Has anyone ever had a dream where you drown to death? I’ve had about 6 or 7, and it is one of the strangest feelings I’ve ever gotten in dreams. It’s usually incredibly realistic (for me), and as I breathe in under the water, I can actually feel the choking and the water filling into my lungs. The weirdest part is these aren’t even nightmares. I’m not afraid at all in the dream. It’s actually very peaceful after the initial struggle, and I come to terms with my death in the dream. I usually wake up after these dreams and feel very relaxed, and even almost happy.
I was just wondering if anyone has ever had a dream about drowning, because they seem so strange to me. It’s also strange because I’ve never had a fear of water or swimming.
Really? Whenever I’ve fallen in water and ran outta breath, I always discover I can breathe under the water. This often triggers lucidity for me too.
Breathing underwater an incredibly cool feeling, and is one of my favourite things to in an LD. It’s kind of like the nose-breath RC, only you can feel the water all around you.
I’ve actually thought about that and wondered why I’m not able to breathe underwater in my dreams. I guess I could try to use drowning as a dream-sign and then become lucid through that. That’d be interesting.
I’ve never dreamt of drowning (I’m actually quite capable of breathing underwater in dreams, and that’s triggered semi-lucidity once) but my girlfriend has had nightmares of drowning before, and she wakes up genuinely choking and gasping for breath, like her brain thought she was really drowning…
Khar Selim.
To the brain, the dream IS real. But, Couldn’t it be that she was choking IRL and the dream acommodated that with a drowning dream? I’ve heard of such things.
Kindda like how pain in real life is transferred into a dream. Lay in an awkard position, hurt your arm, and you’ll dream you’ve broken your arm or something. Happened to me plenty o’ times. Kind of annoying really, cos no matter what your dream-self does, you can’t actually lessen the pain.
I’ve only been in water once in my dreams, in an LD I walked across the surface and when I felt that it was time for me to wake up, I lied down on my back on the surface of the water and slowly sunk to the bottom. I remember looking up through the water and watching the sunlight “dance” (for lack of a better term) around as it was reflected within the water, a beautiful sight to behold. I slowly closed my eyes and felt the currents of the water caress my body as I continued to sink. Then I woke up.
I’ve only had 2 drowning dreams, and they were both when I was a kid. The first one freaked me out b/c I really couldn’t breath and thought for sure I was dying. In the second one I actually realized I was dreaming and had my first lucid dream, even though I had no actual knowledge of LDs at that time
