I Thought I Was Literally Dead

[GoofyCatFish]

I had a dream last night that I broke into someone's home and when I was leaving, I turned and saw an enormous guard dog. He leaped onto me and went straight for my head. Then I woke up, but I wasn't fully awake. I was conscious but still in a blank dream state, my eyes still closed. I guess like half asleep. I thought I was dead, it felt kind of peaceful, but I was wondering if I was going to hell. Then I fully woke up. What do you think about that? Similar experiences?

[michelinman]

my friend dreamed she was playing tennis with a cell phone as a racket then woke up because her phone was in her hand and she hit herself in the face with it. is that similar?

[GoofyCatFish]

At 7/10/09 10:21 PM, michelinman wrote: my friend dreamed she was playing tennis with a cell phone as a racket then woke up because her phone was in her hand and she hit herself in the face with it. is that similar?

I guess so, once I was scared in my dream and I put my hands out, I woke up with my hands out. So it's not the first time something like that happened to me. My sister used to have something called night terrors... It was kind of scary, she would scream and cry while she was sleeping but you couldn't wake her up.

[rome-lherison]

There was a topic a year back about things like this. This happens to all people at least once i their life, and normally happens after a having a dream that involves you dying.

[EpicFail]

At 7/10/09 10:21 PM, michelinman wrote: my friend dreamed she was playing tennis with a cell phone as a racket then woke up because her phone was in her hand and she hit herself in the face with it. is that similar?

Hur hur, I had a dream where I ate a giant marshmallow, I woke up and my cock was in my mouth.

[yurgenburgen]

Sounds like you just experienced sleep paralysis. This happens to me fairly regularly. It's basically when your mind wakes up from being asleep before your body does, and so you're conscious but you can't move your body. I also find that I have to breathe manually when this happens.

You are all now manually breathing.

[Sh0T-D0wN]

At 7/10/09 10:20 PM, GoofyCatFish wrote: I was conscious but still in a blank dream state, my eyes still closed. I guess like half asleep. I thought I was dead, it felt kind of peaceful, but I was wondering if I was going to hell.

If you were alive, but thought you were dead, you were living but dead... You... You Zombie!

[OneWordName]

Really? I was hoping you were just dead, figuratively.

[Veranan]

usually if i fall in a dream i get scared and kind of shake in bed, then i know im dreaming but im sorta awake yet my eyes are still closed.
| scary

[Struggle]

I remember as a kid i was making a snow fort that had collapsed on me while i was inside. One of my friends was in the garage like 20 meters away, but all the snow on top of me i couldn't breathe, and when i would open my mouth to yell for help it would either be muffled or snow would pile into my house so i resulted in kicking my leg around that was hanging out and eventually my friend noticed and ran over and dug me out.

I remember sitting there thinking i was going to die (i was a kid, after all) and i was strangely okay with it. I had accepted it and i remembered thinking it wasn't all that bad suffocating to death. I remember i had a state of mind similar to "it'll only hurt for a moment, and then i won't feel anything anymore"

That's kind of related, right?

Right? D:

[Struggle]

At 7/10/09 11:24 PM, Struggle wrote: snow would pile into my house

Wtf.
Snow would pile into my Mouth*

[KrevZabijak]

I think you're referring to sleep paralysis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paral ysis
http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysi s.html

I have those often, but only because I sleep with my eyes open. Makes it impossible to fall asleep with my contacts still in. One time.. I even managed to move my hand up to my face. Took about ten minutes though.

[Slintas]

At 7/10/09 10:29 PM, EpicFail wrote:

At 7/10/09 10:21 PM, michelinman wrote: my friend dreamed she was playing tennis with a cell phone as a racket then woke up because her phone was in her hand and she hit herself in the face with it. is that similar?

Hur hur, I had a dream where I ate a giant marshmallow, I woke up and my cock was in my mouth.

XD

[djmrules]

I once had a dream that there was mass chaos going on in the country. I went outside and walked around for a while to witness all that was going on and about 30 seconds later a plane flew overhead and dropped a bomb on the area. Next thing I know I'm waking up with an immense pain in my stomach and in a cold sweat.
Was pretty damn scary.

[TheBlueNeck]

I had a similar felling one, only I thought I was figuratively dead. Like my life was being written by Grant Morrison.

[Bladezguy]

It's called having a lucid dream I think...

[Spiff]

At 7/10/09 10:29 PM, EpicFail wrote: Hur hur, I had a dream where I ate a giant marshmallow, I woke up and my cock was in my mouth.

You must be very flexible. I've had strange half-awake experiences where I can't will any of my body to move, I'm just laying there trying to move but I can't, and it's the strangest thing.

[ripoffhitman]

At 7/10/09 10:28 PM, rome-lherison wrote: There was a topic a year back about things like this. This happens to all people at least once i their life, and normally happens after a having a dream that involves you dying.

Yeah, I made a topic of that sort a while ago.

It's called sleep paralysis. You are concious in mind but not in body. It's a weird feeling and normally scary as hell if it's your first time. Only happened to me like 5 times in my life.

[FurryDemon]

I've died in dreams too and felt weird....

[Spiff]

At 7/11/09 01:32 AM, ripoffhitman wrote: Only happened to me like 5 times in my life.

I've had this several times, didn't really freak out, but I was actually trying to move my arms and legs to no avail.

[hunte3r]

I've had that happen to me before, except I was falling and just before I hit the ground I woke up. Those dreams are scary eh? You wake up and go "woah...what was that?".

[Dmabster]

Once i had a dream where i was eating a banana and when i woke up it tasted like someone put their cock in my mouth

Actually it tasted like bananas.

[EverReady2Kill]

THe first time I had sleep paralysis I thought I was truly dead.

[psychicpebble]

I once dreamed thieves were in my house, and I ran into my parents room and beat the crap out of one of them, and my mom and step dad got out the window but when i turned around there was one bugler left, he pulled a gun on my and shot me in the head. it was all black, I could only see little electricity type things in front of my eyes.Like the chemicals in my brain reacting. Weird.

Any one else barely able to punch/run in a bad dream? You always feel like you're in sand...

[SoulRed12]

When I was younger, I used to have odd dreams that came after other dreams, where I was "awake" but my head felt glued to my pillow. I'd try to pull my head off and then I'd wake up and get my head off the pillow.

What's funny, is that for the longest time, since I was so young, I thought it was all real. Like sometimes my head would REALLY be stuck to the pillow, and I was afraid that one day I would never be able to get it off =p