Candy before bed, dream you're dead

[snopes]

Comment: Is there any truth to the old wives' tale that eating too much
sugar/candy before bed will give you nightmares?

[The Masked Doodler]

I had hot cocoa before going to bed last night, and had a nightmare, but it's hard to say if the two are related.

[kjbrasda]

Most of my nightmares happen when I'm too warm. I haven't noticed any corrolation with sugar consumption.

[Dactyl]

I was always told eating cheese before you go to bed gives you nightmares.

I personally have never noticed any link.

[jw]

Is it possible to dream you're actually being killed in a dream without waking? I posted over in another thread how I dreamed I was about to be killed and then woke up.
I don't think I've never ever actually been killed in a dream. end hijack/

[Esprise Me]

Originally Posted by jw

Is it possible to dream you're actually being killed in a dream without waking? I

Well, I suppose if you don't wake up, it probably wasn't a dream...

I once had a dream in which I committed suicide. I didn't wake up right away. I had time to watch my funeral before my alarm went off. The thing is, if you die in a dream, it's somewhat illogical for the dream to continue--after all, death stops consciousness, so unless you're going to have some out-of-body, immortal soul experience, there's nowhere else for the story to go. But if you stop dreaming and remain asleep, you probably won't remember the dream upon waking. So the only dreams of death you remember are the ones where you wake up when you die, even though those may not be the only times you dream of death. Does that make any sense?

[Beachlife!]

I dreamed I was dead last night, like a ghost and everything. I didn't have candy, but I did have cheese and crackers about 2 hours before bed.

[jw]

Originally Posted by Esprise Me

Well, I suppose if you don't wake up, it probably wasn't a dream...
I once had a dream in which I committed suicide. I didn't wake up right away. I had time to watch my funeral before my alarm went off. The thing is, if you die in a dream, it's somewhat illogical for the dream to continue--after all, death stops consciousness, so unless you're going to have some out-of-body, immortal soul experience, there's nowhere else for the story to go. But if you stop dreaming and remain asleep, you probably won't remember the dream upon waking. So the only dreams of death you remember are the ones where you wake up when you die, even though those may not be the only times you dream of death. Does that make any sense?

I got it. This makes perfect sense to me.

If I dream I die, and I don't wake up, I've actually died.
If I dream I die, and I fall back asleep, I don't die, but I'm unaware so this doesn't count.
If I dream I die, and then wake up, I don't die either.
So I'm right then?
Thanks for trying, btw.

[Not_Done_Living]

I had a dream where i turned into a zombie.. by being bitten by a zombie, and dying, then coming back... seeing the world as a zombie was very different in my dream then in movies.

I also had a very vivid dream where i was killed many times...

I was shot in the chest point blank.. fade to black
I was stabbed in teh stomach... fade to black
I fell from a window and hit the ground ... fade to black
I got hit by a car .. fade to black

i was TRYING to wake up.. but could not.

[Morrigan]

Originally Posted by jw

Is it possible to dream you're actually being killed in a dream without waking? I posted over in another thread how I dreamed I was about to be killed and then woke up.
I don't think I've never ever actually been killed in a dream. end hijack/

For me it is. I've been killed in several dreams, and never woken up. (Until I was supposed to.) In one dream, I died several times, and was reincarnated several times. It was a pretty cool dream, actually.

Morrigan

[kjbrasda]

Originally Posted by Not_Done_Living

I had a dream where i turned into a zombie.. by being bitten by a zombie, and dying, then coming back... seeing the world as a zombie was very different in my dream then in movies.

I also had a very vivid dream where i was killed many times...

I was shot in the chest point blank.. fade to black
I was stabbed in teh stomach... fade to black
I fell from a window and hit the ground ... fade to black
I got hit by a car .. fade to black

i was TRYING to wake up.. but could not.

Oooh, I had one sort of like that, except everytime it was the same thing killing me until I figured out how to stop it. I was driving down a road, and this big mean dog jumped through my windshield and mauled me to death, over and over until I fought back hard enough to stop it.

i ate cheese before i went to bed to see if that would give me nightmares, and all it gave me were the crazy dreams. like they were supposed to be scary, but they turned out insanely impossible.

Originally Posted by kjbrasda

Oooh, I had one sort of like that, except everytime it was the same thing killing me until I figured out how to stop it. I was driving down a road, and this big mean dog jumped through my windshield and mauled me to death, over and over until I fought back hard enough to stop it.

i also had a dream about something like that, but instead i was being killed by my loved ones (like my dad, my boyfriend, my best friend. i cried about the dad dream.) but i had weapons that i didn't know how to use. (like a knife, and gun. and other stuff) so, this made it more difficult becuz i love my father dearly, my best friend has always been there for me, and my boyfriend well...i don't like him alot but i didn't want to kill him. but then i learned that you had to think of the bad times, not the good times, so i thought of stuff that they did to make me mad. then i guess i killed them in my dreams. i know it is creepy but it's true. and now i'm kinda upset now that i reailize that people are gonna get creeped out by my dream. so just so you all know, i didn't mean to kill them in the dream! it was just for the dream to stop.

Originally Posted by Dactyl

I was always told eating cheese before you go to bed gives you nightmares.

I personally have never noticed any link.

i just got a wierd dream when i ate cheese before i went to sleep, not a scary dream. i dont exactly know about other people but this is wat happened to me.

i once had a dream where i kept getting killed by a giant golden retriever dog...

the first couple of times was scary, but i kept coming back to life...and after a while it wasn't so bad about him biting my head off all the time. it was just a bit annoying for the last few deaths

Originally Posted by Morrigan

For me it is. I've been killed in several dreams, and never woken up. (Until I was supposed to.) In one dream, I died several times, and was reincarnated several times. It was a pretty cool dream, actually.

Morrigan

II don't know. I always heard that if you actually die in a dream, you have a heartattack from the shock and really die in your sleep. Apparently that's not the case......

[Not_Done_Living]

Originally Posted by Chenoakr

II don't know. I always heard that if you actually die in a dream, you have a heartattack from the shock and really die in your sleep. Apparently that's not the case......

Things like this are really hard to prove.. how do they know the person who died of a heart attack in their sleep was having a nightmare?

Originally Posted by Not_Done_Living

Things like this are really hard to prove.. how do they know the person who died of a heart attack in their sleep was having a nightmare?

That's true. Maybe it was just a story I heard to scare people.

[FullMetal]

Originally Posted by jw

Is it possible to dream you're actually being killed in a dream without waking? I posted over in another thread how I dreamed I was about to be killed and then woke up.
I don't think I've never ever actually been killed in a dream. end hijack/

I've dreamt that I drowned.. but I killed myself to escape something... it was a very bizarre dream.

So I have died in my dream without waking, and like gwlith I "came back to life" shortly afterwards. but I was able to escape...

[threehead_99]

this one time back in like 3rd grade i dreamed me and one of my friends (still friends btw) were arguing, and he hit me in the shoulder, so i hit him back, and his head came off, rock 'em sock 'em robots style, but fell to the floor.... the teacher came back over, put his head back on, and called our parents in and i had to apologize to him for it... but i dont think candy induced it