where did the myth come from: dying in dreams can be fatal- Ex. if you hit bottom while falling in a dream?
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It originated in many different places but mainly in Peru.In ancient times,people believed that dreams are very powerful elements.They use it for fortune telling and even for matchmaking.According to their beliefs,dreams are the hotline of the gods and are sometimes used as punishment.It is told that a man died while asleep and the village elder said that he died in his dreams.Thus, the myth began.Many other occurences happened after this incident but they're too many to mention.
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I guess it is possible if they hit their head on something and cracked their skull.  I don't know of anyone who has died this way, but it does sound possible.
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Near-death experiences are persons and events of the past, or maybe future events yet to happen, which a person in a coma or near death experiences.. Many of these people who experience this phenomena says that they can feel themselves leaving their bodies. There are no scientific methods to prove or disprove their  stories. There seems to be a pattern of similarity in the stories of those who have experienced near-death experiences. I think that there might be something to this, and it is beyond our ability to comprehend at the present time. Maybe in the future, we'll know more about this. Only time will tell.
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Depends on the dream. If you are dreaming that you are falling, then color is not of great importance. And again it depends on if the person was born blind vs going blind at age 20 when this person knows what colors are.
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Studies were done as far back as 1794. It has been determine that some do not die instantaneously and have conscious thoughts for up to 10 seconds
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The most common dream that I have is that I fall off a building continously into a never ending drop. Personally, I think the that dream means there is something bad about to happen or something you did is going to cause you to have a deep depression or a downfall. However, I wish that i can dream about being in a hot tub with hella females in an italian villa.
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After billing yourself as the greatest, ( see Mohamed Ali, Mike Tyson, the Jackson Family, Hollywood stars, etc...) there is no "graceful" way to fall.\nAs in any thing, one will fight and suck that last breath of air, before suffocation.\nSince we are billed as never die, we will inevitably claw the dirt in final throws.
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That is a widely spread urban legend. The URL below gives more background on it. The Mythbusters also investigated this urban legend to see if you could possibly die from such a thing. As I recall, Jamie volunteered, was painted, and started feeling really lousy. So they concluded that even if you couldn't die, it wasn't a great idea.
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most people don't dream about dying because they have never been in a situation where they were close to dying so their brain can't comprehend it as real.  So as soon as you become close to dying, the rational part of your brain thinks "this ain't right" so you either start dreaming about something else or wake up.\n\nPeople who have had near-death experiences may dream about dying. Or the very imaginative.
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During sleep a part of the brain called the pons fires randomly. The cortex of your brain then tries to make sense of these random signals by pairing them with things in your memory. If you spend all day listening to dark music and thinking about death, you would then dream about it. It means nothing. Analyzing the latent content of dreams is nonsense that went out of favour with scientists a long time ago. \nFreud also believed nonsense like "all women suffer from penis envy." Freud is highly quotable, but unreliable.
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When you are experiencing a dream your body will try to simulate the experience. That might explain why if you have a bad you toss and turn.
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When someone dies, they do not die spiritually, they are there in your dreams at the moment to let you know that they are there to support you and to let you know that all is ok. So stop worrying and realise that you are lucky that they are so loving and supportive. Look further into the dream, they are probably giving you some advise about your health too and how to take care of yourself. Tonight, when you dream of them, try to write down everything they say and you will find your answers. (((Hugs))) Get well soon.
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sleep paralysis is a throwback from our hunter/gatherer days, caveman days, a long time ago. Back when we where not on top of the food chain and we were not the most powerful preditors. It is a defense mechanism that kept us safe at night. If we were asleep and moved, that would alert preditors out to get us. So our nervous system prevents the body from involuntarily moving while we are most vulnerable, while we are in a deep sleep. It is not supposed to continue when we are conscious but it does happen. If it happens while we are having a bad dream it seems logical to associate the feelings of terror and fear with evil but it is in our minds.
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To dream that you die in your dream, symbolizes inner changes, transformation, self-discovery and positive development that is happening within you or in your life. Although such a dreams may bring about feelings of fear and anxiety, it is no cause for alarm and is often considered a positive symbol.  Dreams of experiencing your own death usually means that big changes are ahead for you. You are moving on to new beginnings and leaving the past behind. These changes does not necessarily imply a negative turn of events. Metaphorically, dying can be seen as an end or a termination to your old ways and habits. So, dying does not always mean a physical death, but an ending of something. \n\nOn a negative note, to dream that you die may represent involvement in deeply painful relationships or unhealthy, destructive behaviors. You may feeling depressed or feel strangled by a situation or person in your waking life. Perhaps your mind is preoccupied with someone who is terminally ill or dying. Alternatively, you may be trying to get out of some obligation, responsibility or other situation. \n\nTo see someone dying in your dream, signifies that your feelings for that person are dead or that a significant change/loss is occurring in your relationship with that person. Alternatively, you may want to repress that aspect of yourself that is represented by the dying person. \n\nHope that helped a bit!
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like all natural things there is a resource of oxygen stored in our boby in form of water... if the body is short of oxygen the body tries to convert water into oxygen thus stop from dieing... \n\nwhen you hold your breath initially there is a shortage of air in the body you get unconscious during this period the body starts to convert some amount of water into oxygen... and waits for our body to get external air... \n\nthis is a slow process and if your body is not strong enough to resist... then you can even die immediately...
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yes, its called sleep apnea, you dont get enough oxygen and you pass out, it can actually be fatal
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My sister was out playing, while we were camping, and she got too close to the edge of a cliff. She fell, and luckly there was a ledge that was only like 10 or 15 feet down. The ledge was actually quite skinny and nobody could figure out how she landed on it without getting hurt.