Neo: I thought it wasn't real
Morpheus: Your mind makes it real
Neo: If you're killed in the matrix, you die here?
Morpheus: The body cannot live without the mind[/b]

I was thinking, this morning, about this dialogue, from the matrix.

This came up with a rather worrying thought for me. In theory, dreams and the Matrix (the VR simulation, rather than the film) are very similar. They are false realities, thriving in the mind, right? Following this path of logic, one would conclude that perhaps, what 'Morpheus' suggests could be applied to dreams, assuming that the dreamer doesn't know they're in a dream.
I then thought 'Well why doesn't this happen every time we die in a dream?' and thought almost instantly of this common fact that the logical side of the brain being disabled during dreaming, or whatever. I then thought 'But assuming that you were "lucid dreaming" (in the loosest sense) without being conscious that you were lucid dreaming, that is to say, you thought you were still wide awake, but in some life threatening position in the dream, then were killed, and here's the point i've been trying to reach -

Could one die, due to the phenomenon that Morpheus is describing, whilst dreaming?

- I've read about people who've been killed, or atleast, defeated, in their lucid dreams. Mostly I guess people have been aware of dreaming, but perhaps some of you weren't at the time. Could you be saved by being conscious of the dream at a subconsious level?
So many questions!
I mean, assuming that anyone had experienced this as the previous scenario, would have no witness to tell the tale of why he'd died in his sleep! Would it just show up as 'having a stroke during the night' and 'passing away peacefully'?

So many questions