Okay, so I'm not the first to discuss this...but the last decent thread was 2007.

I died in a dream, and that's not necessarily abnormal. What I want to know is how people experienced that death.

In my dream I experienced organ failure, lack of breath, screaming "NO!" and successively losing volume, and the vision fading and closing in on me as I fell backwards (after having my chest blown out with a shotgun placed directly against my body) and literally "died."

My dream did not continue after I died. I did wake up after everything went black.

Have you experienced a realistic death? How did it happen?

And did you learn anything about yourself from this dream?