Dying in your dreams
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I had a dream last night that where I was with my friends and they had a helium balloon and I inhaled it. After I inhaled it my neck stiffenned up and I saw in the mirror that my adams apple was shrinking and it eventually imploded. After that I couldn't breathe and I remember saying to myself I'm going to die right now and I'm only 21. Then everything became white and I woke up.
I have never had a dream where I died before and it's sort of freaking me out. Is this even normal? I'm afraid of sleeping right now!
I have never had a dream where I died before and it's sort of freaking me out. Is this even normal? I'm afraid of sleeping right now!
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So... think about things and sleep tight. You're not dying.
I used to dream regularly from an early age that my Dad was going to prematurely die. Now, I know everyone dies but these dreams were so real, and I hardly ever dreamed of him alive. I used to wake up so scared that i'd have to call him asap to make sure he was still there. In the dreams I was always in my 20's and either at his funeral, getting a phone call that he'd had a heart attack or sorting through his stuff. The last time I dreamt this I was stood to the right hand side of his coffin in the local church. His coffin was mahogany and there was a picture of him on top and I read a eulogy.
In August 2009 my Dad died of a heart attack, he was 55 and I was 25 at the time. His coffin was mohogany (I wasn't consulted on this, it was my mum's choice), there was a picture of him on top and I read a eulogy. He was buried in the local church and throughout the service I was stood to the right of his coffin. The comparisons with the dreams I had were actually scarier for me than the fact that I was burying my Dad.
I've never been able to lucid dream but the one time since his death I have dreamed of him dying I was able to tell myself that it was a dream and change it. I woke up very depressed but something definately changed. Now I only dream of my Dad visiting me, either in my house, at my mum's, out on our bikes or in his beloved garden (we spent a lot of time together on bikes and in the garden). He's very happy and the same old Dad I'll always miss. One night I even dreamt that I visited him in the afterlife... He was working in a huge afterlife zoo and was assigned to looking after the tortoises! No, I can't explain that one...
So, to be fair, it's not entirely true that all dreams are symbolic. I do believe that some are almost premonitions... although I don't think it is in the case of the helium balloon and imploding adam's apple :shock:
I got a dream book years ago and it lives by my bed. I always look up the symbolism of weird and wonderful dreams I've had and it soon puts my mind at ease... maybe you could do the same?
... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
Also, take care what you read (or watch on tv) before bed. Anything by Stephen King or Poe would give me horrific nightmares until I finally made the connection and had to quit reading all the macabre material that I used to take to bed.
"what a long, strange trip it's been"
the other night, i had to take my truck someplace and they would take it to sell, or i could buy it back.
well, i decided to keep it but some middle aged mexican wanted it. he had the keys but couldn't open the hood, so i got the keys from him to open the hood. then he wanted the keys back because it was goign to be his truck, i said no, and we argued for a few minutes, then we got into it. he was biting my arm so to get him off i threw a big knee into him..
this is when i woke up to a pissed gf, because i ended up kneeing her in teh back.
I totally agree about premonitions. Though I would say that premonitions convey themselves through dreams as your mind is 'open' and uncluttered with daily thoughts. I guess it would be difficult to make the difference, but I think those who experienced pre-congnitive dreams can. Besides your dear father's funeral, have you ever had a sense of deja-vu but couldn't place it? Those could be due to pre-cognitive dreams that you didn't remember upon waking.
Weird dreams with 'unnatural' happenings (such as parts of the body imploding!) are usually symbolic.
In this particular case, your self-induced helium asphyxiation has direct relation to your subconscious wanting to touch a male's ball sack on a sailboat.
Regards,
Dream Reader
Seriously though, they have books about the meaning and significance of certain things in dreams. My girlfriend has one somewhere, I can take a peak in there and see what it says in relation to death and dying if you're that curious.
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