Originally posted by Kitti
well i am not sure if its true orr not but one of my friends told me that if you dont wake up by the time you hit the ground in a falling dream you can die. I have had a dream where i was falling and i have always woken up right before i fell. But here i am right now alive!...... i wonder if thats why some people die in their sleep.
No! In fact, one time a very great Sad Guru of my dream acquaintance found me at a Dream Cocktail Party in a Penthouse Suite and he took me by the arm and we both jumped out of the window together. I would have 'pulled up' into flight, but he firmly held my arm so that we could certainly plunge into the ground, and that is what we did -- we plunged into the ground as though it were water and I could actually see the different layers of soil, clay and rock go by, and eventually the Guru allowed me to pull up and fly out of the ground. So falling is no problem.

And dream death is no problem as I have been 'momentarily' killed many times in dreams. One is never dead for more than 20 or 30 seconds at the most, and then one simply gets up. After some practice with it, one simply isn't fooled any longer by Dream Death and you just keep going no matter what happens.

so, remember, whenever you have the lucky opportunity in a dream to face Death, do it. Your inevitable survival will simply give you that much more greater courage for later.