"  Is it really a far stretch that if your brain thinks its dying that it shuts down your active body? "

What do you believe?

I swear sometimes I sometimes dream of really random and obscure events that happen in the future. 

" I swear sometimes I sometimes dream of really random and obscure events that happen in the future.  "

" One thing that connects us all. But what do they mean? There are many theories about what dreams are for and why we have them but as far as i know there isn't a way we can prove it. Some say dreams are a way for our minds to clean out a closet of memories good and bad, Some say its a way to take a mundane life and turn it into an exciting adventure but noone knows for sure. One funny thing about dreams is that some can remember their dreams. Others like me only know I had one and as time progresses we become incapable of remembering it. They say if you die in your dreams that your body dies along with it. That has to be tough to prove but it doesn;t mean it can't happen. After all dreams effect your moods and feelings directly. When you dream of love you wake up with feelings of love, when you dream of fear you wake up in terror, when you dream of pain you wake up in pain. Since its fairly obvious your dreams are linked to your brain. Is it really a far stretch that if your brain thinks its dying that it shuts down your active body? "

I'm no psychological expert but I have an A level in psychology and have had an interest in it for a number of years. I think it's a ridiculously big stretch to say that if you die in your dreams you die in real-life. Dreams are a very interesting area of psychology, although I would like to throw one theory into the mix you haven't mentioned. While not the most exciting theory, activation synthesis theory suggests that dreams are just random brain activity in your sleep which our minds attempts to make sense of. Overall I don't have a single solid belief about the cause of dreams, there are a number of plausible theories and yet not enough proof that any of them are right or wrong for me to really make my mind up.