Keep on dreaming
That sounds good.
But what if you die in your dream?
Have you ever died in one of your dreams?
Is it even possible to die in your own dream?
It happened to me a couple nights ago - so it made me curious.
I'd always heard that it's impossible to die in your own dream -
that the fear of dying would wake you up before you actually died -
and so the dream would end just before the moment of death -
and then you'd wake up - alive, but probably with some amount of fear.
That scenario is something I've experienced many times -
waking up just before it happened -
and kind of shaken by the experience.
But the other night was different .
So I decided to check it out.
I've found all sorts of studies that take every possible position -
- it can happen -
- it can't happen -
- it can happen -
but only when one dreams in the 3rd person -
as an "observer" of ourselves in the dream -
not when we are the actual person in the dream.
In any case -
wherever the authors felt that it was possible to die in the dream -
there was also the concept of fear being involved -
increased heart rate -
faster breathing -
some sort of feeling both emotional and physical about the fear of dying.
But that didn't happen to me either.
So - what did happen?
I was in some foreign country - don't know where, just that it wasn't home -
I was helping people -
someone didn't like what I was doing -
I was captured -
then I was told to lay down & I was shot.
I remember thinking - "This is starting to hurt" - as the bullet hit me.
No fear - no panic - not even much pain - just "This is starting to hurt".
But before the thought even finished -
there was no more pain at all -
and I was in Heaven.
For a while, I was just thanking God -
that I was in Heaven - that He saved me.
It was all very peaceful.
Then I saw my wife - who was already there.
(She's still alive and well in this life)
She started telling me about what Heaven was like and how we could do all these things that we weren't capable of in this life on earth.
Then I woke up.
No fear.
No panic.
Just very peaceful.
I originally wrote this on January 14, 2012.
<span style="font-size: 14px; color: #993300;">Since I'm moving it from my old site to here, I'll add updates in text like this, so you can see what's added today - August 17, 2016.</span>
What to make of this?
There could be different conclusions from this -
maybe try to read into it something about Heaven -
maybe something about whether I die after my wife -
probably a bunch of other things.
For me - it reminded me of Matthew 10:28 - where Jesus is talking to His disciples before sending them out to start their ministry -
Mt 10:28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
What follows immediately below are things from work.
Now - I'm retired, after being forced out by a VP who needed to save his own job.
I just now looked back for what I wrote during / after that experience, and found that I'd written something, but for whatever reason never published it. I'm sure God has a reason for me never hitting that publish button. After I finish updating this one and another related to it - I'll go back and check that one out.. I'll put a link in here, as well as one that's also being brought over from the old site - "why do bad things happen?
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Things haven't exactly been going smoothly as of late -
lots of things happening. If you're not a regular reader - you can check out this previous article that talks about some of them. After these events, there was also a problem at work where an outside contractor made a huge mistake and caused a project that should have taken 8 hours over two days to turn into a 5 day long disaster.
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