When you die in a dream, do you die in real life, too

Is it true that if you die in your dream, you will die in real li…?

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Death dreams are symbolic, (as are most dreams.) Death in a dream represents change and is not a prediction of your own physical death. Your unconscious mind is try to help you deal with some change that means leaving the old behind and sta…

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Is it true if you die in a dream you die in real life?

Q: I’ve heard that if you die in a dream you really die in real life. Of course everyone has bad dreams where they start to die but wake up before it actually happens. But I’ve recently heard something about a guy dying from a bad dream. I know this is kind of a random question but i wanted to kno

A: yep … i died in my dream and woke up dead. what?..it’s true

Die in sleep/dream = die in real life?

Q: How many of you think that if you die in your sleep/dreams, you die in real life?

A: I had this period of two months where every night I dreamed that I died. Mind you, these weren’t just your average dreams. They were all different and VERY creative. The first one involved Hannah Montana strangling me, and I woke up with my hands clutching my throat. A little lack of sleep paralysis there.But that was about a year ago and I’m still kicking, so. Everyone dies eventually.

When you die in a dream do you die in real life?

Q: I know, it a silly question, but I don’t understand how people think this is true? I mean, how do you know for sure?

A: no, but heres an interesting tidbit about dying in your dreams…The vast majority of people who report dying in their dreams watch their own death from a third person perspective. They are standing “outside” themselves and watching as their body expires.The psychological reasoning behind this is that the psyche not only has no experience of death in a first-hand sense, the psyche is also compelled to survive, so this is actually a “derogatory” experience to the psyche. So, the adaptation to this kind of input is to move perspective to the third person. By watching yourself die, you have made a fundamental shift in identity.. you are no longer the person dying, you are the person watching you die.Watching another being die is something we can all relate to, and is an ingrained pattern on our collective unconscious. We have vast amounts of experience compiled with regards to watching others die throughout mankind’s history, and this fits a comfortable and acceptable symbol for dealing with psychological forces that revolve around personal death.Veeeery rarely does someone experience dying in a dream in a first-person perspective. In these cases, there have been accounts of foreshadowing, experiencing your own death in a dreamstate prior to the event happening. This is all very uncommon, to the point of questioning its validity.