Either I Wake Up or I Die!

[quddus]

Hey People! Well, this is the first time I came to this site, and it sounds amazing like that Vanilla Sky movie with Penelope Cruz (I know, Tom Cruise also, but Penelope Cruz is way hotter!) But I have to say that this has happened to me quite a few times in the past without me even trying, but mine were kind of different. Like whenever I'd have dreams, I'd realize that I was dreaming and there's this urge inside of me that's telling me that I NEED to wake up or I'm going to die for some reason. Once I had a dream that I was sleeping and I couldn't breathe, and then I woke, and I couldn't breathe! I ran outside to my living room and I was trying to scream to my dad for help but it was late morning and he had left for work already, and I walked outside, the sun was shining and I couldn't breathe! Then I realized that I WAS STILL DREAMING! Then I could feel, in reality reality, that I couldn't breathe, and I thought, my gosh, I HAVE TO WAKE UP OR I'M GOING TO DIE! And it was so hard to force myself to wake up, it was a struggle, then I forced myself up, my body slowly lifted up and I awoke, and when I awoke, I COULDN'T BREATHE FOR REAL!!! So I ran outside to my living room, tried to scream for my dad but couldn't, and ran ouside. Only then did I realize that I had to breathe through my mouth, and that just moments before I awoke that my body really couldn't breathe because my sinuses were horribly clogged that morning, and if any of you have sinus problems, you know that it's impossible to breathe through your nose unless you take medicine, or use a Vicks Inhaler. And it would have been impossible for my body to do that while sleeping, and when I awoke a pillow was blocking my mouth, so I REALLY WAS CHOKING TO DEATH and if I didn't wake up, I could have REALLY DIED, and amazingly, I realized this and the weird thing is, the dream precluded the future in that I did in instinct the exact same thing I did in the dream. Isn't that amazing! This happened to me a quite number of other times as well, but in different circumstances, but about 2 times that happened where I woke up hyperventilating unable to breathe, and a number of other times where I went to sleep, woke up and weird things happened and then I realized I was dreaming, and then I woke up, and realized that I was still dreaming. That would be neat if they could really find a way to program it, complete with full medical methods and analogies, in computers to where they hook you up to a machine and you lucid dream for as long as you like, like in Vanilla Sky. If you haven't watched that, and you're in this forum, then I suggest you rent that movie right away. It's a bit psychotic, in different, not always but often, good ways, like dreams.

[ffx-dreamz]

First off, Welcome to the forums my friend!!This calls for a dancing banana! Second, that would scare the shit out of me..

[Seeker]

Welcome!!!!! Sounds like a scary experience. Do you also suffer from sleep apnia? You know, where you sometimes stop breathing when you fall alseep? I know one person that does, but he always wakes up whenever his breathing stops.

[Lowercase Society]

Welcome to Dream Views! This seems pretty bad...do you have a doctor that can explain this in further detail, or do you have lung problems, anxiety disorders? This all would be helpful, in my explenation.

[Corkdog]

Whoa that must have been scary. Were you sick when that happened? If not you should see an ear nose and throat doctor.

[Umbrasquall]

He probably seen doctors if he has medication for it. I think dreaming helped you then. Because you could have choked had your mind not reacted in your sleep to the pillow blocking your mouth. But all that aside. Welcome!

[Corkdog]

you should thank your lucky stars that happened Gotta try this; WELCOME

[Truthbearer]

Don't worry, as far as I know it is impossible to die that way. Your dream was a product of your brain, which was trying incorporate what is really going on to the dream world, trying to preserve the state of sleep. Same concept as when you incorporate your alarm into a dream, or if you are sleeping in a way that hurts you arm, it will have a certain effect on your dream as well. Its the way your body incorporates and manifests what is going on around you... However your survival instinct will not allow you to maintain an unconscious state and will not let you just die....