Thread: Death in LDs?

You can wake up, become non-lucid, just get out of the dream body and watch from a different perspective, change to a new scene, nothing happens, just so many options. For me it means something similar to regular death.

Originally Posted by Hukif

You can wake up, become non-lucid, just get out of the dream body and watch from a different perspective, change to a new scene, nothing happens, just so many options. For me it means something similar to regular death.

Ok, thanks!

Yeah, it all depends on you, really. Sometimes you'll wake up, sometimes you'll have a FA, sometimes you'll end up in hell or heaven or something. I've been to heaven and hell after dying in dreams.

I can't die in my dreams, I've been shot, sliced, stabbed, dismembered, nothing seems to kill me. It just pisses me off. Odd..

When I die in dreams I will either have a false awakening, go "unconscious" and wake up, or have time reverse itself to when I was alive again. Dying in a dream can really hurt sometimes, but not nearly as much as really being shot or stabbed.

Originally Posted by HoodedPianist

Hey guys, just had a question about lucid dreams, what happens if you die in a lucid dream? Do you wake up, or does something else happen?

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes nothing really happens. Sometimes your view changes to the third person. Lots of different things can happen. There is no hard rule about what happens when you die considering you can't actually die in dreams.

Dreams are unpredictable; it is our expectations that drives the results of something that occurs in a dream. If you expect to wake up, you will; if you expect to enter an afterlife-type dream, you will. If you think of nothing as you "die", anything can happen because you aren't mentally telling the dream to go a certain direction: what your subconscious believes will happen after dying could take place, and this could be absolutely anything. I'm sure that the chances of actually waking up upon death also may have something to do with how light a sleeper one is, but that's just an untested guess.

I've been shot by a huge electric eel with electricity in a non lucid and just felt a tingling sensation, I've also been shot in the head in a non lucid by an ape overlord. I just went into another dream after that. That dream was weird.

It's weird, because even in a non-lucid situation, I'll somehow find a "loophole" to not die. For instance, one dream I was in the middle of a zombie apocalypse and I got bitten, but instead of dying I said, "Oh wait, I have superpowers." I then flew off and had an adventure.

I've been shot with a bullet before in a non lucid and I had a lucid the other night and my alarm radio went off and my brother turned into a zombie and killed me, I woke up after the dream it was pretty wicked, There are other times in non lucids where I got shot by an arrow and I woke up after that and felt the pain in my back. Pretty weird don't you think?

I've died and became a ghost. It's rather unpleasant, actually. Although I basically just became this being that floated through everything and I was all whispy.

If I became a ghost in an ld I would like haunt my friends. That'd be cool.

I once had a lucid where i was trying to convince some DCs that I wasnt lying to them about the dream-world and they said the only way i could prove it was by killing myself. So i summoned a gun and shot myself in the face. Upon waking up i felt like id got one up on them haha, hopefully they will listen next time! (I also felt a bit relieved, it was a very everyday kind of scene with good friends of mine)

I always wake up or have an FA. Fun.

Interesting thread...I have had LD and non LD's where I was shot, stabbed, even had my limbs torn off by a demon- crazy creepy stuff. My questions is when something similar happens to you guys is it extremely painful?

For me it is torturous pain. I have always wondered if others felt severe pain as I have (pain being a subjective thing).

Love this forum-

I think its clear already by the above posts that the results vary.

Everything and nothing can happen in a lucid dream. One size fits one.

I've died once in a non-lucid dream, and I just became a ghost. Didn't wake up (as suggested in "Inception") or anything..

Originally Posted by Evy

^ That is strange lol! I had something similar where I was shot in the head when I woke up I had a headache! I think most of the time when I die in a lucid dream - I get moved to another another situation/place, where I'm alive again...like a different level or something?

I once got impaled through the stomach with a large pole, then when I woke up after dying I felt pain in the area until I started moving around. I guess if dreams are intense enough the feeling can overlap into reality for a couple seconds.

Originally Posted by Plathix

I once got impaled through the stomach with a large pole, then when I woke up after dying I felt pain in the area until I started moving around. I guess if dreams are intense enough the feeling can overlap into reality for a couple seconds.

Uh-oh...one time I impaled a guy in a dream with a large pole....

You weren't working with a bunch of Agent Smiths at the time, were you?

Originally Posted by Plathix

I once got impaled through the stomach with a large pole, then when I woke up after dying I felt pain in the area until I started moving around. I guess if dreams are intense enough the feeling can overlap into reality for a couple seconds.

Ooh yes I've done that before too.

I got shot in the arm and it really hurt, I woke up and I could still feel it, I had to move and rub the area to make it disappear. Freaked me out. :u

So many different things can happen when you die in a dream, it's really interesting to think about

I think most of the posts from this thread already show the diversity of what can happen - but really you can shape it into whatever you want. I had some of my most memorable dreams where I've been chased, almost died or really died!

yea many different things can happen when you die in a dream whether its lucid or not. Usually the dream will either end, and a new one will begin, or you will just wake up, sometimes you don't even die even if you do something that normally should kill you.

I never seem to die in dream unless its by falling! And when i do die i just wake up or go into another dream.

So far I've been run over by cars and a rhino sized lizard, some times i resurrect out of the shattered body and stand out of it till i pull myself out. other times i just teleport to the side and remote view my old self. In some instances, like with the lizard, I actually felt every bone get crushed and sometimes i feel when a blade cuts me. depends on the dreamers association with those pains. if you've never died you don't know what it's like so your dream death would be random ideas you associate with death, pain however is varied by experience, I've been trampled and cut and stabbed so i knew what i would feel. Ignoring pain is easy, especially if you don't see the damage take place, but "feeling" is a bit rare so i don't avoid it for study sake.