Can A Dream Kill You?

There is a scientific fact that by your dream. Your dream can kill you. Do you think this is true or false? =]

I don think so...
You cannot die because of your dream.

may be a consequence of a dream can kill you. This is possible.

I don't think that it can kill you directly but there are some incidents of people sleep-walking and jumping off roofs etc.
Also some dreams might bring back old memories that and might cause some people to commit suicide or something.

I'm just playing with the thought, if you got a heartdisease.
If a dream are intensive, you're moving, your heart rate increases.
its not so way out if your heart collapse.

Well if this was a "scientific fact", then why would be be debating about whether it's true or false? Sounds like it's false to me...

well, personally i believe that the only way you can die in a dream is of old age! otherwise, it sounds ridiculous...

This post has been edited by demonoider: Dec 21 2007, 08:28 AM

I think that it is possible to die your sleep or by having a dream. When you dream the Limbic system that associates emotions with sensory information becomes very active. Which can cause or induce a stroke or heart failure. Also when you dream the functions that are associated with the left side of the brain become dormant. The left side controls language listening, reading, speaking and writing, thats why its impossible to read anything in our sleep. So we can only perceive so much in are dreams. So unless there not in a state of lucid dreaming and aren't aware of the dream (or nightmare) it can induce some kind panic and cause a biological trigger to release adrenaline into the blood stream and cause health problems. Possible? Yes but unlikely.

This post has been edited by SolidShadow: Dec 22 2007, 02:10 PM

There's no doubt that the mind is a very powerful instrument. We can cause positive things to happen in our lives and set ourselves up for negative things to happen - just by our attitude and the way we carry ourselves. Yes, people have died in their sleep, but it's unlikely due to a bad dream, unless they had a failing heart and they somehow scared themselves to death. But even that seems like a bit of a stretch.

I don't think a dream can just stop your heart; however, if you have a weak heart and your blood pressure rises too high because of a dream i suppose it's possible, but I don't think you would die because you were shot in your dream, I've fallen miles in my dreams before and I'm still here

I have heard that you can die in a dream. If you dream that your falling and you hit the ground before you wake up then you will die. Of course this is just what I heard, but yeah life is full of mysteries so yeah.