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- From: kekamins@zeno26.math.UWaterloo.ca (kekaminsky)
- Subject: Re: Dying in dreams
- Message-ID: <By1Bv2.334@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Summary: myth?
- Sender: news@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <722102872.6101@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:01:50 GMT
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- In article <722102872.6101@minster.york.ac.uk> ae-a@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
- >
- > 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.
- >
-
- I think this is a myth about dying in your dreams. I 'die' frequently
- in my dreams, but in a sense I still continue- I usually become
- a detached observer of the subsequent events. None of these are
- vivid enough so that I see any ramifications of my death, if any.
-
- For example if someone hacks me up, I am initially terrified, but it doesn't
- hurt, and after a second because of the instability of the dream,
- the person or thing either is hacking up an inanimate object (me?),
- or is attempting to hack with a frisbee or some other 'useless' object.
-
- Kirk
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