WDWSwashbuckler
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Darrel, this is one reason why you're not married... just kidding... :lol: :lol:
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What do you dream about?
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Lovecraft
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Someone taught you that in a psych class? It sounds a very flimsy teaching. First let me state why I think this is false logically, then I will tell you how it is false empirically. So you do not have to be frightened of this anymore.
Logically it is false because if, let's say for instance, someone HAD died in their sleep because of a dream, how is anyone else to know what the content of his or her dream was? I mean, that person supposedly sied because he dreamt of dying right? Who did he tell the dream to? Same thing for a coma, unless of course the person comes to and reports of dreaming of death after being awoken. And for the coma victim I would surmise a reported dream of death was caused by the coma itself rather than vice versa.
Now for empirical evidence to ease your mind. I have dreamt of my own death several times. I have experienced (at least what my perception of it is) the sensation of death in my dreams, sometimes by injury sometimes by disease and once by drowning. In each case I did not awaken from the dream, but rather experienced either a void, coming back as a spectre or otherwise being dead after the death (watching my own funeral in one very sad and morose dream).
The fact that I am writing this to you today shows that dying in your dream will not place you in a coma or cause you to will yourself to death, unless I am the exception to the rule -- which may be the case as none of my family or friends have dreamt of dying that they can remember. But still, the frequency with which I have had these dreams should say that at the very least MOST of the time (if not all) someone dreams of dying, they suffer no real death or coma from it.
--Lovecraft
Lovecraft
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This is another thing that happens with me. If I dream that I am falling, it goes to its natural conclusion, unless I realize I am dreaming in which case I just fly instead. (I used to practice techniques of lucid dreaming but it became too addictive so I stopped -- but I can still do it pretty much at will if I decide to before I go to sleep).
Whenever I have a falling dream, I fall, and I hit the bottom (if it doesn't turn into a flying dream). AND it hurts like hell!
I have never dreamt that I died from a falling dream though -- I thought I was going to in one dream and it hurt like crazy. It felt like every bone in my body was broken as I was on the ground and I remember thinking "Wow, I am still alive" and I started trying to crawl away when, in this particular dream, it felt like a big invisible hand grabbed me, lifted me back up higher and DROPPED me so I fell again from a greater height. At this point in the dream (I can't believe I didn't realize I was dreaming here) I thought "Oh hell, now I AM going to die". I hit the ground again, it hurt AGAIN and I could barely even crawl this time and there was blood in my eyes so I could hardly see. I thought "I cannot believe THAT didn't kill me" and started to half crawl when I was lifted AGAIN. In my dream I started laughing and saying out loud "Yeah go ahead! You can hurt me but you cant kill me! HA HA HA! I can take the pain!"
Then, it felt like I was THROWN at the ground, and MAN did it hurt when I hit bottom and I thought to myself "Ok, that REALLY hurt, I can't take the pain anymore" and I woke up.
Weird huh?
disney_nutter
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Me i usally dream about women. But have also had one with IASW dolls in it. Have also dreamt of being a rock star.
mkepcotmgmak
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i am not a scientist, nor do i still have my psychology book to tell you why this happens... it also doesn't happen frequently at all - it is just something that CAN happen... and like i said - my professor said it could also be due to having a heart attack in your sleep if the dying dream is very realistic... it doesn't happen to everyone though... i have had dreams of falling before, and i think one where i hit the ground - i was ok though... it is just a possibility of something that can happen-
and they pretty much can monitor your dreams now - they have really cool sciency things to do that with - if you have to have it done... (i don't think it shows what you are dreaming - just what areas of your brain are working the hardest, and they can tell how intense it is for you)
mkepcotmgmak
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women and iasw dolls... does life get any better? :lol:
Steamboat_Kevin
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Oh yeah, sorry, lol. I forgot.
*hugs Josh* See? I don't hate you! :lol:
Lovecraft
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I don't doubt a heart attack could happen during sleep (it happens) and that probably especially intense dreams could cause it -- but only to someone predisposed to heart attacks.
Like someone who is in danger of heart attack anyway.
My most intense dreams have not been nightmares though, they have been of s e x.
Like someone who is in danger of heart attack anyway.
My most intense dreams have not been nightmares though, they have been of s e x.
SirNim
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I had a dream that my pet rabbit (you know, my beloved widdle bunny) had human legs and was lying on the floor of our TV room just as he normally does but instead of two cute little rabbit legs his legs were as long and as thick as human legs... (and he was wearing jeans)... Although, he didn't have human feet - he still had his rabbit feet, but they were perched precariously at the bottom of these two immense human legs that protruded from his body three times his body length..
It was so cute!
It was so cute!
SirNim
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I see that by submitting this bit o' information, I killed this discussion... :lol:Originally posted by SirNim
I had a dream that my pet rabbit (you know, my beloved widdle bunny) had human legs and was lying on the floor of our TV room just as he normally does but instead of two cute little rabbit legs his legs were as long and as thick as human legs... (and he was wearing jeans)... Although, he didn't have human feet - he still had his rabbit feet, but they were perched precariously at the bottom of these two immense human legs that protruded from his body three times his body length..
It was so cute!
