i saw myself die in my sleep

Shak2005 · 14/07/11 - 18:57

yesterday i had a nightmare and saw myself fall from somewhere. i didnt see or recognise where i am but i saw myself fall down from a skyscraper and before i hit the ground i woke up frigthened out of my mind. cud this a sign i'm coming to the end of my life?:eek:

Jimmy the Gent · 14/07/11 - 18:57

Yes I think it probably is.

camer · 14/07/11 - 18:59

Its a sign of bad mushrooms:D

Mint · 14/07/11 - 18:59

I've had loads of near death experience dreams but I'm still alive. Don't worry about it.

queenshaks · 14/07/11 - 19:01

Was it eating too much pizza?

Leeham · 14/07/11 - 19:01

I once hallucinated that a 1940s nurse injected an air bubble in my vein to kill me, I sat in bed scared shitless because I thought I was really about to die.

When I can't sleep for months at a time, I start hallucinating when I can't quite drop off.

flowerpowa · 14/07/11 - 19:01

You are not alone, thousands of people have the same dream, night after night, after night. Ain't it scary.

droogiefret · 14/07/11 - 19:02

If you want to attach meaning to it then death is usually taken to signify new beginnings. So it would be a good thing.

SJ_Mental · 14/07/11 - 19:08

I used to have a dream like that, But it was a lift shaft. I would wake up with a jump as I hit the bottom.

flowerpowa · 14/07/11 - 19:11

SJ_Mental wrote: »

I used to have a dream like that, But it was a lift shaft. I would wake up with a jump as I hit the bottom.

I think we all do that, if you hit the bottom, you are dead.

_ben · 14/07/11 - 19:13

Shak2005 wrote: »

before i hit the ground i woke up

Then you didn't see yourself die

[Deleted User] · 14/07/11 - 19:30

I've only had a "falling" dream a couple times... to my memory that is. Yesterday I was dreaming that there I was among a huge group of people walking between a carriageway in extremely slow moving traffic, but coming from dead ahead off a roundabout, a large TNT van drove down the middle of the carriageway and... then I woke up. Meaningless, pointless dream!

[Deleted User] · 14/07/11 - 19:59

I saw myself burn to death in a dream after the Russians nuked us. I think I'd just watched Threads though. I proper died though (in the dream).

I once confided to a friend that I had a repeating dream of being a flying super hero but the only the problem was I couldn't take off - I would kind of bounce along the ground trying to fly. What was kinda funny was he said he used the have the exact same dream. Must mean something...

Stefano92 · 14/07/11 - 20:04

Had around 12 of these dreams. It's creepy, but it doesn't mean you will die, don't worry

I had one recently where I suffocated in a cell with no oxygen, trying to get out, and then I saw myself in another body looking down at the "dead" me, with maggots all over my face feasting on me.
That was the worst experience, it was a dream 4 years ago and still haunts me to this day. Shouldn't have watched Bad Girls.

Deb Arkle · 14/07/11 - 20:10

Chocdoc wrote: »

I saw myself burn to death in a dream after the Russians nuked us. I think I'd just watched Threads though. I proper died though (in the dream).

I once confided to a friend that I had a repeating dream of being a flying super hero but the only the problem was I couldn't take off - I would kind of bounce along the ground trying to fly. What was kinda funny was he said he used the have the exact same dream. Must mean something...

I was shot by Hitler in a dream once, I was floating above my dead body and I could see the bullet holes & blood. So yes, I dream-died too.

And that bouncy flying thing - I used to have that all the time! I assumed it was due to feeling trapped, as in the dream you're being chased & can't escape. (I don't have that dream any more

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Carlos_dfc · 14/07/11 - 21:03

Shak2005 wrote: »

cud this a sign i'm coming to the end of my life?:eek:

No!
There's nothing supernatural about dreams, and they can't foretell the future either.
They're just unconscious manifestations of what's going through your mind at the time - any correlation between a dream, and a random future event, is just coincidence.

Carlos_dfc · 14/07/11 - 21:07

Deb Arkle wrote: »

And that bouncy flying thing - I used to have that all the time! I assumed it was due to feeling trapped, as in the dream you're being chased & can't escape. (I don't have that dream any more )

Falling, flying (inc. 'bouncy' flying) and inability to run away, are all common dreams

When I used to do a lot of cycling, I was always dreaming of falling off my bike, or falling then swooping up and flying.

[Deleted User] · 14/07/11 - 21:17

I heard that when you sleep ocassionally your heart slows down a bit too much therefore, your brain makes you have dreams that shock you into waking up to get your heart going again! How cool is that!

jioscar · 14/07/11 - 21:21

I have had a similar experience i left my body and was looking down at myself just laying there

[Deleted User] · 14/07/11 - 21:22

you think thats scary OP, wait till you experience sleep paralysis!!!!! when i have an 'episode' im shaken for days after

[Deleted User] · 14/07/11 - 21:37

Carlos_dfc wrote: »

Falling, flying (inc. 'bouncy' flying) and inability to run away, are all common dreams

When I used to do a lot of cycling, I was always dreaming of falling off my bike, or falling then swooping up and flying.

I'd like to know what that is supposed to signify as I get that one quite a bit.

corporatemedia · 14/07/11 - 21:45

you think thats scary OP, wait till you experience sleep paralysis!!!!! when i have an 'episode' im shaken for days after

Sleep paralysis is pretty freaky especially the hallucinations.

[Deleted User] · 14/07/11 - 21:52

Mint wrote: »

I've had loads of near death experience dreams but I'm still alive. Don't worry about it.

Me too, its pretty scary when it happens tho

I also have reoccurring dreams about horrible things happening to those I love...they're the worst...but being a typical bloke my OH things he has it worst...getting no sleep while I scream, shout n throw myself around the bed :rolleyes:

Phoenix Lazarus · 14/07/11 - 21:53

Leeham wrote: »

I once hallucinated that a 1940s nurse injected an air bubble in my vein to kill me, I sat in bed scared shitless because I thought I was really about to die.

When I can't sleep for months at a time, I start hallucinating when I can't quite drop off.

You seem very precise about the date, there. Was she humming Vera Lynn, Glen Miller or George Formby, or moaning about, the, "bleedin' war and bloody Hitler!" while she was trying to do you in!?

[Deleted User] · 14/07/11 - 21:56

corporatemedia wrote: »

Sleep paralysis is pretty freaky especially the hallucinations.

i have had this since i was about 14 (puberty age i guess) but its only after my mums passed i have been getting the hallucinations, terrifying.

MikeJW · 14/07/11 - 22:06

I once died in a dream. I was shot in the chest, but the shock of that didn't wake me up. Oddly, it didn't hurt, either. I was rocked by the impact, looked down, saw this black-red mess, and thought "what now?"

Nothing happened for a moment.

Then, it was like I'd somehow forgotten how to breathe. It wasn't automatic any more. I had to force one breath, another, a third. Then I collapsed . Then everything went white. And then I woke up.

That's still the most disturbing dream I've ever had, because it wasn't the usual "wake up before you hit the ground" thing. It took time for me to die, and it felt plausible, like that's what might really happen. Fortunately it was also a one-off, though, and I've never dreamt anything quite like that since.

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