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- From: joi@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (JMM)
- Subject: Re: Dying in dreams
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 06:05:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.060539.2204@cbnewsc.cb.att.com>
- References: <722102872.6101@minster.york.ac.uk> <92324.103305C09615DK@wuvmd.wustl.edu>
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- In article <92324.103305C09615DK@wuvmd.wustl.edu> C09615DK@wuvmd.wustl.edu writes:
- >>
- >>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.
- >>
- >[.sig deleted]
- >
- >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
-
- Well, since I've died in my dreams at least twice and am here to tell you
- about it, I think he's right. If you really think about it, how could
- anyone tell you definitively that if you die in your dream you'll die in
- real life? Obviously, if that were true the dead person couldn't tell you,
- and that would leave the cause of death to be mere speculation.
-
- Now, if someone with a very bad heart condition died in his/her dream,
- perhaps the shock would cause actual death.
-
- In my case, I died, and woke with the realization that by gosh, I'm still
- alive. Another time I died in my dream and *in the dream* passed into
- another existence.
-
- Joy Metcalf
-