I wanted to reply to Frogza's dream and also have a few things I want to say about my beliefs, but scrolling down and reading everyone's post, I am at IC3's post, and I just want to put this down before my thoughts get all jumbled and I forget..
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Originally Posted by IC3
So is it true that if you die in your dream that you actually die? I use to always have re-occuring nightmares of falling off of the same cliff and right before i hit the ground, I would wake up.
It's just wierd how i have never died in a dream and i always wake up before i do.
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I believe in that. What happens is, when you actually die in your dream (usually it's impact) your body is shocked into thinking that it is dying, hence, your brain tells you to stop breathing. So you dream yourself dying, your body goes into convulsion, half fighting to wake up and breathe, half telling itself to stop all mechanisms and die, then you die, fully conscious.
I have had a distant family member who used to always complain about recurring dreams about falling and knew he would die on impact but always waking up before he actually hits.. he died one day in his sleep. The doctor said it's a heart attack, he was in his 40s with no health issues.. I believe that it was the dream. Since then, I've been consciously reminding myself to always wake up if a dream goes wrong. I ALWAYS have bad dreams. :\