If you stop dreaming, you start dying

Michael Jackson and Bubbles

Jackson may be the only human ever to go two months without REM — rapid eye movement — sleep, which is vital to keep the brain and body alive. The 60 nights of propofol infusions Dr. Conrad Murray said he gave Jackson to treat his insomnia is something a sleep expert says no one had ever undergone.

Lab rats die after five weeks of getting no REM sleep, he said. It was never tried on a human until Murray gave Jackson nightly propofol infusions for two months

Source:Expert: Michael Jackson went 60 days without real sleep

When you stop dreaming

What’s this got to do with you and me? A lot of people sleepwalk through life having no real dreams. Somewhere along the line we’ve lied to ourselves and believed a lie that chasing dreams is for kids, that we’re grown-ups now, that we need to make the best with what we have, just get through this day and forget about tomorrow.

  • Michael Jackson died after 60 days of no REM sleep. He had no dreams for two months.
  • Some people haven’t really dreamt in decades.

When you stop dreaming, you start dying

In the last days, God says,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your young men will see visions,
your old men will dream dreams.
Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days,
and they will prophesy.

Acts 2:17-18


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6 responses to “If you stop dreaming, you start dying”

  1. loperon Avatar

    jesus man, these are indeed powerful words … I loved this post…. I dont know about the MJ part but I guess its a good intro though ;)….

  2. WILLIE WILLIAMS Avatar
    WILLIE WILLIAMS

    I HAVE ONE QUESTION TO ASK THOSE WHO ARE READING THIS!
    WHO GAVE YOU PERMISSION TO STOP DREAMING

  3. Dustin J Eitniear Avatar
    Dustin J Eitniear

    I had a traumatic brain injury and I was having bizarre dreams and more dreams about my service in Iraq, then they stop. I haven’t dreamed in 18 months, what should I do?

    1. T.P.D Avatar
      T.P.D

      It might not necessarily be that you aren’t dreaming. It might be that you have been dreaming but you just don’t remember them. Sometimes I dream vivid dreams and other times I wake up and don’t remember dreaming at all. So it might not be that you aren’t dreaming, just that you aren’t remembering.

  4. Dana Avatar
    Dana

    I haven’t remembered a dream in about 2 decades.

  5. Bob Avatar
    Bob

    This is so bull, MJ died of mixing meds and had nothing to do with not getting REM sleep at all, that’s one way to scare people

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