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Are Killer Nightmares Real?

A Promotional image of Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

The short answer is no. You will not die in real life if you die in a dream. However, it's also impossible to know if one who died in their sleep also died in their dream. But many people, myself included, have had killer nightmares, in that we were killed in our dreams, but have lived to tell the tale. The…