Dying in Dreams

[Spartytime8]

Is it possible to sleep after dying in a dream? Everytime I die I wake up immediately before i fall to my death or something. Do u always wake up or can you just sleep w/o dreaming?

[Kadal]

I think that, in general, the trauma of 'dying' is usually enough to cause a person to wake up; it always does with me. On the other hand, if we do sometimes sleep after dying, we wouldn't remember dying anyway, so I guess there's no way to know for sure.

[seeker28]

From what I understand most people naturally wake up after the end of each REM period. Generally these wakeings are really short and most people aren't even aware of them. My own experience mirrors this. Dying has always ended my dreams, and thus, lead to me waking up. I suspect you are aware of waking up after dying in a dream because the dream even was enough to startle your groggy mind into more alertness than usual.

[Luminous]

Dying doesn't always end my dreams. I have at several occasions turned into a ghost/spirit, though I've always been lucid every time I've died in a dream, whether the dream ended or not at the moment of death.

[seeker28]

Dying doesn't always end my dreams. I have at several occasions turned into a ghost/spirit, though I've always been lucid every time I've died in a dream, whether the dream ended or not at the moment of death. Wow, that is so cool. I wish dying didn't boot me so fast. A while ago I tried to get eaten to death by wolves/coyotes, to face that fear. And I "died" so quickly I felt I hadn't really confronted the fear very well.

[Seraphic8X]

It seems lately whenever I die, or am in the middle of dieing, I don't wake up but rather get 'teleported' or respawned into another dream or the same kind of dream. A couple nights ago I dreamt I was under this metal floor and my body was stuck under this giant floor-press and my head was slowly being crushed. It felt so real but there was nothing I could do but shift my weight forward until I come up on the end, where at that point I actually just laid back and accepted death. After that I just wound up outside of it and continued with the dream.

[RunflaCruiser]

Wow, that is so cool. I wish dying didn't boot me so fast. A while ago I tried to get eaten to death by wolves/coyotes, to face that fear. And I "died" so quickly I felt I hadn't really confronted the fear very well. I bet not many people try this. Brave!

[reesespieces]

Is it possible to sleep after dying in a dream? Everytime I die I wake up immediately before i fall to my death or something. Do u always wake up or can you just sleep w/o dreaming? i always wake i think it is because we sometimes feel that dreams are real so therefore we think that we are really dying

[CaLeB-]

The only time I ever die in my sleep is from falling to my death. Even if I face the fear of heights, I still wake up from the overwhelming sensations from falling. Feels really weird, too, like as if my whole body went numb.