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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 10:33:08 CST
- From: C09615DK@wuvmd.wustl.edu
- To: NETNEWS@WUVMD
- Subject: Re: Dying in dreams
- Newsgroups: alt.dreams
- References: <722102872.6101@minster.york.ac.uk>
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- >In article <722102872.6101@minster.york.ac.uk>, ae-a@minster.york.ac.uk says:
- >
- > I have heard somewhere that if you die in your dream, you
- >die in real life. What usually happens to me if I am about
- >to die or hurt myself is that I just wake up. Is this
- >just the result of my heart speeding up or is it an early-
- >warning system in my brain terminating my dream so that I
- >don't convince myself that I'm dead.
- >
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- I believed this for the longest time, too. Actually, I just believed that it
- was impossible to die in your dreams (perhaps the mental trauma of waking up to
- find yourself alive was too much, I don't know why I believed this), but this
- year I asked my Psychology professor about it and he said that it IS possible
- to die in one's dreams.
-
- Go figure. (I still think he's wrong, though)--Dan K
-