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      I dont get it how can you hold your breathe in real life and pass out? When I feel like I cant breathe anymore I take in a breath of air. But are you saying you have enough self control to actually keep it in for so long that you actually pass out? If so that is mighty crazy.

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      i tried holding my breath in my dream but i continued to breathe, it seems that ur breathing in ur dream is connected to ur sleeping body's automatic breathing cycle

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      So if your real body was to stop breathing then in your dream you would stop breathing and therefore die wow kind of a scary thought if you think about it.

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      Originally posted by Lucid83
      i tried holding my breath in my dream but i continued to breathe, it seems that ur breathing in ur dream is connected to ur sleeping body's automatic breathing cycle
      Did you actually try to hold your breath though? Not just pinch your nose, etc..
      If so, I guess it's individual
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      yes i tried holding but then i started to breathe again

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      Originally posted by Lucid83
      yes i tried holding but then i started to breathe again
      Hmm interesting. Anybody else have this?
      It might be specific to some people then?
      Or maybe when I hold my breath in the dream, it only FEELS incredibly like I am going to pass out

      EDIT: I just remembered another interesting LD I had... I was non-lucid and walking next to a pond when some ducks pushed me in. The water was freezing and I gasped, and became lucid. At that very moment my wife woke me up because my breathing was scaring her.

      Interesting eh?
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      I'm back, and this thread is still alive , I think if you do hold your breath in a dream it woun't kill you might get less consciencess which is why you might start breathing again because you lost your focus.



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      I once had a dream that I was underwater and I was holding my breath, but I was also doing it in real life as well. This caused me to wake up in distress trying to get my breath back...

      In another dream I was drinking something but when I tried to breath back out I couldn't. At the same time that I was having this dream I could feel my body in real life. So I was half sleeping I guess you could say. Again I was holding my breath in real life although this time it wad worse than the other dream.. I don't know if this will keep happening but it really is scaring me.. :/

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      As others have said, you cannot die from holding your breath. As carbon dioxide builds up in your bloodstream and your blood becomes increasingly acidotic, sensors in your carotid bodies and elsewhere compel you to breathe. Since your dream body has no such sensors, arguably you could hold your breath with no consequences, and no drive to breathe. Obviously, your dream body cannot "die" in the sense that its life is extinguished, as it does not rely on oxygen for it's existence.

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      According to Dr. Stephen LaBerge it is possible to hold your breath in a dream.

      If you held your breath for too long in a dream I imagine you would wake up from the lack of oxygen to your brain.
      Last edited by Arnov; 01-29-2015 at 10:12 PM. Reason: spelling

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      I had a dream recently where I was in a bus that got submerged into water. There were two "levels" of holding your breath when we were under the surface. The first level wqas just holding breath. The second level was like there was this "impulse" that yI wanted to breath, but I wanted to clear the part and I kep on holding. Then the bus climbed up to the surface again. This happened twice in a row. I think I held breath for 15 seconds each time. I wonder what it was all about and if I really held my breath IWL too. Weird.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Tornado Joe View Post
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      Not unless you had Sleep Apnea - but I think that's more of a physical condition.


      I've noticed many times that if I have to pee really bad in a dream, I go to the bathroom (in the dream) and once I'm done I feel fine. But then after a few seconds I have to go again, so I go, then the whole process repeats itself until I wake up and finally do go ... in the bathroom, of course!

      Why this relates? Well, I'm guessing that my mind knows the feeling of bladder relief so it puts it in my dream making me THINK that I'm fine. Then my body signals again to the brain saying "dude, ya gotta go!". So something similar is probably happening with breathing. You know what holding your breath feels like so that memory kicks in through your dream. But you're probably breathing the whole time.

      That being said, I have noticed a couple times dreaming that I was suffocating and waking up trying to breathe through a really stuffed up nose. So physical can effect mental, but not vice versa?

      Huh, Happened once. I had to go pee too in the dream but then when I woke up in RL I had to go... Again. But that only happened once It never pop back up again this time.


      For me I had not held my breath in a dream before, I rarely even do checks while lucid dreaming, But I guess I can try it next time. I just never noticed I am breathing just know I can see and feel and move but that's it.
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