Have you ever legitimately believed you were about to die? What's the story?

Just last night. I was trying to sleep over the sounds of thunder, because every now and then, it would stop for a short amount of time, and I’d try to get some sleep in during the grace period. One of the times, I drifted off a little bit and was in kind of half-asleep and half-awake, so I could see around my room and I knew I wasn’t fully asleep, but I could still kind of see my dream. I started to hear a sound that sorta sounded like just the first two notes of megalovania, but it was playing over and over and over again, and I couldn’t breath at ALL during it. I thought I was going to die, because I couldn’t breath, just open my mouth and hope something gets out. Eventually after about 15 seconds I could breath again, but not well until about 30 seconds after it.

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