Deadly Dreams

Recently I had a dream that I was surfing. It was one of those dreams that are so vivid it seems like reality. In my dream I ended up underwater and couldn't make it back to the surface. I was fighting to get there but couldn't seem to make it.

I was on the verge of drowning when my wife woke me up. She told me that I had stopped breathing and was struggling to get a breathe and it scared her enough to wake me immediately. She asked me if I was OK. After I caught my breathe I told her that I was fine, that I just had a bad dream about drowning, that I couldn't make it back to the surface for some reason and it was so real that I literally couldn't breathe.

This isn't the first time I've had dreams that were so real that they affected me like this. I was just telling someone about it this morning and so I thought it would be a good topic to discuss.

Have any of you ever had a deadly dream? Is this what happens when someone goes to bed and never wakes up? You know, when there's no rhyme or reason for them not waking up, they just say he / she died of "natural causes"?

 

Yeah, that's possible. And I will if it continues. Thanks for the suggestion. One thing that happens to me a lot is when i'm falling asleep I jerk / convulse a lot until I fall completely into a deep sleep. I have read about that and It seems I get caught between being conscious and unconscious, like a flickering light that wants to go out but won't completely.

 

Lol I have caught my wife with an elbow / arm / hand on accident before. She really should wear a helmet when sleeping next to me. CTE is real ya'll.

 

Not a bad analysis but I don't think that's it. My wife doesn't nag me very often, we don't have kids, we have zero debt, and I'm living out my dream of living on the E. Coast and having the ability to surf daily provided there are waves and i'm physically able. Life is good Z man, life is good! This happened while we are on vacation and sleeping in unfamiliar bed away from home. We were livin it up and stoked! Good vibes duder. Only problem, I knew it was going to be flat come morning...

 

Thanks for the words of wisdom and video WBF. I will monitor the situation for sure.

 

You're right, I don't, but I appreciate any advice you give. Seriously, with your background and all. As for the jerking as I fall asleep, I have done this most of my life actually. The herb is what helps me sleep. But I have actually cut back some, reduced my intake about 25% the past few weeks. Maybe do another 25% and see how that goes. I've also cut back on the drinking, I don't really drink much Monday - Thursday. I may drink 6-12 beers from Friday - Sunday.

 

Wife says I snore bad if I've been drinking but when I haven't been she said I can be so quiet she has checked on me before. She snores really loud usually lol Don't tell her I told you though.

 

Yeah, can't hurt. We'll see how it goes. I honestly don't think I'm in any danger with this little breathing episode from a dream where I was drowning. I mean, it's possible like you guys said, and I will take you guys seriously and monitor the situation. To be positive though, I didn't take it as much more than a really vivid or lucid dream. I've read that it's certainly possible that the dream was just so real that my body responded as if it was happening in reality.

 

Ever had a dream where you are falling and you wake up right before you hit the ground and you have that feeling in your stomach when you are falling? Have you heard that if you hit the ground in your dream that you actually die? Urban myth? lol

 

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