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I often have dreams in which I'm shot, and sometimes I die. It's never unpleasant, it's like I enjoy being shot. It's a wonderful feeling. In one dream a murderer with a gun has me cornered, and when he shoots me in the head, I can feel the warm and sticky blood when the back of my skull is shattered. It sounds disgusting, yes, but in my dream it wasn't.

And there's one dream I'll probably remember for the rest of my life. I'm a black cop, and my team is chasing a robber(?). Something goes wrong, and the criminal shoots me in the stomach with a rifle. I actually felt the tiny "bullets" (what's the correct word?) penetrating my skin and flesh.
I don't know for sure, but it might have something to do with a past life.


Any thoughts?
 
It could very well be a past life. Or it might be a dream. Or maybe it's a dream that borrows some of the feelings from a past life...

I once had a dream that my father shot me in the chest with a shotgun and I died. The blast and the death seemed very real. But I don't think this would ever happen in this life. My father owns no guns and I don't think he even knows anyone who owns a gun! But my thoughts about this are that perhaps I was killed by a shotgun in another life, and my dreaming mind used those memories to help construct a dream to work out some of the feelings I have toward my father. Does that make sense?

Interestingly, though, I didn't feel any pain even though I had felt the blast. I just knew I was dying. So it wasn't unpleasant for me, either. However, if I had felt as much pain as I would feel if it actually happened, I'm not sure I'd feel the same way!

Lib
 
This is an interesting topic! I've been shot, drowned and hanged in dreams, and what really made me wonder was that it didn't hurt at all (when I was hanged I felt silly because I couldn't stop my legs from kicking, but that was all). Those dreams are all PL memories, but I wondered about that peaceful feeling - it's good to know that others have had that kind of experience as well!

When I was shot, I also felt the bullet hit my chest, but it didn't hurt, it was more like bumping into something. Maybe our body's own opiates cancel out the pain in situations like these, and make us feel as if it isn't really happening to us (a kind of "detached" feeling, as if you've already left your body)?
 
Yes, Nathali, you know about my execution dream, and in that I was myself wondering why it didn't hurt. I didn't even realize at first I was dead, because I hadn't felt any pain. I think your thought on this make sense.

Karoliina

Ps. I'll email you soon!
 
I've been shot before in dreams before. It's weird. It is sorta like you become detached and can't really feel it, but it was quite enjoyable. I was running through this house, trying to escape from someone. I was how I looked in my past life, so I think this could've actually been a death memory, and I was shot in the back. I could feel the bullet just below the centre of my ribcage and it was strange. It was just a really odd feeling. Like a deep bruise as such. I wasn't afraid though. Maybe death isn't as scary as some people think :)
 
Or then we protect ourselves and forget the pain even when we can remember anything else. But being otherwise okay with dying is comforting. I mean I've had two PL dreams about dying, and I've felt at peace after my death both times.

Karoliina
 
The only dream I have had in which I was shot, was one in which I opened my front door to be shot by someone I couldn't see, coming from the right, and I faded to black immediately. That was the entire dream. No pain, just gone. It immediately made me cautious about people living in the building.

My next door neighbor, to my right, ended up being a real problem for several of us in the building. I never saw him, yet he went through my things, found my phone number, and used me for a reference for a loan. I avoided him whenever I heard him in the hall - easy, because he was loud! It turned out later that he made threats to others in the building before being evicted.
 
I often dream of a tension
i had a dream one night ,i was stuck in a wood with a few other people(i did not know who they were,never seen them before)
and it was very dark,perhabs very late at night...
and we folowed the path but there was a dark spot,with a house as far as i can remember,and if we entered it, there was a older man with a gun !
he ran up to us and shooted,it was like he wanted to kill us,he didnt like us to walk closeby he's house or somthing,dunno
we ran as far as posible but couldnt get out!
 
Last night I had another shooting dream, but this time I was the killer.

I was a psychologist hired by the police to help profile criminals. They had caught a murderer, and somehoe I was convinced they had the wrong guy. And while they let me alone with the killer (so I could "get inside his head"), I helped him escape. When we were outside the police station, he gave me a gun and said:
"You know what to do, right?"

He got away, and when the policemen came out to try and catch him, I shot all of them in the neck. They survived, but I was put in jail (of course).


An interesting fact is that I did a PL meditation in the evening. They said in the book to pay close attention to your dreams after this meditation. So I don't know what this could mean, if it even means anything...


