When I was younger my brother told me that if you had one of those dreams where you were falling, and you hit the ground and died in your dream, you really died. I always shocked myself awake during those dreams, until one night I dreamed I hit the ground, and woke up just fine.
A childhood belief about sleeping
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you dreamed you were falling and you hit the ground, you'd die in your sleep.— Knoot
- I, to this day, believe that when I can't sleep at night it means I'm awake in someone else's dreams... — Turner
- I thought the song Shattered Dreams was acutaly "Shadow Dreams" and wondered what shadow dreams were— Golgademon
- I used to believe that when you visited a graveyard, the ground would suck you in and that is how you died.— Megan
- I used to think that dreams were events that really happened, I just couldn't remember them when I was awake.— Warren
- i thought split personalities were like having dreams. the dreams i had were all my personalities!— Odd Dreamer