Poll: Unfortunate Fatal Incidents (in your dreams).

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Cherry Cola

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are.you.the.god.its.me.vader said:
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are.you.the.god.its.me.vader said:
I "woke up" in the Fallout universe, in a battle between The Brotherhood Of Steel, and some super mutants.

It was EPIC.

I even sacrificed myself to make project purity work.
Did you drink mountain dew, coca-cola, or any other beverage while passing out in front of the TV playing fallout? Because I'm going to go do the exact same thing with DA:O right now and dream of me persuading Morrigan into my tent.
Actually I just have too much "thinking time". The other night it was basically the spider-man origin story, but with me instead.....then I found out i was a clone.
And then there was a third clone, and then perhaps you weren't the clone, and then you maybe are a clone. I hate the clone-saga.
 

Cherry Cola

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Remember that badguy from Home alone? Not Joe Pesci, the other guy. He sliced my throat once.
 

rampantcreature

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I've actually had several plane crash dreams. One I woke up as the plane was exploding. Another...was able to go to a Swiss cafe after the incident, hitting the ground, dead and everything.

Incidentally I live in NYC. Near both inner-city airports. I fly somewhere about once a year and have no fears of it whatsoever.
 

ElTigreSantiago

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Ah. I love dreams. I wish there were more threads about them.

I have never "died" in one of dreams. [small]But other people sure have.[/small] I have jumped (I guess I could say fell) off of some pretty high things and just hit the ground perfectly okay. My theory is since I have never actually experienced such a thing, my mind doesn't know what to do, and I just kind of enter godmode. I have been shot, stabbed, shocked, broken and beat. But I've never died, and I don't wake up right as things happen. I just continue with the dream.

And I can also breath underwater, which is incredibly awesome. I wonder if I can breath in space? I never have been in space in a dream, again probably because I don't know what it's like.
 

USSR

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pimppeter2 said:
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You joined but didn't post? That's the first time I've seen that.
I didn't post for about a month or two after I got my account.

Aah, but that was back in the good ol' days of 2008..
 

Captain Schpack

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I don't actually die but I come hella close. What happens to me most is I trip and feel like I'm falling then wake up experiencing a weird tingling sensation.

On the hella close, normally I lose a couple limbs but stay alive.
 

ddon

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there was this one time in a dream were i got in a knife fight with someone in a desert. i just died from blood loss then woke up.
 

chromewarriorXIII

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I never die in my dreams but sometimes when I'm about to and I make a sudden movement, I wake up and make the same movement. With the falling dreams I always wake up before I hit the ground, but when I wake up I feel like I was just dropped into my bed.
 

badgersprite

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Other people are usually the ones who die in my dreams. I don't know what that says about me (particularly the fact that no one ever listens to my advice which could prevent the damn death), but, well, I don't wake up until after they die.

I don't have a great recollection of my dreams, but ones that I do remember are: my Modern History teacher trying to get across these steps that had huge gaps between them, only to slip and fall to her death; my cousin's cat being crushed by my Mum's car; a friend on the brink of death while I went to look for help, only to get lost and not be able to find my way back. There's plenty of others. Other people die in my dreams a lot. Even to the point where I've woken up wholeheartedly believing that someone died, and feeling sick about it.

I used to die in my dreams a lot more when I was younger, usually through some variation on falling (since I have a fear of heights). I would usually physically fall into my bed at the moment of impact, and feel the mattress bounce, which wakes me up. Anybody who's had a falling dream would probably have a similar experience. You don't actually hit the ground in your dream, but you do seem to fall and land in your bed.

Although, I have had dreams where I was abruptly electrocuted (and could physically feel it) and continued to dream for a few seconds after 'death'. All I saw was a black screen with a white dot in the middle, like an old television that had just been turned off, before abruptly waking up. So, yes, I have continued to dream after dying in a dream, but not for long.
 

mrhappyface

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I was eating breakfast and then...This guy jumped through the window with full commando gear on, and screamed "the source is here!!!!" He kicked my cornflakes and toast out of my hand, flipped over the table, and started to shoot at the door. Zombies from Left 4 Dead started coming out and then suddenly,a Grey Warden and a Big Daddy came down from my bedroom. The Grey Warden picked up the Bouncer and threw it at the zombies. The big daddy exploded and the zombies got turned into goombas. Then commando started shooting at the Grey Warden. The Grey Warden spontaneously combusted and then Barney the Dinosaur crashed into the dining room from the ceiling. He had a hand grenade and chucked it at the commando. The commando ducked out of the way and grabbed me. He jumped over the balcony with me and screamed "The source dies with me!!!!!!!!!!!!" and then i woke up. It felt like i just hit the bed.
 

mrhappyface

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As I have said in another recent topics about dreams, I've been having dreams where I am constantly at war with my friends in a ruined city. In one I had last week, I shot one in the back and another followed me into a nearby building. He chased me all the way to the top. I had run out of ammo, so he shot me in the leg. He then walked over, grabbed me by the hood of my jacket, shot me in the stomach (With a magnum) and threw me off the building. I woke up with a sharp pain through almost my entire body.

I also had one a few months back where me and my friend (Who goes by EvilRaven on the interwebnet) were in the US Marine corps. We were in some sort of stadium at first, but we retreated when it started getting hit with artillery shells. We soon came to a wooden house. Our Commanding Officer (who as I remember was EvilRaven's old girlfriend in real life) ordered him and a few others to check the house. As they neared it, it exploded. Our Offeicer shouted something that I didn't understand, and soon I saw what looked like Aztec peopl running at us (I don't know...). They chased me into a corner, I heard EvilRaven shouting at me, and then one of the Aztec-like soldiers pulled out a jagged knige with a skull design on it, and I woke up immediately before he stabbed me.
Sounds like something from Resident Evil 5.
 