(The book was Ted Andrews' How to Uncover Your Past Lives. )
 
That book is quite good in my opinion; I used it myself when I started to discover my past lives, but these days I can't meditate anymore without falling asleep ;) (I get lots of spontaneous memories, though.)

Maybe your dream is a "real" memory of what you did in a past life - could you identify the style of clothing, the looks of buildings, furniture etc.?
Or maybe it's a symbolic dream, but in that case only you could properly "decipher" it, I think. I'm not any good at dream interpretation, but I'm sure some other members could help you there!
 
Yes, it's probably a regular dream, because I didn't recognize any of the things you mentioned.
But it's interesting that my subconscious seems to be full of these images of guns and shooting. :)
 
One reason I became interested in reincarnation...

was because as a child, I had recurring dreams of being shot in the head. In the dream, there were two other people with me, and I would shut my eyes and feel this pure dread and knowing there was no way out of the situation. I just shut my eyes and hoped it wouldn't be as bad as it seemed like it would--but then it was just a pop and dark. I had this dream a lot when I was about five. I am certain it is past-life related because while I am imaginative, I also had no other experiences to draw on (this was all pre-cable TV and the like, in the 70's) and the dreams were so real.

As a really interesting note, about eight months ago, I had a panoramic x-ray at the dentist's which revealed a spot in my jaw that the dentist found alarming. He referred me to an oral surgeon who took one look at the x-ray and said it was "just a scarring in the bone." He said I may have been born with it--like a birthmark--or possibly I had banged my chin on a bike as a kid (or whatnot). So...odd. I'm always a skeptic, but that has me intrigued, given my dreams. I am also deaf in one ear, for no known reason. Again, who knows.

Just thoughts,
Kim
 
I got stabbed in one of my dreams before. I knew i was running away from this person who was going to hurt me and i was probably going to die. I remember running as fast as i could but he ended up catching me and stabbed me in different parts of my body. It was very disturbing. I can't say it was a PL memory or just a dream. It was the first and the last time i had someone stabbing me in my dreams also. It is still hard for me to identify if a dream is just a dream or a PL memory... :confused:

KimD, your story was quite interesting! Do you feel any pain in your mouth/ear?
 
Reynardine

"Those dreams are all PL memories"


How do you know this?

I remember a dream that I had where I was shot in the head. I too felt it exit and the hot blood on my skin just as the original poster did. I felt myself die but it wasn't incredibly horrible. It was..peaceful.

My son has multiple violent dreams. He has been shot. A little boy in one of his dreams shot himself. He's had dreams of men coming into our home and killing me. Most of his dreams are very specific..they almost borderline on gang activity. I've often wondered if this may be past life seeing as he doesn't watch adult t.v and we have always had a pretty quiet life..at least when it comes to our home life in respect to guns and stuff. He is also drawn to fighting. It comes very natural to him and when he argues with me, he does not argue like a 6 year old. He argues as though he is 15 or 16 with pure vengence. :(
 
One nite, I was relaxing and meditating, trying to achieve my life long dream of Astral Projection (no such lucky yet.)
Ne ways, I got really really relaxed, and then i fell asleep.
I remember having a dream of being in a jungle with a girl, around my age in the dream, maybe 14. But there were tigers, and she told me to hide and not to move, she hid somewhere else, and I barely was able to find this huge leaf to crouch and cover myself with before the tiger showed up. This thing was definatly bigger than I was. I stayed under the leaf for a bit, but then something came over me, and I just had to look to see where the tiger was. So I peeped out and it saw me. It was on me in an instant, its paws pressing down on my chest so i couldnt move, its seemed more curious than anything. Its huge head came at my face so i turned my head away looking at the dirt. It sniffed me for a few seconds, and then its mouth opened and its huge fangs bit into my skull. As I felt the fangs enter my head, I felt all the energy in my body slowly start to drain out. And I knew I was dying.
I much like everyone else, didnt really feel pain, i felt things, but it wasnt unpleasant. I remember the pressure that the tiger had to exzert on my skull before its teeth broke through was tremondous. That was the most unpleasant part of it.
By far, one of the most interesting dreams I've ever had.

So possibly, Perhaps these dreams are to help us get over our fear of death and thats why we dont feel any pain, and its mostly pleasant.
Or perhaps when we die, thats how it is. I dont think its out of place to say our guides and powers that be know when we are going to die, so why couldnt the shoot us full of an "astral morphine" right before death, so the experience is less tramatic?
 
