Have you ever experienced "urom"? It's a Cebuano term for its closest English counterpart "nightmare" but it's more than just a nightmare. If you've experienced this phenomenon, you're one of the lucky people who surpassed it. If it's been randomly recurring in your lifetime, then let me give you some notes so you could survive once more!
- hyperventilation, sweating and irregular breathing pattern
- it's usually associated with great fear or other strong emotions
- you perceive things very vividly that you construe reality from mere perception (lucid dreaming may occur-you can control the things around you and the events that you want to happen in that distorted reality)
And the most difficult part is to realize that you're under a dream.
You must wake up before it's all too late!
So how do you check reality?
1. Try to navigate the place - go out and explore as much as you can!
2. We've been surrounded by technology, so check if your gadgets don't fail. My personal accounts: can't call or send text messages using mobile phone, can't send email or IM, light switch malfunctioned
If
If you've checked reality and you are strongly convinced that you're lost in a dream, the next problem would be to wake your body up before it physiologically shuts down and leave you in an infinite state of limbo - an understatement of DEATH!
Now, how do you push yourself to wake up?
1. Look at your hands and shake them as much as you can! Or move your pinky finger!
2. Stomp your feet to the ground with force! 
3. Grab or reach anything around you with all your might until you get it!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------These tips will surely be of great help but you can never cheat DEATH! After all, no one knows when your time comes! To die while sleeping is better than to wake up in a hell-like Earth and eventually die because of humanity's animosity!
(PS: My death-defying experience is yet to be continued because I'm too sleepy and ready to experience another dream! Hopefully, it's something inspiring this time!)
You can share your death-defying dreams here too. They are greatly appreciated! ^^
ReplyDeleteI dreamt I am tickled to death, literally. And the one tickling me was 'kamatayan'. Duno the english term. Basta the skull thingy with hoody. In my dream, I was laughing to death.
ReplyDeletePhysiologically, when we dream, we are actually in a state of "Rapid Eye Movement" or REM phase of sleeping. Although science has never completely explained this process, it has something to do with stress. Those people who are more stressed undergo these kinds of sleep more frequently.
ReplyDelete@Astigsweet: tickled to death. nice way of dying. at least you're happy and you weren't stabbed to death by the death hook...were you able to realize in that exact moment that it was just a dream? ^^
ReplyDelete@Jackie: Am I that stressed? hehe. But yeah, partly stress-related. ^^