Dreams about dying

[Xocoyotziin]

Anyone else have them? I die in a large percentage of my dreams. They freak me out. Last night I had one where I died, and I ended up on the bottom floor of a hotel with hundreds of floors, "one floor above the darkness", and there were these people whispering to each other and staring at me, saying things like "I heard he killed himself", "how could he even think of doing something like that?". It's so jarring. I wonder if it's my brain rehearsing possible eventualities or if something weirder is going on.

 

[_Kaira_]

I have them often. They feel so surreal. Usually visions of struggling to swim in the middle of the ocean, or walking on the edges of skyscrapers, or just bleeding out. Some dreams I see a potential domino effect that my death could cause to others. I rarely have days with no dreams like that, or just blankness.

 

[WornOutLife]

I can only remember one dream like that.
I died and then a kinda windows' window showed up with some options: one of them was to start over my life, another one to go to some kind of paradise and the last one to start my life in another planet.
I think this happened to me because I read many isekai manga (stories about being reborn or transported to other world lol)

 

[Xocoyotziin]

I have them often. They feel so surreal. Usually visions of struggling to swim in the middle of the ocean, or walking on the edges of skyscrapers, or just bleeding out. Some dreams I see a potential domino effect that my death could cause to others. I rarely have days with no dreams like that, or just blankness.

Yeah dude the ways get so varied. I get in plane crashes, car crashes, murdered, immolated, falling from high places. The pain is never bad but most of the time I can feel the fear and my consciousness fading, then I wake up. Or I'll become a ghost, one time I even morphed into a day of the dead skeleton lady. I have yet to die in a dream from my method of choice (cutting off oxygen supply to the brain), except for almost once when I was being chased by the devil on a space station, and a meteorite punctured the room so oxygen drained out. It was so peaceful but then he plugged the hole, told me I'm not going anywhere and continued torturing me.

@Meditation guide
It feels more like being executed over and over again. It's putting the fear of death in me like some kind of convoluted SI scheme from the depths of my brain.

@WornOutLife
That sounds so nice lol. I want to train my brain to die that way.

 

[Deleted member 94]

Anyone else have them? I die in a large percentage of my dreams. They freak me out. Last night I had one where I died, and I ended up on the bottom floor of a hotel with hundreds of floors, "one floor above the darkness", and there were these people whispering to each other and staring at me, saying things like "I heard he killed himself", "how could he even think of doing something like that?". It's so jarring. I wonder if it's my brain rehearsing possible eventualities or if something weirder is going on.

Dreams come from preoccupations, if you are constantly considering something you will have a dream about it.

 

[Xocoyotziin]

Dreams come from preoccupations, if you are constantly considering something you will have a dream about it.

That makes a lot of sense. And it also makes a lot of sense that I experience such a lack of agency in my dreams because I've fooled myself into believing they own me and not me them. An outside perspective always helps, thanks.

 

[262653]

...when I was being chased by the devil on a space station, and a meteorite punctured the room so oxygen drained out. It was so peaceful but then he plugged the hole, told me I'm not going anywhere and continued torturing me.

Have you ever experienced pain in the dreams? What does torture feel like?

I had some deaths. Mostly falling from heights, mauled by animals a few times, and a nuclear strike. Nearly all my dreams feel like worth experiencing, even dismal and frightening ones.

 

[Xocoyotziin]

Have you ever experienced pain in the dreams? What does torture feel like?

I had some deaths. Mostly falling from heights, mauled by animals a few times, and a nuclear strike. Nearly all my dreams feel like worth experiencing, even dismal and frightening ones.

Not usually. When I do its not nearly as extreme as I imagine it would be in real life. I experience other physical effects though, like paralysis, weakness, dizziness, my body being crushed. So I felt only those effects from it. Absent the pain, the powerlessness I feel is the worst part, you just don't have any ownership over yourself anymore and there's nothing you know how to do to make it stop. Yeah it's starting to sound more and more like a euphemism for my attitude towards life.

They don't feel worthwhile to me, they feel more like obstacles. But the repetition and exhaustion of it might be preventing me from understanding them fully.

Also animals and the ones where there's an antagonist are the worst. I remember one where I tried to pet a penguin and it guzzled down my arm with its razor sharp beak. It didn't kill me though. There's always a contrast between their beauty and their senseless brutality.

Nuclear strike sounds insane. Did you just dissolve in a flash or what?

 

[Deleted member 19654]

I've always wanted to try lucid dreaming where you're aware that you're in the dream world. But lately, I've been having dreams where I'm dying and when I try to scream for help, no sound comes out. It makes me glad that I've never actually tried to lucid dream lol.

 

[TheQ22]

I had a dream I'd taken SN in my car and was sat there feeling it take effect and my heart was pounding really fast. I woke up to discover my heart really was pounding really fast, i don't know if the dream caused the heart issue, or the heart issue caused the dream (been having some odd heart stuff going on, palpitations, racing heart, odd pains, etc).

Got sent to hospital by doctor but unfortunately I'm apparently as healthy as an ox.

 

[Xocoyotziin]

I've always wanted to try lucid dreaming where you're aware that you're in the dream world. But lately, I've been having dreams where I'm dying and when I try to scream for help, no sound comes out. It makes me glad that I've never actually tried to lucid dream lol.

