very bizarre life like dream of nearly dying can anyone help

[duke amy]

i am currently doing night shift so each night i try and have a few hours nap, it is only over a few hours and i dont think i sleep at all. last night i woke up for the hundreth time and checked my watch then i immedeiatley i either had a heart attack or i got hit by lighting ( very stormy night) anyway i am shaking on my bed and having convulsions i am trying my best to fight it i manage to get to the floor and basically crawl out to my car all a while i am blind, i think to my self i have to get to the hospital. i then awake realising its a dream i am not sweating or in bad way, now in my dream everything is just like it is in real life ex
my bedroom, the hall way, and where my car is parked, it was very life like i thought it was actually real, can anyone out their shed some light?

[Anniebugs]

Tough dream! I am by no means an expert at this, but it seems to me what I call an "obligation" dream in which we imperatively have to do something. in your case getting yourself to the hospital against all odds. I have had them in other varieties such as having to get to an airport on time, crossing a highway with heavy traffic, being unable to find my kids, having to do something important and struggling against all those things that block the task on hand. I have heard a few interpretations of them such as that, as frightening as they are, their purpose is to help us subconciously release built-up stress and anxiety. That's the one I have ended up giving more credit to over the years.

Other more literal interpretations might suggest that your body is "trying to tell you something" but I have never had one dream that could be taken literally so I am not much into that line of thought. It's only a personal opinion.

[duke amy]

yeah thanks for the reply, still quite unsure of what it meant, hopefully it doesnt happen to often