Thread: Scary dream of death.

I had a dream the other night, and in the dream at some point I died. I remember being old. I was in bed, looking over and seeing some people who were younger than me and close (I guess future family line). I remember thinking how my time was up, and I was ready for whatever was next...

So darkness slowly settled in, and at some point something just "clicked" and all was black. I could feel time really speed up - it was on odd feeling but if you could feel the world around you go in super fast forward - that's what happened. 500 years... 1000, 1million, as the seconds my point of view went by.

During this, I felt as if I was being pulled deeper and deeper into blackness, all around me. I felt emotionless at first, just waiting. But soon I realized nothing was happening. I was not waiting for an after-life this entire time. I was more or less waiting for the universe to re-collapse onto itself, to cause a new Big Bang, and a new universe - whether it be different or exactly identical to the one I live in now. But nothing was happening... I could not move, I could not do anything... I could barely even think. I was practically nothing. Maybe the present universe came to end by an icy death instead of re-collapse, but it did not matter at this point.

For a few seconds, I became "lucid" and considered the possibility that I just had a dream, and was a deep case of sleep paralysis. This was the case obviously, but it was deeper than I had ever experienced. I had zero contact with the physical world around me. Usually I know when I am in sleep paralysis. I usually maintain a very slight connection to everything around, but this time was not the case. I panicked. I thought what was happening was real. The more I struggled, the more I was being pulled into blackness. I was completely trapped and helpless. At some point I got completely lost it all, and woke up.

Terrifying...

So there it is. That is my fear of death. To lose existence yet somehow be aware of it. Contradictory and even scientifically impossible from what we know yes, but that is it. First time I had a dream like this, and hopefully the last!