the first dream was about a couple weeks ago. i had a dream that i was in a plane going to vegas and it crashed. the thing was, the dream, if you could call it that, only lasted about three seconds! in my sleep i felt i was suddenly thrown forward with only my seat belt holding me back and my feet braced against the seat in front of me. i could see the ground coming up fast and we were in a nearly vertical plunge only a few hundred feet from the ground. only seconds from crashing. within about two seconds this flashed through my mind. first, shit i'm going to die! then, this how i'm going to die! then, why can't the pilot just level out to plane a little so at least we have a chance to survive! but it was too late for that. we were only a second from hitting the ground. then i woke up. the whole dream experience only lasted the last seconds before crashing. and it felt very real. i told my gf about it and she covered her ears. we're planning a trip to vegas in october.
the next night i had a dream with my father in it, then a dream with my mother in it. two different dreams but one after the other. i won't go into details except that i rarely have dreams like this with my parents in them. they both passed away a couple years ago.
this past week i had a dream of dying. again it only lasted a few seconds because it was at the moment of death. i remember falling to the ground, but i didn't feel anything because i realized i was dead when i hit the ground. then my family came to me and they were in shock and disbelief. they were calling me and crying. i could still see them, and i saw when i fell. like i was already dead but my spirit could still see everything for the last seconds. in those last seconds i remember thinking, shit i'm dead! so this is how it feels to die. then i felt sadness for my family. i wanted to tell them i could still see them, but i couldn't. then my spirit disappeared and i woke up.
just thought i'd share this with you as it was very moving. like i could experience death and dying and describe it to others. just wondered if anyone else here had a near death experience, or similar types of dreams.
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Personally, I'd just chalk it up to "dreams are weird" and leave it at that.
Someone told me that they found it upsetting to have their parents visit them in their dreams after they died. I didnt exactly know what he meant, then my parents died and I found out. They can come to you in your dreams in a very vivid way, like a supernatural visitation. It is upsetting!
So I sympathize with you for that, but the "dying" dreams tend to not upset me. Anymore I seem to also be an observer, and even realize it is just a dream when I dream them, which hasnt been often.
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Someone told me that they found it upsetting to have their parents visit them in their dreams after they died. I didnt exactly know what he meant, then my parents died and I found out. They can come to you in your dreams in a very vivid way, like a supernatural visitation. It is upsetting!
My father died while I was abroad, but being out of reach I could not possibly know about this. And yet at the very day of his death I had random thoughts about him, having dreams with him appearing the following nights. I felt quite uncomfortable and in feared somehow he might have died. Then I decided to call home and found out about his death. This was the creepiest moment in my life, but in retrospective I'm pretty sure human mind plays tricks on yourself.
Quote: DJTeddyBearI recall reading somewhere that if you have a dream like that, where you're falling off a cliff or something, that you'll wake up before you hit ground. If you actually hit ground in the dream, then you'll die in your sleep.
You might what to think about why that theory is a bunch of hooey... :)
(and I'm not dismissing it on a disbelief in dreams being predictive)
Cogito Ergo Sum. I wouldn't worry about it. You're going to die, just not today.Quote: inap..i didn't feel anything because i realized i was dead..
Quote: thecesspitYou might what to think about why (the if-you-hit-ground-in-dream-you-die) theory is a bunch of hooey... :)
I knew a girl who said she would hit the ground in her dreams! she lived to tell about it [g]
Go figure.
Quote: DJTeddyBearI recall reading somewhere that if you have a dream like that, where you're falling off a cliff or something, that you'll wake up before you hit ground. If you actually hit ground in the dream, then you'll die in your sleep.
I think that is an urban legend.
Quote: MrVI had a dream involving Kim Kardashian, a Tijuana mule, and a slip-n-slide.
Go figure.
Ok, we need video of that one!
Dreams of dead relatives can be scary and sometimes comforting. At some point in our lives, we all long to hold onto someone who meant a great deal to us.
Not to be superstitious or anything, perhaps you might want to avoid your next plane trip??
Quote: DJTeddyBearI recall reading somewhere that if you have a dream like that, where you're falling off a cliff or something, that you'll wake up before you hit ground. If you actually hit ground in the dream, then you'll die in your sleep.
