Hi Richard,
It's interesting that there are degrees of lucidity in dreams. In some of the ones I have, I do not become lucid until after the event.
Have you ever died in one of your dreams? I have a few times. In this one dream I was being chased by some bad guy who was riding a horse. I ran up this hill and I thought that I outsmarted him. I heard this noise and saw the horse running by riderless as I turned around, realizing I'd been tricked - I was killed. All went black. There was no pain and I do remember marveling at the brilliance my killer had in technique. Odd that I would find that particular thing impressive. lol
In another dream, I actually died slower. It's a rather interesting dream so I'll give a bit more detail.
Dream: I'm sitting in the waiting room at a doctor's office and suddenly I keel over. I can feel my body hit the ground and am aware of my consciousness fading. I can hear the people around me freaking out, someone yelling for an ambulance to be called. I do not feel any pain and I can not move. It is like I am inside my body and outside it at the same time.
I lose consciousness of "that" world and find myself falling through some kind of void (colors swirling - like getting sucked through a vacuum). I find myself standing in my parents back yard and all these nasty things (demons?) are flying around me and at me. I somehow manage to banish them and back into the vacuum void I go. Overall, this was a really scary part of the dream. So many things were happening so fast. I was confused and in a bit of shock because of the suddenness of what was happening to me and around me.
Eventually all this stops and I find myself in some kind of office where this attendant comes up to me and says, "Sorry I had to pull you out like that but I've got an assignment for you. Here's the folder of the personality you will assume". I see the folder but didn't get a chance to read it and before I know it I'm in a city in the U.S..
My mind tells me it's Dallas Texas and the body I am in is not my own. I don't remember very much more detail of the dream other than I was some girl and some guy was going to try to rape and kill me and my "job" was to get her out of the situation alive, which I did and then the dream ended.
Any one else have any bizarre death or near death experiences in a dream?
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