I mean, you'll notice you never actually ever "die" in a dream, you'll always wake up right before it would happen.
so possibly yes.
I've thought about this a lot. Most of my dreams would be pretty horrifying in reality, but I'm never particularly alarmed. I've had some bad nightmares but it almost seems as though I've become conditioned to the macabre.
Death is my primary lucidity trigger. I've been in situations where I had taken sleep medication so I wouldn't wake up easily. I then proceeded to die in a nightmare--If I recall correctly, I fell off a cliff and got hit by a car. But I didn't wake up, and I didn't feel any pain, so the whole thing just clicked that it was a reality--my first lucid dream. This is why I always say that people don't die in their own dreams--you'll either wake up before death or you'll go lucid, either way avoiding death. My dreams never start lucid, but I'll always injure myself or kill myself in some way, usually by falling. When nothing happens, I go lucid. Lucidity doesn't mean that you control the dream or even your own actions like people say, though. It just means you realize you're dreaming. If you realize you're dreaming in a dream and believe you have control, your mind will continue to dream as if you had control in that dream. That's why people say that they could do crazy things when really their mind just *believed* they could do crazy things and did the things itself.
