If dieng in dreams kills you in life...

[Relmar'd]

Then how would anyone live to tell about it?

Think on that!

[RNR]

I'm an elf so I don't sleep. Ha.

[Akira]

What's with all the awful threads in here lately?

[Relmar'd]

I'm an elf so I don't sleep. Ha.

:lol:

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[Jharaski]

If dieng in dreams kills you in life...

It doesn't

Then how would anyone live to tell about it?


Because you're still alive.

[peeted]

You dont die if you die in a dream. Having said that has anyone actualy died in a dream (as in died and not had some sort of afterlife as part of the dream?)

[PerpetualBurn]

Dying in a dream doesn't kill you...

[thickasabrick]

I've died in a few dreams. I've always woke up alive, from what I can tell.

Mind you, in all my dreams where I've died, I've always came back as a ghost or in the dream I was an outside observer to my own death. Never a first person death where I don't come back as a ghost.

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

i doubt you'd dream about dieing in first person. But much for the brain to cope with.

[metalkingtiger]

I wonder, has there ever been a nutjob that has tried to die and come back to see what it's like and was he/she succesful?

[AmericanWeiner]

I've been decapitated in a dream.

However, I lived on in another body. It was cool seeing them wheel my head and body off in a wheelbarrow.

I wonder, has there ever been a nutjob that has tried to die and come back to see what it's like and was he/she succesful?

It happens quiet often, and the experience often depends on the person's world views and faith. If you are a christian, you may percieve the experience as entering heaven, and if you're secular you may only feel drowsy and fall asleep.

Oddly, enough the same phenomenon happens with sleep paralysis and what I'm going to dub the "haunt effect."

In sleep paralysis, it's very common for the victim to feel like there is a gray humanoid in the room, but the actual form varies from ghosts (in japanese culture, it's very much like the gray girls with black hair in the Grudge) to aliens in America, to goblins in parts of Europe. Strangely, the entities are almost always gray and act generally the same way, but are different in form. Most alien abduction cases have been attributed to this.

In the haunt effect, EMF fields interact with the brain and have been clinically proven to make the subject feel as if there is a ghost, deity, devil or some other spook in the room with them. In all cases, the spook in question in cultural specific.

It's the same way with death. Your brain tries to make sense of what is happening by applying the most available solutions to the problem.

[italic zero]

is Dieng a polluted Chinese river?

[spitfirejunky]

The Dieng has appeared in my dreams several times.

[Otherside]

It happens quiet often, and the experience often depends on the person's world views and faith. If you are a christian, you may percieve the experience as entering heaven, and if you're secular you may only feel drowsy and fall asleep.

Oddly, enough the same phenomenon happens with sleep paralysis and what I'm going to dub the "haunt effect."

In sleep paralysis, it's very common for the victim to feel like there is a gray humanoid in the room, but the actual form varies from ghosts (in japanese culture, it's very much like the gray girls with black hair in the Grudge) to aliens in America, to goblins in parts of Europe. Strangely, the entities are almost always gray and act generally the same way, but are different in form. Most alien abduction cases have been attributed to this.

In the haunt effect, EMF fields interact with the brain and have been clinically proven to make the subject feel as if there is a ghost, deity, devil or some other spook in the room with them. In all cases, the spook in question in cultural specific.

This has happened to me, and even though I live in America I didn't sense an alien. For me it was this completely black figure, but he was so intensely black that he actual showed up through the darkness of my room. I've had this guy in several of my dreams as well, and even though he never takes any action against me, he freaks me out pretty good. Worst was the time where I dreamed that he was leaning over me in bed while I was asleep and was whispering "I'm here, I'm here, I'm here" over and over :(

[coe]

I have died maybe once or twice in my dreams, and every time it's been from an outside perspective. Basically, I watch myself die.

[Pluperfect_Arson]

I've died in a few dreams. I've always woke up alive, from what I can tell.

Mind you, in all my dreams where I've died, I've always came back as a ghost or in the dream I was an outside observer to my own death. Never a first person death where I don't come back as a ghost.

The dreams in which I die in are similar to that. I mean, I have died in first-person, but, as soon as I die, I switch to a third-person view; however, I turn into a ghost, viewing.

In my dreams, though, I can sense what my body is doing in reality, while still being in the dreamscape. It is hard to explain. I can sense my body moving and acting out the actions that are happening in my dream (such as throwing punches, running, etc), but I will still be laying down.

Also, when I am shot, that part of my body turns warm, and it feels as though something has pierced my skin, minus the pain. I was shot in my right shoulder in one dream, and I fell to the ground in it. In reality, though, my entire right shoulder turned warm and felt as though it were soaked in blood. When I woke up, I expected to see blood, but nothing.

I am weird. :(

[AmericanWeiner]

This has happened to me, and even though I live in America I didn't sense an alien. For me it was this completely black figure, but he was so intensely black that he actual showed up through the darkness of my room. I've had this guy in several of my dreams as well, and even though he never takes any action against me, he freaks me out pretty good. Worst was the time where I dreamed that he was leaning over me in bed while I was asleep and was whispering "I'm here, I'm here, I'm here" over and over :(

omg that is so scary :(

[PerpetualBurn]

In the haunt effect, EMF fields interact with the brain and have been clinically proven to make the subject feel as if there is a ghost, deity, devil or some other spook in the room with them. In all cases, the spook in question in cultural specific.

Can I see these clinical trials?

[Dinosawesome]

omg that is so scary :(
*hides behind keyboard*

[gaslight]

Can I see these clinical trials?

I don't have a link to them because I read them a while ago in a news article, but he's not making it up, they have trialed that and the result was a higher percentage of people reacted in that way than they would have by random chance.