Rawker

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J. Reed said:
If you can't tell by the number of posts/date joined, J. Reed (that's me!) is a rank amateur when it comes to posting in these lovely forums. That being said, I'm not familiar with the popularity or frequency of certain topics, so I hope I don't go and annoy any of you Escapist vets that might happen upon this thread. I also hope I haven't violated any of the rules. If I have, I'm sure I'll be notified. Should that be the case, I apologize in advance.

I wanted to wait until I had something interesting (not like the googolplex-th thread on MW2, or anything else of that ilk) to contribute, so first impressions don't end up being: "Wow. What an archetypal noob."

Anyway, on to the topic for those of you still awake after my qualifying statements.

It's my understanding (assumption, really) that most people, when experiencing a dream where the ultimate outcome is certain death, don't actually die. i.e. You wake up right before the pivotal moment. Like, say, the falling dream. That one?s common enough, I think. I?ve only consulted a few of my friends, but the general consensus, and by that I mean 100 percent, awoke before contact with the ground. I, on the other hand, never fail to HIT the ground. Ever since I was little, whenever my subconscious decides to send me hurtling down from the edge of the stratosphere, the descent always ends with a resounding slap-bang into the cracked bed of some anonymous dried up lake. It?s momentary. Impact, bounce, die/wake up. Were I to have woken up right before the point of impact, it would?ve only shortened the dream by a second or so.

And once I dreamt a medieval themed one. Someone made the mistake of giving me a sword (or I made the mistake of picking it up?) and I ended up in sword fight with a guy who severely outclassed me. The fight went south almost immediately, and I was thoroughly skewered. I watched the blade puncture my abdomen, and then be withdrawn. After I woke from that, I had the oddest sensation on my stomach where I?d been run through. It?s difficult to describe. Almost a numbness.

And the most recent of these was death by gunshot. I wrote an email to my girlfriend detailing it, because it was the most vivid dream experience I?ve ever had. Here?s the pertinent part: ?I don?t remember what it was that brought me to this situation, but it was me and two other people in a room in a house in one of the Southern states. Louisiana, I believe. There were big oaks outside with that mossy stuff hanging from branches. The ceiling fan had kind of a wicker design on the blades, and so did the armchairs. I remember there was one of those enclosed patios attached to the house. Everything was really detailed. I knew that these people were out to kill me covertly, but I didn?t give them the chance. I drew first and shot one, but the other had their weapon out, and when I fired and killed him, he got a shot off into my chest. It was slightly to the left. I fell down then. I recall staring at the ceiling, which had wooden joists running across it. And is where I noticed the wicker ceiling fan. At this point I could feel hot blood pooling underneath me. It was specific though. I could distinctly feel the soaked carpet as I fidgeted somewhat on the floor. It had an odd spongy texture. Then I passed out for awhile, though it was basically instant for me, being the unconscious one. It was night time now, and I found I could right myself. I got up slowly, and stared at the enormous near-black stain on the floor. I stumbled around the house, for what reason, I don?t know. And I was convincing myself, that yes, I could make it. I was up after all, and the bullet was a through and though; good signs, I thought. I think I knew I was deceiving myself though, because it was pretty obvious how things would end Then someone I knew showed up to the house and I slumped down against a wall, no longer able to keep myself up. The person was talking frantically, but I didn?t really hear them. The moving about must have agitated the wound, and I looked down at it. Blood was starting to bubble out and run down my front through a dime-sized hole. My vision went foggy then, and it began to get difficult to breathe, presumably as my lungs were also pooling with blood. I was choking and making slight gurgling sounds as I fought for breath. I laid back down, my vision fading in and out. There was a particularly strong bout of coughing and choking and vision-fading, but that time it didn?t come back. Then my dream switched to something else.?

It was more vivid than this description lets on. I just can?t quite capture it in text form. In response, she told me that she?s had dreams wherein she similarly sustains fatal wounds, but always awakens before death can fully take her.

Those are my three contributions. So the question I posit to you, is: Do you experience these kinds of unfortunate fatal incidents? What do you think of them? Personally, even though none of the dreams I described are in any way pleasant, I find them to be kind of cool. As I stated very early on, my basic assumption is that the majority of peoples? dreams don?t end in death. How do yours compare? Please, sate my curiosity. This has been bugging me forever.

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Also, I copied and pasted the latter part of this into the text box, and all the apostrophes are going Jekyll and Hyde on me when I look at the preview. I apologize if they stay that way in the final version. I also apologize for the gratuitous amount of text.
Holy sh*t a smart newbie. Alert the media!
 

Kodlak

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I have fallen off a cliff in my dreams and then seen my own dead body... I thought you always woke up before you died in dreams.
 

Kinguendo

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Hahaha, I actually had one last night. I had apparently said something offensive to "Phil Mitchell" from Eastenders... a show I dont even watch... and he proceeded to beat the crap out of me until I died, even in my dreams I refused to fight.
 

WolfThomas

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Nope, I'm almost always super powered to the point of godlikeness in my dreams, last night for example I dreamt I learnt how to fly at uni and managed to break up an angry mob with my voice (here's the kicker I was wearing only boxer short with and my junk was hanging out).

I don't have nightmares/bad dreams anymore, that is not to say nothing bad happens, but I often defeat whatever's happening or fight it to a stand still and wake up, also last night I dreamt I was fighting some sort of mummy, pretty much a draw and I woke up.

I try to keep track of my dreams and I've noticed they're becoming more and more lucid as the years progress, if I have several in a row, I can usually remember most of them.