Legacy
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I firmly believe that a lot of my dreams are actually windows into the future. I know it sounds insane,but I routinely will experience deja vu about three times a month. Maybe it's my mind playing tricks on me but it is very real (and quite disturbing).
I have dreamt of getting shot in the back of the head before, and that one hurt like crazy. Didn't kill me though...
I have weird, frighteningly real dreams.
:lookaroun
Please don't shun me because I'm strange...
I have dreamt of getting shot in the back of the head before, and that one hurt like crazy. Didn't kill me though...
I have weird, frighteningly real dreams.
:lookaroun
Please don't shun me because I'm strange...
mkepcotmgmak
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Originally posted by tigsmom
you hate the wizard of oz? :fork:
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right back atchya!
tigsmom
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Originally posted by mkepcotmgmak
you hate the wizard of oz? :fork:
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I never said hate , thats such a strong word...dislike.
(the witches castle is here in NY...not too far from my house...in the middle of the Hudson River. Bannerman's Castle & island are in disrepair, but tours still run a few times a year.
http://www.hudsonvalleyruins.org/yasinsac/bannerman/bannerman.html
mkepcotmgmak
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-- wow - thanks for that link - i had no idea that her castle was a real one... that is so awesome - i take it that it is on a real island that is now closed?
Shaman
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Some believe that we often see glimpses of our past lives in our dreams...I have talked to many people who have had dreams that they have died...some describe themselves as looking different and being in a different time
....like a woman I know she said she was an old man in the old west...in the dream she walks into a bar, sweating profusely, and asks for a drink, then she grabs her chest and dies from a heart attack....another person once described to me that they had dreamed of dying in a burning car...had awoken and saw their arm still burning after the dream (though it wasn't really burning)....
Dreams are very interesting things to study....some don't believe in past lives or in reincarnation but perhaps thats the explanation to some of the more bizarre dreams....
I once had a dream I was in this wooded area and as I looked in the distance at the horizon I saw heard and saw a bomb explode in the distance, then I saw a huge mushroom cloud I turned and felt this immense heat on my back....then I woke up.....at first I thought it was near where I lived...but as I thought I didn't remember seeing houses in the dream...so it was in a strange wooded area.....
If anyone is interested in the whole past lives stuff, I've been doing some research on the subject for something I'm writing...someone recommended that I read this book: Many Lives, Many Masters By: Dr. Brian Weiss.....don't know if any of this past lives stuff is true...but hey it was an interesting read if anything....
Goodnight, sleep tight everyone! MUAHAHAHAHAHA....:lookaroun
EthylCooper
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The only dream I've ever died in was very futuristic....so it wasn't a reincarnation thing. But it was really cool. I died, but I remained around as a ghost. The coffin was a clear capsule, and I saw it moving through a chute (like one of those office or bank things, but with water) below the floor. The floor above the chute was clear so you could see the capsules moving past. I followed my capsule to where they were having my service and watched...tried to move something and give them a sign that I was there, but couldn't get anything to move. It wasn't scary or sad...just kinda cool.
I haven't died in any other dreams....usually, if someone dies in them it's because I've killed them! I virtually never have nightmares (lifetime total=4, and you'd laugh if you heard them!) but I do seem to dream of killing people a good bit. I killed 28 at a ski resort in one dream....in ones and twos and threes, mostly. In real life I can't even stomach the thought of killing a cow for a burger, so I guess my brain gets out my natural violence in other ways. :lol:
I had a really strange falling dream once (AFAIK, my only falling dream). I saw the dream from 4 different points of view, and 3 of them at once during one part! I was a man on a glass elevator, his wife, a young woman, and woman next to the pool about 40 floors below. While I was on the elevator I was the man, then the wife, then both at the same time. Then I was both of them and the young woman as the young woman jumped from the roof and I both saw myself fall from both pairs of elevator eyes *and* saw the pool below me as I was falling. Then I was the woman by the pool but still the woman falling and I saw myself fall into the pool as I fell in. Then I was just the woman in the pool. I can't put into words what it was like to see 3 POVs at once. Has anyone else out there had this kind of dream?
I haven't died in any other dreams....usually, if someone dies in them it's because I've killed them! I virtually never have nightmares (lifetime total=4, and you'd laugh if you heard them!) but I do seem to dream of killing people a good bit. I killed 28 at a ski resort in one dream....in ones and twos and threes, mostly. In real life I can't even stomach the thought of killing a cow for a burger, so I guess my brain gets out my natural violence in other ways. :lol:
I had a really strange falling dream once (AFAIK, my only falling dream). I saw the dream from 4 different points of view, and 3 of them at once during one part! I was a man on a glass elevator, his wife, a young woman, and woman next to the pool about 40 floors below. While I was on the elevator I was the man, then the wife, then both at the same time. Then I was both of them and the young woman as the young woman jumped from the roof and I both saw myself fall from both pairs of elevator eyes *and* saw the pool below me as I was falling. Then I was the woman by the pool but still the woman falling and I saw myself fall into the pool as I fell in. Then I was just the woman in the pool. I can't put into words what it was like to see 3 POVs at once. Has anyone else out there had this kind of dream?