I was told a few years ago that if you die in your dreams you will die in real life.

Don't believe it!

I once had a very realistic dream, where I was driving my car down a gravel road and approaching a "T" intersection at high speed. I still remember the dream vividly today, it was summer time the sky was clear the grass was green, and the sun was shining brightly.

As I approached the intersection I realized I was travelling too fast to make the corner, and my car slammed into a power pole that was just off the road.

I was ejected from the car and was heading upward at about a 45 degree angle, I just kept going and going. It was very peacefull, I never saw any "white light" or heard any noise except for the wind.

I glanced back at the car, and as I did I suddenly realized that I was dead, and woke up.

I've never told anybody about the dream or had another one, but since then I have never been afraid to die.

I wonder where the whole myth of if you die in your dreams, you die in real life came from. When I was younger I used to believe it but not now that I am older. I have had near death dreams but I would always wake up before it happened.

once I dreamed I was buried alive... Me and me family were walking throug a grave yard in day and a skelton switched me and him so e walked with my family and I was got stuck with the coffin, it sucked

I don't think you should rule out dying in real life because of a dream. It is a very rare occurence but it is very possible of happening. Though i haven't died in my dreams yet I still think it is possible of happening. You dream and realised the end was comming. With falling dreams and other suck like that, the death is instant and is to fast to make peace with as you did in your dream.

Example of my theory: you dream of jumping off a high bridge without a bungee cord, though its is like a falling dream you know what is comming to you as you jump off without any type of safety.

When you dream of suddenly falling, your first though is "OH NO" then you hit the ground (or in almost all occasions you wake up). You don't have time to know what is happening all your mind knows is you are going to die...and as such it can stop working.



Catch my drift?

Yes I understand what you are saying and that makes sense. However I believe in my case that I died as I left the vehicle. I distinctly remember that when I turned back to look at the car I remarked to myself........."oh, I'm dead".


The other interesting thing about this dream, is that it happened over 12 years ago, and it's the only dream I can still remember clearly from start to finish.

I think the idea of you dying in your dreams and dying in real life came from the idea that your brain is a very powerful tool. And what happens in your mind can be related to life.

I think in some extreme cases it might happen. But this may be because the body was ready to die.

Yeah, I have died in my dreams many times.

But I always wake up

I fell off a cliff in a dream, hit the bottom, then woke up in some real pain, just like jumping off a high cliff would feel...it was like my body was so attached to what my mind was thinking, that it made it a reality.

I had a dream where I was in a car accident, a large piece of machinery fell off the back of a truck and in slow motion I watched it coming towards the car knowing we were going to die.

I screamed in my dream because my 2 children ( old dream ) were with me, then everything went black. Next thing I was walking up the tunnel of white light but my kids weren't with me and I was screaming and crying trying to find them.

I woke up sobbing, which is a first for me. I spent years worrying we were going to have a car accident like that and even now if I see heavy machinery being towed I stress.

In my dream I died, but I'm still here and continue to have dreams of dying.

I’ve only had one dream where I’ve seen someone’s death. I believe that I have a slight sixth sense that ponders out every now, and then…Well it was a week before my Great Grandmother died, I was in a very dark place in Cleveland. She came up to me and I shook her hand, she said something about “Don’t support the narcissism within myself”…I woke up soon afterwards in this darkening emotion. The week after the dream happened, she killed herself, so now I think about that idea of her narcissism, and her overreacting amount of love for herself. I think she try to impress others with her own personality…I haven’t talked about it since then (happened in 2001)...I had a few others happend too

Sixth Sense Topic

Okay, true story here. I had a very vivid dream once that wound through a complex plot (someday I'm going to turn this into a short story, but with a different ending!) and ended up with me being chased though an old castle by a *very* angry dragon. It was breathing fire and melting the stones into puddles of lava and everything. I climbed up on a wall to get away from him, but the wall split and started to fall. In my dream I clearly remember thinking to myself, "oh, ($)%*! I'm going to die! I don't want to die! But how can I not? . . . . OF COURSE! Batman and Robin will save me!"

And they did.

Often the interpretation for death in a dream, is the mind subconciously telling you it is in need of a change. Things in dreams often cannot be taken literally, as the human brain is a complex tool that does not often use the simplest solution....

if this were true i wudda been dead about 100 times now

same here

Hi all!

I thought I would have a look around to see what 'death dreams' can represent, and there are quite a few representations. I have put some of them in the attachment.

I have often dreamed of dying, or loosing another person I am close to, yet neither me or the other people have dies (touch wood) lol. So, I would have to go with the concept that dreaming of death perhaps represents the birth of someone/something (new beginning)!

I agree with that a lot, when you have a problem your dreams show it...

I recently had a vivid dream of jumping from a high height into the sea. I didn't intentionally jump to die but knew i would die if i didn't jump. When i hit the sea i felt myself plunge so deep i knew i could never make it back to the surface and realised that i was about to die. I then felt myself stop breathing and i was unable to move i knew that i was dead.

Two days later a good friend came to tell me that she was pregnant.

I think that death in dreams can be related to new life

I've had many near death dreams, but only 2 where I actually died, one, where a giant rock fell on me and my car, barely knew what was coming. And another a few years later where I was shot in the chest, and I distinctly remember thinking that the bullet missed me, but I looked down at my chest and saw I had been shot. I felt a faint feeling and knew I was dying. I "passed out" in my dream and realised I had died...was actually releaved when I woke up. Actually thought I had died.

I too had a dream recently where I was shot. I don't wanna explain the whole thing, but in the dream I was slightly dazed and when I came round someone was pointing a gun at me. There were a few seconds where I realised what was happening and pleaded for my life, then I got shot, simple as that. All I saw was blackness, then I woke up feeling kinda sick.

Maybe someone can help me with this though:

Why do our fears or concerns represent themselves in our dreams as something else. Years ago I used to have dreams about my teeth falling out, only to find out that this particular dream represented a fear of old age or impotence

But it is true, growing old does concern me. No worries with impotence though!

Someone did a post on this earlier, and I admit ive never had any scary or death dreams, but i can relate to you guys, by saying i do believe that sometime down the road a dream will come true, or not so much true but like it means something... its hard to say in words.. but i guess im trying to say that all dreams mean something... most likely not what your dreaming about will happen, but it has a meaning behind it.. =)

i had this weird dream that i was trying to get into a large town, small city to find my dad... i guess. anyways after 10 dreams hours more or less, i'm in the town/city looking and i find my dad. then i bail. everybody is trying to leave the town/city while this space ship showed up and launched a metor like thing at the place, and i'm sprinting. a full all out run and i find myself in a larger version of a field at my home and i look where i was at and saw that the metor was about to hit, and it did. there is huge bone shattering, building destorying even, shock wave, and i get back up, theres a crater leading up to my feet, and i was ok


wether or not this counts, i thought i was going to die there for a moment and i hope nothing like that does happen

I never heard of that myth until I got older...and am living proof that it's not true.
I have died in my dreams twice and each time I saw myself rise from my body - in the dream- and shoot up into 2 different yet similar heavens...actually the entering into part I always awoke with a sense of happiness, but I do remember seeing myself dead as I was floating up...
so it's not true...obviously.

lol I have a dream book and in that it suggests that this symbolises a lack of self esteem or that you are very concious about your appearance, or that someone in your life is making you doubt yourself.

Yeah. I can remember three different dreams where I died and went to the afterlife (Heaven, I guess you could say).
In one, I even became the guide of another less evolved soul who was having trouble dealing with his own death and afterlife.
What happened after death was far more interresting than death itself.