything in the dream was black and silent for I don't know how long. (but I was still aware I was dreaming and still "there") Then I could see the ambulance coming and people standing over me but it was all blurred. After that I woke up.

Edited by sarah_444, 02 March 2012 - 03:52 PM.

[orangepeaceful79]

sarah_444, on 02 March 2012 - 03:51 PM, said:

Sort of.
Last year I had one where I was attacked by some guy.  I was stabbed in the throat and I remember everything vividly still.  I remember the shock, the pain and the struggle to breathe.   I remember falling to the ground and starting to black out, I was about to wake myself up but at that point I told myself that it was a dream (I was Lucid dreaming).  Everything in the dream was black and silent for I don't know how long. (but I was still aware I was dreaming and still "there") Then I could see the ambulance coming and people standing over me but it was all blurred. After that I woke up.

I remember when i was a kid I had this recurring dream - probably 3 or 4 times that I was a soldier and that I was running and getting shot in the back....I could feel the pressure and impacts of the bullets hitting me in the back, but no pain.  I have no idea what getting shot feels like.  I just remember this dream from my childhood.  Humans dream some crazy things.  I think we can all agree on that.

[sarah_444]

orangepeaceful79, on 02 March 2012 - 06:43 PM, said:

Humans dream some crazy things.  I think we can all agree on that.

Yep, that's for sure! I have a much better imagination while I'm asleep then when I am awake.  

[Its Mii]

I've had a similar one with a car, but I didn't feel pain. I was in a black muscle car, I was the passenger and we were going really fast, all of a sudden we made a quick turn and there was a wall right in front of us. Right then things went black... I was in a really odd, quiet darkness (it was like my eyes were closed). I was thinking to myself... What happened?? We should have hit the wall by now... My eyes are open, am I dead??  

I woke up super freaked out, it felt so real... I thought I was dead.

[Kryso]

I once had a night fright where I woke-up, and I was inside a coffin looking up at all the people around my grave side. Freaky, lol

[mrknownothing]

I have a dream all the time, and I mean I've had it 20-30 times over many years, where I'm running out of my house and it explodes. The explosion sends me flying up into the air and while I'm up there another explosion sends me up even further and I'm looking down on this tree in my yard. I'm not in pain and don't seam to have been hurt by the explosion but I'm like 40' in the air thinking there's no way I don't get seriously injured/killed when I finally hit the ground. Then that's it, dream's over. I guess I wake up because that's the only way I'd remember it. It's really odd.

[Timonthy]

I have vivid dreams most nights which span almost anything imaginable.

Many of these have included me dying, whether accidental or otherwise, whether once, multiple times differently, or recurring in a similar fashion.

I have watched myself being carved up and eaten, been swallowed by giant walking pants, shot, killed in car crashes, drowned, you name it...

Having said that, when I was younger I would consider these 'nightmares', however now it is simply the end to one stage of a dream and the start to another. I usually 'come to' in another scenario, related or otherwise to the previous situation I was in.
I rarely find dreams distressing any longer and can usually wake myself up on command if I wish. However it's pretty much only if I want the dream to end so I can fall asleep again and try to 'come to' in another dream.

So to answer your question, yes I have and still do  

[Daniquee]

Timonthy, on 05 March 2012 - 05:47 AM, said:

I have vivid dreams most nights which span almost anything imaginable.

Many of these have included me dying, whether accidental or otherwise, whether once, multiple times differently, or recurring in a similar fashion.

I have watched myself being carved up and eaten, been swallowed by giant walking pants, shot, killed in car crashes, drowned, you name it...

Having said that, when I was younger I would consider these 'nightmares', however now it is simply the end to one stage of a dream and the start to another. I usually 'come to' in another scenario, related or otherwise to the previous situation I was in.
I rarely find dreams distressing any longer and can usually wake myself up on command if I wish. However it's pretty much only if I want the dream to end so I can fall asleep again and try to 'come to' in another dream.

So to answer your question, yes I have and still do  

I hope this stops for you soon, sounds horrible. I'd be terrified for everything around my. Especially pants now but as a guy its weird to wear a skirt right? ever tried to do something about it?

[Tia]

I've had a few death dreams but one of the worse was when I only had 2 kids and they were young. We were driving along like a large country road with 2 lanes each way. For some reason all of us were in the front seat and as we were waiting to go through the round about a large truck with a trailer came around and lost control loosing some sort of machinery off the trailer.

I watched in like slow motion seeing this piece of huge machinery rolling over and over in slow motion coming straight towards me. I knew we were all going to die but didn't feel the impact or pain.

The next part I was walking up the golden tunnel and I'm screaming my kids names crying. I knew they must have dies as well and I couldn't find them.

I woke next and for the first time ever I had tears all over my face and was over whelmed with such a deep feeling of sadness, it was probably one of the worse dreams ever.

[pinupgirl]

I have had a few death dreams.The most memorable was when i was about 12 years old.I was adopted and i dreamt that my Father told me that he wished that they never adopted me and then he shot me in the head. I woke up from the gun shot.Now that i am older..i think that this dream was very symbolic.I was seeing the years to come of him not approving of me.We have very different ways of thinking and that has divided us.I suppose in a symbolic sense..my dream sort of came true.

[Timonthy]

Daniquee, on 05 March 2012 - 09:31 AM, said:

I hope this stops for you soon, sounds horrible. I'd be terrified for everything around my. Especially pants now but as a guy its weird to wear a skirt right? ever tried to do something about it?

Haha no it's fine Daniquee. When I was younger I found it terrifying, but now there's not much more than a mild anxiety. The dreams are often lucid too.

They combine aspects of games I have been playing, movies and TV shows I've watched, and different experiences of my life into seemingly night-long epics which are very entertaining for me. I would not want to stop them...

