From: forget@it.co.za   
      
   "Brandi Drown"  wrote in message   
   news:1130476546.201148.266650@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...   
   >I have been searching all night on the topics of lucid dreaming, OBE's   
   > and sleep paralysis. I've had sleep paralysis since I'm 12 and I'm now   
   > 25. It usually happens when I'm very tired and I'm no longer scared of   
   > them, though they are annoying. Anyway, a friend of mine talked about   
   > lucid dreaming and to climb into a mirror. When I was having a bout of   
   > sleep paralysis, I was in and out of dreams but found my mirror on my   
   > dresser and climbed in it. I woke up back in my bedroom, and peered out   
   > into the living room. Most everything was gone except the TV and a few   
   > things. I heard my kids playing and my little girl ran up to me(in this   
   > dream/OBE). We had a small conversation, but since I knew I was   
   > dreaming I asked her "Did mommy die?" She nodded and said yes. I was   
   > completely flabergasted and asked when. She relied "thursday evening",   
   > I again said when and she said yesterday. I flipped out and back into   
   > the mirror. During this entire dream thing, my throat was completely   
   > numb and tingly. When I came out of this, it took almost 30 minutes to   
   > get complete feeling back in it, and I was so frightened I didn't know   
   > what to do with myself. I am so scared now, and trying to find out   
   > information on this. I want to read that it's not going to come true!!   
   > Any help please, I'm going crazy!!!   
   >   
      
   Dreams about death are normally contrary - they don't indicate that you are   
   going to die, just that you are going through a transition phase.  Various   
   different dream interpreters give different meanings for it, but none of   
   them are negative.   
      
    For example:   
      
     "If you dreamed of being dead yourself, it indicates an approaching   
   release from all your worries and/or a recovery from illness."  (Stearn   
   Robinson & Tom Corbett)   
      
   "The theme is a regular and recurring omen in dreamlore and is rarely (if   
   ever) to be feared as a forecast of actual death or as a portent of evil.   
   Death may be compared to the last chapter of a book, where the turning of   
   the final cover marks the closure of one particular way of being and the   
   birth of something unimaginable and new.  As a classic dream of contrary, a   
   vision of death signifies a fresh start and new beginnings." (Philip Clucas)   
      
   In addition, things in your living room that were left behind could also   
   have significance for you - you could do a search on the various items you   
   saw (in context of dreamlore) and see if you get any more clarity that way.   
      
   Please don't be frightened in waking state by these dreams, they can be   
   easily interpreted.  You are also free to change your dream; i.e. when you   
   go to bed tell yourself that you know you will dream and that it won't   
   frighten you but teach you something instead, you will somehow remember this   
   when you do start dreaming - or even have OBE experiences & it will help.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)