Why do we wake up right after dying in a dream?
Inception isn't?You don't actually die in a dream, close enough is when you’re about to die (probably as a result of a danger).No one can actually say I died this second in my dream, few seconds to the death are always not knownWhen you're close to being dead in a dream, your heart either beats so fast you wake feeling your chest pounding or the pain about to cause your death (in the dream) wakes you.There is a science behind this;When you dream you're in REM sleep (rapid eye movement). REM sleep is only slightly deeper than stage 1 of non-REM which means it's not hard to wake up in the first place.Dying in a dream is a stressful event, which causes your brain to release adrenaline. You can't sleep and have an adrenaline rush at the same time so you wake up.These dreams where you die and wake up are usually more memorable due to the fact that you wake up whereas most people don't remember 95% of their dreams.Being particularly scary or threatening, nightmares can provoke ‘fight and flight’ responses, and the release of adrenalin whilst we are still asleep.
3 nights in a row of dreams full of death?
I am assuming that you are very close to 'Freckles'. I say this because your dream is/was basically playing a game of Clue: whodunnit. What your subconscious mind picked up on, at least three days ago, was that something was wrong, somewhere in the house. In addition, what your subconscious mind also picked up on was that someone close to you was about to die. And so, your mind has spent the last three days 'eliminating' suspects, trying to imagine who was going to die and how? Since everyone in your house seems relatively healthy, your idea of death has to be messy and weird and traumatic, for that is how children visualize the big questions in life. They don't realize that death can be seen in the small twitchings of a muscle, a set of ruby red eyes slowly glazing over in pain and suffering, too sick to move. Your subconscious mind was preparing you to accept Freckle's death, and it is very close now.
Why do I forget my dreams immediately after I wake up?
Dreams are—to oversimplify a bit—like “screensavers” for our brains. Largely random assortments of image built on the seemingly random noise and associations of your subconscious just to keep the little grey cells fit. Since they’re only really of any practical use to your body or mind while you’re having them, and not while remembering them, our brains naturally consider these memories “worthless” and deliberately neglect to commit them to long-term memory (more successfully for some than for others). As soon as the short-term memory of them fades, they’re gone.You can, however, train your brain to regard them with more interest and not throw them out so heedlessly. Takes a long-ass time, but it’s possible. All you’ve got to do is take a genuine and persistent interest in the content of your dreams and actively try to remember. Regularly writing down whatever you manage to remember helps. Don’t be discouraged if you don’t see results immediately. Brains a stubborn critters, and subconscious habits are even harder to break than the regular sort (both for neurological reasons and because you don’t consciously realize you’re doing ‘em), but they’ll start to give in if you keep at it long enough.
What does a heart attack feel like?
I had a major heart attack in 2014, and here is my story:I woke up not feeling well - I couldn’t explain it… I just didn’t feel well.Around 9am, my mother and father stopped by; they had gone to the stations of the cross at the church right down the road. I began feeling a pain in my right arm, but I tried to ignore it. My mother looked at me and said that I didn’t look well, but I told her I was fine, so her and my father left.So, it was just me and my 23 year old son. He saw me rubbing my arm and asked me what was wrong. I told him I wasn’t sure - that it was like a pressure pain that was moving up my arm. He said it sounded like a heart attack, and I laughed because I thought that I was too young for a heart attack. In 2014 I was going to be 43, I believe.Anyhow, I told him that I was going to take a hot shower and put the water on my arm but that I was going to leave the door open in case I needed him to call someone. I got in the shower. At that point, the pain was in my upper arm and neck. I stood under the hot water and aimed on my neck, but it did not help. I was uncomfortable, but I managed to get out and get dressed.I then told my son that maybe a nap would make me feel better, but after just two minutes of lying down, I was too uncomfortable to bear it. I thought that I would do a breathing treatment to make myself feel better. To this day, I still wonder why in the world I thought that a breathing treatment would be effective even though I was breathing just fine and the pain was in my arm and neck.Anyway, I took out my nebulizer and albuterol and started the machine. I took one deep breath and the pain shot up from about a 5 to past a 10. I cried for my son to call 911.I made it to the local hospital, and they performed many tests and gave by nitro glycerin four times. They then stabilized me so that I could fly in the Flight for Life helicopter into the city for emergency surgery. In the city, I had a stent put in. That night, the nurse accidentally opened up my surgical site and blood splattered everywhere, making me lose so much blood that I needed two transfusions.I was told that I was lucky to be alive, and that I should have come in to the hospital when I first felt the pain in my arm and neck, and that that would have saved me a lot of trouble. I also suffered a mild brain injury because I didn’t have enough oxygen going to my head.
Anybody like these songs or bands?
You've picked some real classics. I don't listen to much rock these days, but in the last 24 hours I've played: Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon - Living In The Country Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris - Beachcombing Rusted Root - (not Rain, but the Cruel Sun cd) Mark Knopfler - Don't Crash The Ambulance & Nick Drake - River Man (but I listen to Nick Drake most mornings before bed) I just came back from the library where I picked up: Ultimate Billie Holiday John Cale - Vintage Violence Patti Smith - Trampin' Tori Amos - Boys for Pale & Widespread Depression Orchestra - Downtown Uproar and Boogie in the Barnyard