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- From: s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
- Newsgroups: alt.dreams
- Subject: Re: Dead in a Dream Ditch
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 19:10:24 GMT
- Organization: Fachschaft math/inf, Uni Karlsruhe, FRG
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- In article <gj156879.722283943@cunews> gj156879@alfred.carleton.ca ( gj student 156879) writes:
- >From what I've heard, though I've never experienced death in a dream,
- >it is possible to die in a dream and continue dreaming. That is, and
- >not wake up.
-
- I think basically everything is possible in dreams - you can talk to
- G*d or the Dev*l (and not worry about it afterwards), you can split
- yourself into n persons, n>1 :-) etc. etc.
-
- >The closest I've come to a death dream is being lucid, walking around,
- >and a small child with a knife jumped out and threatened me with his
- >blade. I laughed, knowing I was lucid, thinking that the blade
- >wouldn't hurt if he did manage to stab me. Well, he stabbed me and it
- >DID hurt. Go figure. I was annoyed as all hell about that one.
- >
- >Anyone else experience pain in a dream like this?
-
- Well, I've sometimes dreamed about dying, and I'm not only still
- alive, but I've never taken this different from laughing at it. (I've
- always *known* that I was dreaming in that experiences, though it has
- happened before I've got the whole notion about lucidity. Sometimes,
- **in my dreams**, I've considered some means of suicide for the
- purpose of waking up - a bit drastic but it didn't work anyway, and
- I've abandoned the practice ;-)
-
- I can't remember a realistic pain, though.
-
- The only dream I remember in which I was *scared* about death in a
- dream was about a nuclear power plant exploding, but this was not
- really a horror dream though. The real horror dreams are not about
- something physically describable (and fortunately rare - but this is a
- question of attitude too, I'm repeating ad nauseam :-)
-
- olaf
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