I've died in 4 seperate dreams?

Question

I thought you couldn't die in your dreams?

I'm not depressed or suicidal or anything... actually I'm very happy right now. No one close to me has died recently either

But I am very curious about death. Anyway here are the dreams:

1. I am in a room with a kidnapper with my family. He shoots me first for no reason... I lay in my chair, but can hear what is going on around me as my family breaks free

2. I am on top of a statue at columbia college. Out of some ridiculous desire/curiosity I jump to see what death feels like. My vision blurs, as I think my last thoughts... then I am on top of the tower again

3. I die of an illness (vision and sound fades) and meet god (actually I don't believe in god). we play, get this, the game of life, and I get to return to earth to play one last show with my band

4. I am on a boat. there is a murderer loos on the boat... i run into him on an emergency raft and he shoots me in the head, i feel no pain but my vision blurs slowly, then I am back in my room and the dream starts over (although this time i don't die at the end)

I promise I'm a normal person... I know 2 and 4 are similar, does anyone have any insight into this. These dreams are all true, told exactly as I had them

Answer 1

All I get from this is that you need to get your eyes checked. Apparently you get blurry vision too often. :(

Answer 2

Death can mean a bunch of different things, but rarely does it imply the physical death.

If you notice, in 3 of the dreams, after you reach what you think is a rotten conclusion, the dream starts over. The 'death' in the dreams therefore is not so much a worry about dying but more of a worry about a decision you have made, or are thinking about making, that you worry you can't go back from. Since 1 of the dreams had you as a suicide, and its a well-known fact that the people who populate our dreams are oftentimes simply our projections of others and ourselves, I think the murderer and kidnapper are both symbolic of how you see yourself, as being examples of your own worst enemy, or are meant someone who you think of as your own worst enemy.

The family breaking free after the kidnapper shoots you is interesting. It suggests that after you 'die', the death of your ego self sets the rest of yourself free. If you think of yourself as getting in the way of yourself, then the dreams are all about you getting to the point (illustrated in dream 3 where you play the game of life with God, really another version of yourself, this time powerful and in control) where you can change the decisions you know are bad. When you do that, you no longer make the bad decisions, die, that you think you are making (or will make) and thus can move on with your life.