I second the Wizard: urban legend.
Think about it: How would you know?
We'd easily know of someone who awoke right before hitting the ground and/or dying. Certainly. But also those who did hit or died in a dream. And for those who die in their sleep, which happens often, we have no way of knowing what their last dreams were.
It's also a plot device in movies that deal with dreams in some form. I recall a TV movie long ago about people who could intrude in other people's dreams, with that canard present. Or the Matrix movies (not dreams, exactly, but, really...)
Quote: DJTeddyBearI recall reading somewhere that if you have a dream like that, where you're falling off a cliff or something, that you'll wake up before you hit ground. If you actually hit ground in the dream, then you'll die in your sleep.
Personally, I'd just chalk it up to "dreams are weird" and leave it at that.
I don't know how they would prove that you will die in your sleep after that dream. Like saying lethal injection is painless, who are they going to ask to verify it?
I have heard a dream where you die is an omen. I had a grandmother who had a dream where her dog told her she was dead and a few weeks later she was. Correlation <> causation, but I can but that the mind shouldn't let you experience your own death.
As to "falling" dreams I have them all the time, not off cliffs but slip and falls. They are real ebough that I can hyperextend my leg or nearly fall out of bed. Drives me nuts.
Quote: NareedI second the Wizard: urban legend.
Think about it: How would you know?
I heard it direct from a ghost.
Quote: PaigowdanShit, I'm flying back home to Vegas tonight from Texas.
Leaving Texas is always a good thing...
The same way George Carlin knew about the Two Minute Warning.
YouTube Skip to about 1:17.
Quote: DJTeddyBear"How would you know?"
The same way George Carlin knew about the Two Minute Warning.
Good ending. But he doesn't say how he found out, now :P
Quote: PaigowdanShit, I'm flying back home to Vegas tonight from Texas. Thank you, voice of DOOOOM......
It could be worse Dan. Back in the 60's, when I was in USAF, after driving a buddy to the airport to catch his flight home.
Well, remember I was young and stupid then, always invested a dollar.
From the 1950s until well into the 1970s, vending machines were used at American airports to sell life insurance policies covering death, in the event that the buyer's flight crashed. Such policies were quite profitable, because the risk of a plane crash is low.
Quote: buzzpaffFrom the 1950s until well into the 1970s, vending machines were used at American airports to sell life insurance policies covering death, in the event that the buyer's flight crashed. Such policies were quite profitable, because the risk of a plane crash is low.
I remember them. I think they persisted into the early 80s, too. And didn't the mad bomber in the first "Airport" movie take out a policy in such a machine prior to baording? Or was that on the first "Airplane!" movie?
Quote: WizardI think that is an urban legend.
Yes, rather my point originally... it's not even an urban legend... the very story itself does not hang together logically if you think about it...
Authorities were shocked to discover that there was no federal statute on the books at the time (1955) that made it a crime to blow up an airplane. Therefore, on the day after Graham's confession, the Colorado district attorney moved swiftly to prosecute Graham via the simplest possible route: premeditated murder committed against a single victim -- his mother, Mrs. King. Thus, despite the number of victims killed on Flight 629 along with Mrs. King, Graham was charged with only one count of first degree murder.
As the case progressed, Graham quickly recanted his confession, but at his 1956 trial his defense was unable to counter the massive amount of evidence presented by the prosecution. He was convicted of the murder of his mother and, after a few short delays, was executed in the Colorado State Penitentiary gas chamber on January 11, 1957. Before his execution, he said about the bombing, "as far as feeling remorse for these people, I don't. I can't help it. Everybody pays their way and takes their chances. That's just the way it goes."
That's just the way it goes !!
Quote: buzzpaffpurchased life insurance at the airport just before boarding
In 1955, insurance could be purchased for a few cents from vending machines in airport terminals. Seems like much less of an indicator considering that anyone bored while waiting for their flight might have stuck a few cents in the machine.
Quote: buzzpaffEven more amazing is a trial in 1956 and an execution in January of 1957.
Yeah, that rocks!!
Quote: WizardI think that is an urban legend.
It has to be an urban legend. I have fallen seemingly great distances in my sleep and hit the ground and lived. But I have been killed in my dreams by being shot, stabbed, drowned (one of the scariest) and once by some biological virus.
