Dreaming that you hit the ground!

I've hit the ground in my sleep before, and i've died in my sleep before. I'm still here. :smile:

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OP

squigaletta

If people die when they hit the ground, how do people know that they were dreaming about falling?

Yeah I see the logic there :smile:

I don't believe it, because otherwise obviously I would be dead and wouldn't be here now, but before my dream I was in two minds about it - I thought there was a possibility it might be true. Maybe it is in some cases (maybe people with heart conditions?)

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Again, even if they did die because of heart disease, how would you know they were dreaming about falling?

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OP

3232

Again, even if they did die because of heart disease, how would you know they were dreaming about falling?

I suppose you would never know. Just a theory I thought of - the shock of hitting the ground in the dream triggering a heart attack or something.
Anyway, glad to know I'm not the only person who has dreamed of it - I'd never heard of anyone dreaming of that before.

Reply 9

TheConfuddledOne

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When i fell and hit the ground in the dream, i just jolted on my bed and woke up.

As far as im aware im still alive.. :rolleyes:

Reply 10

The falling feeling is something everyone experiences, its a survival instinct from when we used to sleep in trees or something. Its meant to make us wake up and grab onto something. It was on QI. :smile:

Reply 11

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3232

The falling feeling is something everyone experiences, its a survival instinct from when we used to sleep in trees or something. Its meant to make us wake up and grab onto something. It was on QI. :smile:

Yeah I know everyone dreams of falling - it was people dreaming of hitting the ground and staying asleep afterwards, ie. not waking up as soon as they hit the ground, that I wondered about.

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rosetinted

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HistoryStudent

nobody dreams of actually hitting the ground, because if you do, you die in real life

Oh crap...I'm dead.

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Captain Haddock

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bunch of crap, of course you don't die

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Sithius

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I once dreamed that I died from a nuclear explosion. Everything was black and I was like 'Shouldn't I be dead?' then eventually I realised it was a dream. Very relieved but still pretty shook up from it all.

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NickNack

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so far ive been vapourised in 6 seperate nuclear explosions, three times been executed by hijackers armed with a 9mm, twice been killed trying to break into a russian army base, and once been blown away by a shotgun.

im pretty sure ive survived every time :smile:

lol, how would anyone actually know that if you dream you die then you die in real life - how did they collect their research?

Reply 16

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rosetinted

Oh crap...I'm dead.

Obviously I don't believe that! I was just saying that some people do, though I don't personally!
I once dreamed that I was a spirit which had come out of my body and was looking at my body lying on my bed. When I got back from a journey outside, I hovered in front of my mouth, trying to get back into my body, but then my forehead itched, I scratched it, and then I knew that since I had broken my concentration, I could no longer get back into my body. Now that was weird.

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