[VonMagnum]

I have so many movie-like dreams that I've been "killed" dozens of times over the years in them.  Usually, I don't even wake up.  I just become the camera man or another person in the dream instead.  Thus, I don't take stock in those particular dreams at all.  I think it's just entertainment.  I almost never react to any dream as if it were a nightmare even if the content seems nightmarish.  It's like my mind knows it's not real and so it just treats it like a movie.

On the other hand, I have had some other dreams that just plain feel different somehow.  Usually, I can remember those ones from start to finish instead of just the middle of it onward (short term memory issue).  For example, a few months after my step-dad died, my grandmother was in the hospital under anesthetic for some kind of choking issue.  They were keeping an eye on her for some reason, but under sedation for a week until they could make sure they cleared it all up (avoid trauma of coughing or something?)  Anyway, I don't recall the exact details of why they had her artificially unconscious with anesthetic for that week, but I had this strange dream exactly one week before she died where I saw my step-dad in the kitchen of his and my mother's house (that in and of itself is unusual in that it looked normal.  Usually houses I dream of that I know are SUPPOSED to be a real house look just plain wrong and I don't realize it until I wake up, though).  Anyway, it looks exactly like the real kitchen and he's just looking at me.  He looked young like he did twenty years earlier long before they got married.  And he doesn't say anything, but somehow I just know what he's trying to communicate and the message was that my grandmother had already left her body and wasn't going to wake up from anesthesia.  I then woke up.  The next night I had a dream where my mother got a phone call and someone on the phone told her that her mother had died.  The following weekend my mother drove down to visit at the hospital with her brother (about 2 hours away) and so I certainly wouldn't have thought the phone dream was something to worry about that day, at least, but my mother said the doctor said everything was going fine and so she and few other family members went out to lunch, but her brother stayed at the hospital.  She got a call on her cell phone that her mother had passed away while they were at the restaurant.  Thus, both dreams were correct.  It was almost exactly a week after I had the dream.  Coincidence or a message from the other side?  I'm not certain, but I tend to think the latter is more likely given the exactness of it all.

[Countrified]

Daniquee, on 02 March 2012 - 03:39 PM, said:

I know this topic is already here but i thought lets just do it again.

I have had a weird dream lately.
It looked like I was dead and I was in an ambulance with people trying to save me, I looked over my own body and what people did.
It was all very fast and I heard 'we're at the hospital now' and then I woke up. It was clear I was in a car accident.

Did anyone else ever dreamed about their own deaths, or did they see themselves dead?

I have many dreams since i was a child and remember a lot of them. I am not scared of heights at all. I have 3 times climbed a 100ft 6" water tower at the Abby of Gethsemani in New Haven Ky. But have had many dreams of being on ledges of skyscrapers and falling but awoke before splatting on the pavement. Once I dreamed I was on a concrete wall ledge with nothing but water on either side. It was very dark so I assumed if i fell, there would be nothing around but water. I fell off the wall and I am a very good swimmer but was afraid to swim away from the wall because of fear of nothing but open water. There was no ladder or anything to pull myself from the water. I woke up terrified mainly because I have always thought that drowning would be the worst way to die. The closes I've ever felt like i was dying; but wasn't sure if it was dream or reality. I had laid down for a nap before i had to go to work. I felt as if I was waking up and everything i could see through my eyes was a white blur. I could not talk, or move my body but very little. It sounded like a freight train going through my head, and I could not hardly get a breath in. I was finally able to sit up on the side of the bed. I was shaking very hard through my whole body and was breathing very hard once I was able to breath again. Was I dying??? Guess I'll never know.

[VonMagnum]

Countrified, on 08 March 2012 - 09:49 PM, said:

I have many dreams since i was a child and remember a lot of them. I am not scared of heights at all. I have 3 times climbed a 100ft 6" water tower at the Abby of Gethsemani in New Haven Ky. But have had many dreams of being on ledges of skyscrapers and falling but awoke before splatting on the pavement. Once I dreamed I was on a concrete wall ledge with nothing but water on either side. It was very dark so I assumed if i fell, there would be nothing around but water. I fell off the wall and I am a very good swimmer but was afraid to swim away from the wall because of fear of nothing but open water. There was no ladder or anything to pull myself from the water. I woke up terrified mainly because I have always thought that drowning would be the worst way to die. The closes I've ever felt like i was dying; but wasn't sure if it was dream or reality. I had laid down for a nap before i had to go to work. I felt as if I was waking up and everything i could see through my eyes was a white blur. I could not talk, or move my body but very little. It sounded like a freight train going through my head, and I could not hardly get a breath in. I was finally able to sit up on the side of the bed. I was shaking very hard through my whole body and was breathing very hard once I was able to breath again. Was I dying??? Guess I'll never know.

That sounds (literally the freight train thing) like the state one reaches when they are able to leave their body for an "OBE" (out of body experience).  No, you weren't dying.  You were just in an altered state and sleep paralyzed.  If you had relaxed instead of fighting to wake up, you might have had an interesting little journey outside your body for awhile.  

As for the dream of death thing, I find it amusing that society has this myth that if you fall an hit the ground in a dream you die for real.  I've fallen in dreams and smacked right into the ground Wiley-Coyote style and I didn't die.  Heck, I don't even wake up anymore.  I either get up or become someone else in the dream or become like the camera in a movie.  I don't feel anything hitting the ground either.  I don't usually feel much at all in dreams (once in awhile).  I usually see and hear and a few times I could smell or taste, but that's pretty rare.  If I'm lucid, I can remember what I see as clearly as being awake.  Otherwise, I tend to forget some details or part of the dream.