Mark
Quote: WizardI think that is an urban legend.
Perhaps it was deduced statistically? Let's take the locations people dream of falling off: airplane, cliff, building rooftop. Say the average distance from ground is x. Let y be the distance fallen before you think 'oh shit im going to die/died' and wake up, adjusted for the slower reaction time while sleeping. Making assumptions for mean y and standard deviation, we can find out a percentage where y>x, i.e person doesn't wake up until they've at least reached the ground. If an abnormally small amount of people report waking up at or after impact, then maybe this theory has something to it. For the record I've done my share of falling in-dream and never hit the ground.
Another tiem I dreamt I could jump from the top of the stairs down two landings, turning in mid-air with the greatest of ease. But I wasn't scared when doing so, just astonished that I could do it.
Quote: DJTeddyBearI recall reading somewhere that if you have a dream like that, where you're falling off a cliff or something, that you'll wake up before you hit ground. If you actually hit ground in the dream, then you'll die in your sleep.
In theory, it's possible that the shock could kill you, but the two far more likely results are, (a) the shock of hitting the ground wakes you up, or (b) somehow, you survive in the dream.
Quote: marksolbergIt has to be an urban legend. I have fallen seemingly great distances in my sleep and hit the ground and lived. But I have been killed in my dreams by being shot, stabbed, drowned (one of the scariest) and once by some biological virus.
Mark
i hate dreams where i'm being chased by some disfigured infected being, and just from a touch you become infected too! thank goodness i haven't had those for awhile.
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Quote: marksolbergIt has to be an urban legend. I have fallen seemingly great distances in my sleep and hit the ground and lived. But I have been killed in my dreams by being shot, stabbed, drowned (one of the scariest) and once by some biological virus.
Mark
i hate when i dream that i'm being chased by some disfigured/infected being, and just from a touch you become infected too! thank goodness i haven't had one of those for awhile.
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Quote: NareedThe one time I can recall dreaming about falling was at age 10 or so, and I fell out of bed in reality.
Another tiem I dreamt I could jump from the top of the stairs down two landings, turning in mid-air with the greatest of ease. But I wasn't scared when doing so, just astonished that I could do it.
when i was about the same age of 10 or so i dreamt i was being chased by a monster. i was literally trying to climb the wall next to my bed to get away. my mother was in shock and woke me.
funny, i always have dreams where i would just jump from the top of the stairs to the bottom. sometimes because i'm being chased and sometimes just because i think i can. it would be stairs with several flights and a hand rail. i would think, why stop now and just hold on to the hand rail and make the turn to go down all the flights without touching the ground until i got to the bottom.
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Quote: inapfunny, i always have dreams where i would just jump from the top of the stairs to the bottom. sometimes because i'm being chased and sometimes just because i think i can. it would be stairs with several flights and a hand rail.
The stairs in the house I grew up in had 4 steps going down, then a landing that turned 90 degrees, next 12 or 14 steps, another landing with another 90 degree turn, then four more steps. Sometimes I'd jump the last two steps to the landing, or to the bottom floor. Once I jumped all 4 steps andnearly fell on landing.
So in my dream I'd be at the top and jump down, then pretty much fly down the steps making both 90 degree turns in mid-air. I wasn't running from anything or trying to get away; I'd just jumped because I wanted to.
You were right the first time.Quote: NareedDidn't the mad bomber in the first "Airport" movie take out a policy in such a machine prior to baording? Or was that on the first "Airplane!" movie?
It was the first Airport movie.
Quote: DJTeddyBearYou were right the first time.
It was the first Airport movie.
I thought so, but there was also someone with a bomb in "Airplane!" of course that movie had to satirize several "Airport" movies, not just one. I should get it on DVD one of these days...
Quote: heatherIn 1955, insurance could be purchased for a few cents from vending machines in airport terminals. Seems like much less of an indicator considering that anyone bored while waiting for their flight might have stuck a few cents in the machine.
Ah yes, bored in the airport with some money in your pocket.
Hmm, what to do?
Hey, I know!
Put slots in the airport.
To hell with insurance, give em FALSE HOPE!
I've won in the airport...once.Quote: MrVPut slots in the airport.
To hell with insurance, give em FALSE HOPE!