Death in dreams?

[Stookie]

It's common for death in a dream to be symbolism of something coming to an end, or fear of something ending, like a relationship or school or job or quitting smoking or moving, etc. The good thing is that death comes right before rebirth.

[Naykid]

I once killed myself in a dream and continued in it as a ghost... I think. The memories are really vague by now and I never wrote any of it down.

That is totally fascinating!  Did you feel like you were yourself, or someone different?  Were you depressed in the dream?  When you were in the process of killing yourself, did you have any thoughts of why you were doing it, or where you might end up?  What did you do as a ghost? 

Sorry about all the questions, but I've never heard of someone killing themselves and I find this really interesting.  Thanks for sharing! 

Oh, yeah I've been shot, stabbed, buried alive.. fallen off mountains, and in a plane... there are so many, I can't recall them all right now.  In the plane one, I slammed into the ground with dirt and debris all around me and I started hearing music... for a split second I was like...hmmmm.. then I realized it was my radio next to my bed that I was hearing. 

[Naykid]

It's common for death in a dream to be symbolism of something coming to an end, or fear of something ending, like a relationship or school or job or quitting smoking or moving, etc. The good thing is that death comes right before rebirth.

lol well that explains a lot of my dreams.  My whole life as spent trying to learn and grow. 

[manwesulimo2004]

That is totally fascinating!  Did you feel like you were yourself, or someone different?  Were you depressed in the dream?  When you were in the process of killing yourself, did you have any thoughts of why you were doing it, or where you might end up?  What did you do as a ghost? 

Sorry about all the questions, but I've never heard of someone killing themselves and I find this really interesting.  Thanks for sharing! 

Oh, yeah I've been shot, stabbed, buried alive.. fallen off mountains, and in a plane... there are so many, I can't recall them all right now.  In the plane one, I slammed into the ground with dirt and debris all around me and I started hearing music... for a split second I was like...hmmmm.. then I realized it was my radio next to my bed that I was hearing. 

Well, like I said I don't remember too much. But I think I was running from something. I eventually reached a kind of artificial cliff (kind of like being at the top of a dam and looking down) and considered jumping off as an escape.
Erm, yeah. Then it gets kind of weird. Your question about whether I felt like myself is most appropriate because I think after that I watched "myself" just wondering (floating) around as a ghost (very stylised, almost cartoonish) close to the body. It didn't really feel like it was me though.
I woke up after that so it was just enough to realise I(?) had become a ghost but nothing much really happened after that.

Thinking about it now, I had a dream just a few days ago (I have written notes this time, yay!) in which I switched perspectives or something along those lines. Bottom line is that after waking up I wasn't really sure which character of the dream had been "me". I just opened a new thread about it.

[Naykid]

Well, like I said I don't remember too much. But I think I was running from something. I eventually reached a kind of artificial cliff (kind of like being at the top of a dam and looking down) and considered jumping off as an escape.
Erm, yeah. Then it gets kind of weird. Your question about whether I felt like myself is most appropriate because I think after that I watched "myself" just wondering (floating) around as a ghost (very stylised, almost cartoonish) close to the body. It didn't really feel like it was me though.
I woke up after that so it was just enough to realise I(?) had become a ghost but nothing much really happened after that.

Thinking about it now, I had a dream just a few days ago (I have written notes this time, yay!) in which I switched perspectives or something along those lines. Bottom line is that after waking up I wasn't really sure which character of the dream had been "me". I just opened a new thread about it.

I don't know if I would consider that suicide.  It's like being trapped in a burning building, you're just having to choose between which way to die.  I see suicide as making a conscious, individual choice.  Not one that is pushed upon you.

Thanks for explaining it more and thanks for the link.