Dying In Your Dreams

I've heard several times in several places that if you die in your dreams, you die in real life.  I've even seen debates about how you can't prove it because if someone dies in their dream and dies in real life you'd never know.

Yes, you can verify it because I died in my dream and I'm still alive.  I had someone poke me with a stick just to be sure I wasn't a ghost like in my dream after I died...

Dream: The One Where I Die

Have you ever died in your dreams?  If not, how close have you come?  I'd love to hear about it... post a comment and let me know.

Dream Themes: Loose/Missing Teeth

I had a friend ask me about dreams where your teeth are loose or falling out and I knew that I had several dreams with this theme, and have even heard references to it on shows like 30 Rock.  So, let's look that one up:

"Lose a tooth and you are afraid of losing a loved one.  Lose all of them and you are full of anxieties about the future." (1)

"Dreaming of teeth falling out may represent insecurity. These dreams often occur at a time of transition... When you lost your milk teeth, you also gradually lost your childhood innocence. Losing your teeth today therefore shows that today you have similar feelings of uncertainty and self-consciousness as you did in childhood. The dream could also highlight your worries about getting older or your sexual attractiveness." (2)

"Im Tofeeq, a Palestinian woman, told me that among the Arabs it is believed that if you dream of losing teeth it means your brother or son is in trouble. She had a dream in which three of her teeth fell out. The next day she received a call from America to say her son had been shot in the head three times by a gunman." (3)

In my own experience, I always had a sense of fear during these dreams that I would be ugly, so I'm guessing in my case it's insecurity about how I look.  My other insecurities tend to play out in my dreams in other ways, I guess, like being chased or being in perilous situations.

(1) Grant, Russell. The Illustrated Dream Dictionary.

(2) Hamilton-Parker, Craig. Remembering & Understanding Your Dreams.

(3) Crisp, Tony. Dream Dictionary: An A to Z Guide to Understanding Your Unconscious Mind

Dream Themes: Peeing

The dreams you're most likely to remember are ones where you wake up in the middle... you just don't have time to forget about it while you continue your rest.

Often, people remember the last dream they had just before waking up for good in the morning... and one thing that comes along with waking up is your morning pee.

I find that I incorporate real-life sounds, feelings, etc. in my dreams. I recall having a dream where I was outside, and in real life, my mother opened my bedroom door to wake me up. In my dream, a door appeared out of thin air and opened just before I woke up.

I have seemingly countless dreams where I have to pee... sometimes I actually get to pee (and, contrary to popular belief I do NOT actually pee the bed), but most of the time I'm stuck endlessly getting interrupted.

Sometimes I walk into a bathroom and all the toilets and urinals are so disgustingly filthy I can't bring myself to use them.

Other times, I'll be in a bathroom with dozens of urinals or toilets, I get ready to go, and someone will come in and - with all the free spaces - will come and stand right next to me.

I've had dreams of peeing into the strangest locations - once a beautiful gold or bronze bejeweled bowl, I remember.

I just looked up "urine/urinate" in one of my dream books, "Dream Dictionary: An A to Z Guide to Understanding Your Unconscious Mind" and it says, "Dreams in which we try to go to the toilet but it is mysteriously locked or closed, may be due to the need to pee during the night." (p. 394)

It was interesting that two of my other dream books didn't even go near the subject. Perhaps it's too "dirty"????

I know whenever I have the dream I wake up and always have to go...

See dreams in the blog that have to do with peeing.