If you're at all into Wikipedia Buddhism I've read that visions experienced while dreaming, while meditating, and while dying are considered to be further entrapments of maya, and to avoid karmic entanglement its best to avoid attachment to them.

It's unscientific but I kind of get where they're coming from when adapted to a more modern mode of thought. It can get pretty weird when you lose control, at first seeming like an escape but then becoming another layer of illusion that you can find yourself believing in and suffering from. Some people are skilled enough to avoid that and use them constructively though.

 

[262653]

Nuclear strike sounds insane. Did you just dissolve in a flash or what?

Oh, it was the most peaceful dream I've ever had! I genuinely believed that I've died, and I can still remember my disappointment after waking up.

The dream setting looked a lot like in a scene from Terminator, where Sarah Connor got reduced to cinders by the heat wave or something, as she was holding at the chain link. It was a sunny day, as bright and scorching as it can realistically get... Ok I really want to sleep now, so more to the point.

I was lying on the ground when I've heard the whistle of what I thought was a bomb, then was explosion. Everything started to get brighter and warmer and I closed my eyes. Then there was only warmness and brightness. The closest analogue to the brightness is when you look at the Sun with your eyes closed. (Bright orange, eyelids pierced by sunlight.) I had no body, and nothing around me... Ok no. I still had a body, but it's as if it didn't had a weight, and it wasn't of a burden to me. My body was filled with warmth to the bones, but it was soothing, not unpleasant. There was the Sun before me, I could look at it without getting blind. It felt as if I'm becoming one with the Sun, as if there were no borders between us. It was the most peaceful experience I can recall, dream or awake.

 

[TheSomebody]

I almost always die in my dreams, but the interesting thing is that when that happens, my consciousness is transferred to someone else, so I start to control them.

Sometimes my horror dreams starts with me being someone else, then some event happens and me(as someone else) end up meeting myself (me from reality).

So the two of us work together to survive and I (from reality) die in a brutal way. It is interesting to see yourself die from someone else's perspective.

I also forgot to say that I am always weak in my dreams, I am always humiliated by someone.

Sometimes, I get immensely angry and end up doing or saying something really bad without thinking. When something dont kill me in my dream, I fuck myself in such a way that I get desperate and kill myself right there. It is good to dream something bad and then wake up from it, but unfortunately we cannot do the same with life.

 

[Xocoyotziin]

I also forgot to say that I am always weak in my dreams, I am always humiliated by someone.

Same. It's like I'm in a trance and I find myself acting totally out of character, or at least what I think my character is. It's pretty awful being bullied by your own mind. Last night I kind of fought back though and woke up feeling good. I think I can partially owe some of that success to the thinking this thread's had me doing.

 

[TheSomebody]

Same. It's like I'm in a trance and I find myself acting totally out of character, or at least what I think my character is. It's pretty awful being bullied by your own mind. Last night I kind of fought back though and woke up feeling good. I think I can partially owe some of that success to the thinking this thread's had me doing.

sometimes I try to fight, but the enemy is always better than me and it doesn't do much good. Sometimes the situation gets so bad that I realize it's a dream, when that happens I become "god" and do what I want

 

[262653]

sometimes I try to fight, but the enemy is always better than me and it doesn't do much good. Sometimes the situation gets so bad that I realize it's a dream, when that happens I become "god" and do what I want

Oh I love gaining awareness in dreams, it feels so empowering to wake up from bullshit experience. It also feels good to wake up from automatically doing things I don't want to in waking state too.

 

[WaterHemlock]

I was getting ready to start a thread asking if people have dreams where they are in the process of killing themselves, or actually had and were wandering the spirit word, trying to make people hear, but I found this thread.
Is it better to start a new one or answer an old one?

I keep dreaming of me prepping for my death.
And one where I hung myself, but stepped out of my body as I died and then just wandered around, a lost angry ghost thinking, well that didn't do any good, now what?

 

[deathbydragon]

I haven't seen any warnings for necroing threads in here, unlike some other places, personally I see no issue with it if it's still topical. I think places that frown on necroing just want to boost the number of threads they have.

There was a time in my life where I ended up dying/killing myself in at least half of the dreams I had, it was constant. It's not happened in a long while though. These days my dreams are about inane bullshit like spoonfeeding a raptor some beans.

 

[lonleycrowdedwest]

Anyone else have them? I die in a large percentage of my dreams. They freak me out. Last night I had one where I died, and I ended up on the bottom floor of a hotel with hundreds of floors, "one floor above the darkness", and there were these people whispering to each other and staring at me, saying things like "I heard he killed himself", "how could he even think of doing something like that?". It's so jarring. I wonder if it's my brain rehearsing possible eventualities or if something weirder is going on.

I have dreams of killing myself often recently, I wake up upon death and cant sleep after, usually around 4 am.

I was getting ready to start a thread asking if people have dreams where they are in the process of killing themselves, or actually had and were wandering the spirit word, trying to make people hear, but I found this thread.
Is it better to start a new one or answer an old one?

I keep dreaming of me prepping for my death.
And one where I hung myself, but stepped out of my body as I died and then just wandered around, a lost angry ghost thinking, well that didn't do any good, now what?

Yes i dream of suicide often, its kind of annoying because I wae up confused and very weirded out.