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MYTH #2: If you die in a lucid dream, you die in real life.
In Wes Craven's classic horror flick, A Nightmare on Elm Street, a pedophile named Freddie Krueger haunts the dreams of teenagers. Worse, when he attacks them in their dreams... they die in real life.
If such a myth were true, I wouldn't be here to write this.
I've died many times in lucid and non-lucid dreams. The other night I was stabbed to death in the stomach and passed through this wonderful red-black dream realm in which I felt totally free before emerging into the first-person perspective of my son. I got to exist as a two-year-old for the rest of the dream!
Some people say they simply wake up when they die in a dream, and that's usually because they've been murdered or have died in some adrenaline-surging dream scenario. As a lucid dreamer I have trained myself to remain calm in my dreams whenever I have the conscious clarity to do so. And that means if someone kills me, I tend to become instantly lucid and hold on to the dream thread.
Typically, I'll pass through some sort of multi-colored portal or realm and emerge as another being. After dying, I have woken up as an alien on a surgical table, with the recollection that my human life was just a long dream as part of an epic alien lifecycle. I have woken up as other human beings. And I have woken up as myself in a different time (like a flashback) or however else my unconscious wants me to perceive this dream plot twist.
I say "woken up" because, for me, the transition between dying and being reborn in a lucid dream is usually a sense of going from dark to light. I suspect this is reflected by my unconscious cultural interpretation about what happens when you die. I don't believe in the afterlife, but the movies tell me so. Also, consider the dark-to-light nature of the hypnagogic state that pervades the inter-dream borderland state.
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