In my dreams im getting chased by someone i know, but cant see his/her face. Im getting stabbed all over my body over and over again. Im screaming in my dreams, but im moaning in my sleep (if that makes sense). I can feel the pain sometimes, and sometimes i feel nothing. Its the same dream over and over again. No matter how hard i try to see my surroundings or try to talk to the person stabbing me, i cant do it. Ive had this dream over and over again in my life.

Ive also had dreams where ive been shot, felt the force of the shot but no pain. The force of the shot is what wakes me up from my dream.
 
As nearly I can remember, I have had a dream of being shot...odd, no pain at all...I don't think it has to do with a PL...and the dream was a one-off thing. I had been studying the history of the Soviet secret police at the time, so I think there is a fair chance that is what caused it...don't know...just think so.
 
Trisha,

I'm really sorry to hear about your dad :( .

To me it sounds like you might have been dealing with this issue in your dream, but it's hard to say. I think you know the answer if you listen to your intuition.

I wish you all the best,

Karoliina
 
Oh WOW, Trisha,

I am really sorry to hear about your dad. This dream, especially if it recurs might be a sign that you are trying to deal with what happened to him. I would look into counselling if you cannot resolve this...maybe a counsellor could ask your family to be forthcoming with some details in order to give you some idea if this is related to your dad, or if it might be past life in nature.
 
Being Killed or Shot in Dreams

I had this horrible dream last night... :(
I was bartending and a couple that was sitting a the bar left withouth paying their tab... Some people went after them... After all they ended up at the bar again and i got very upset about it and we had an argument... I left... The couple went after me... I remember running away... They were chasing me... The guy finnaly grabbed me and threw on the ground... His wife/girlfriend smashed my head with with a rock... :(

What a horrible dream!!! I didn't feel the pain but the feeling of trying to run away and knowing that i was going to die was very unpleasant. :(
I woke up right after the rock smashed my head...
I didn't recognize the couple but this dream made me think that it could be my first PL memory... Maybe that's why i hate idea of bartending, although i as offered this job many times before... :rolleyes:
 
Hi guys....This is my first time here....I had a dream once where I was shot.....I was in a house trying to save a friend and this guy pulled a gun on me. I saw another gun sitting on his desk and immediately grabbed it and started shooting. Unfortunately the gun just shot the whole bullet out the side. LOL....I looked at him and said, "How can you possibly have a gun in this house that doesn't work? Now what am I supposed to do?" And with that he shot me. No pain. I fell into the couch and felt peaceful as everything started to fade to black.

I always have dreams with guns in them. I'm always being shot at. Sometimes I don't die but my guns always fail. I am a great shot and I know how to use a gun. Needless to say in my dreams I am always frustrated. LOL
 
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Ailish
 
not long ago I had a dream in which I remembered what the feeling of dying was like. I was in a chair, and someone came and pushed me, not in a mean way or anything, though. I could feel myself falling backwards, and at that moment I thought to myself "Oh yeah!!! Now I remember what dying feels like!" It didn't hurt, it was just a strange, pretty cool, disconnection feeling. Different from, say, astral projection. I have another *memory* of dying, but that wasn't from a dream.
 
My niece recently had a dream where she was in a car accident and could feel her neck injury.......and felt it in her neck the whole next day.......We talked about it on the phone and I told her to write out her details clearly, because it was highly likely that she was remembering a past life.

Interesting how the traumatic endings come to people in dreams.........anyone else experience this?
 
Hmmm I can relate to the dream littlemoon mentioned about dying. I cant recall how I died in my dreams but do recall knowing I did die. It was blackness yet a feeling of calm and it was as if I was floating?!! kinda wierd.

But in all I dont mean to pee in anybodys pool here but I think its highly unlikely past life memories or events are likely to trigger any recollections in dreams. Well it may be possible but for the majority of us these bizarre and often violent dreams are a biproduct of our imaginations. Also possibly from thoughts concerning TV programs or movies we might have seen lately.
 
milkdrops said:
But in all I dont mean to pee in anybodys pool here but I think its highly unlikely past life memories or events are likely to trigger any recollections in dreams.
Could you please explain what you mean by this comment in more detail because I'm not sure I completely understand what you're saying.
 
Hello Moon. I just meant that I think that past life memories or past life events are more unlikely to be recollected in dream form. I think possibly maybe it might be possible but 9 times out of 10 for the average person i'd be willing to bet wierd dreams of what might seem like something someone could interpret as a past life, could just be biproduct of ones imagination.
 
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