I have never had a dream where I thought that I had just died. However, I do think I can relate to this experience. I have dreams often when I become lucid, there will be details in my dream trying to trick me into thinking that it was waking life.
For example: I once had a dream where I became lucid but the dream was so realistic. I was with friends in my apartment and I knew I was dreaming, but everything felt off. Then I asked my friend, "am I dreaming?" She replied, "haha no but that's funny, I feel that way too sometimes. We're tripping remember?" I have never done acid but have always been curious so in my dream I got tricked into thinking that I was tripping and not dreaming. Later on in that dream, I remember my friend left a pack of cigarettes on my car dashboard. After a very long vivid dream of me with my friends "tripping on acid", I had a false awakening. I dreampt that I woke up and went to class, still confused about if the night before had been a dream or an acid trip. Then I saw the pack of cigarettes on my dashboard and I thought everything was waking life. Weirdest feeling! I finally actually woke up and reflected. It truly was a very disorienting dream.
I think what we experience is our mind tricking us out of lucidity. I wonder why we dream like this. It is like our mind wants to fight us out of knowing that we're dreaming sometimes.
Great dream! Sounds interesting.
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