Two Thoughts...

First, we've heard it said that if you die in your dreams, you will not die in your sleep, for some have died in their dreams and lived to tell about it. But what about the number of people who die in their sleep? We can't ask them what they were dreaming just before they died!

Second, it's said that we should work on dream recall, else we might have a lucid dream and not remember it in the morning. But if it's a lucid dream, or a conscious dream, won't we remember it as it's happening? Obviously it's not the same as a regular dream which can be lost without the logic part of the brain to keep it in memory.

People who die in their sleep, die for other reasons. If they die in their sleep because they died in their dream, we cannot know. It is simply unexplained and we shouldn't jump to the idea that they died in their sleep because they died in their dream. However, I am curious as to what it would be like for someone who is lucid to die in his/her sleep.

I have also thought about this myself and wondered how anyone who is lucid wouldn't be able to remember that he/she was lucid in the first place. I would at least think if one doesn't remember the dream he/she had, that at least he/she would remember being lucid.

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Originally Posted by Paradox-db3

I have also thought about this myself and wondered how anyone who is lucid wouldn't be able to remember that he/she was lucid in the first place. I would at least think if one doesn't remember the dream he/she had, that at least he/she would remember being lucid.

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No matter how aware you are in a dream your brain is still in sleep mode. Memories created while the brain is asleep are not stored the same way as memories created while it is fully awake. I don't know the specifics of how all this works, but dream memories are easily overwritten. Now if you wake up from a lucid dream it should be very easy to immediately remember that dream and being lucid. But if this occurred early in the night and you return to sleep the memory of that dream and awakening can be easily overwritten by all the dreams that follow.

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Originally Posted by Paradox-db3

But what about the number of people who die in their sleep? We can't ask them what they were dreaming just before they died!

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That's what the autopsy is for. It's not often a person dies in their sleep and no cause of death can be found.

Lucid dreams are easier to recall, but that don't means that we can always recall them easily, after all number of people who aren't into dreaming might have lucid dreams but they don't remember them at all. Also i noticed that some low awareness lucid dreams sometimes can be not so easy to recall fully. :zzz:
As for the first question i agree with others, the reason is something else. :roll:

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Originally Posted by Checker666

Lucid dreams are easier to recall, but that don't means that we can always recall them easily, after all number of people who aren't into dreaming might have lucid dreams but they don't remember them at all. Also i noticed that some low awareness lucid dreams sometimes can be not so easy to recall fully. :zzz:
As for the first question i agree with others, the reason is something else. :roll:

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Well of course the reason is something else! No one "just dies". There's always a reason. And of course, we don't die just because we dreamed we died, but that doesn't mean that people who die in their sleep aren't dreaming of dying as they're actually dying.