why does it feel so real? i distinctly remember this one dream i had where i was being chased in the parking lot and got shot because i didn't turn a corner fast enough... woke up with immense pressure, almost pain in the spot where i got shot on my body. maybe it was like being shot with an airgun. not that i know what that feels like
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Yeah! I had the exact same thing happen to me.
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I can't remember a dream where I have died but there is one dream where I did feel some pain. I had big wings but when I tried to fly I got pulled down and I felt a pain on my back. When I woke up I could still kinda feel the pain and I can still sorta imagine what the pain felt like even though it only happened in a dream. I'm not sure why this happens but it's probably the same reason you feel like your falling in your dreams. Maybe your brain "sees" you die and so thinks "oh guess you should probably feel some pain then since that is what is supposed to happen when you die."
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I've died in my dreams throughout my life. It's just anxiety over trauma experienced. They're the same type of dream event where you're trying to defend yourself and throwing punches that are completely ineffective, or fleeing someone and moving in slow motion. I've fallen to my death, been shot and stabbed. Never beaten to death. I think that would take too long and I'd force myself awake first. After I die I force myself to waken and I'm pretty depressed for the better part of a day. As I've gotten older and have more control over my life and my ego is fleshed out I've died less. I've also been able to inflict harm on others when defending myself-something that never happened when I was young. I'm 60, btw.
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