Last night, I almost died

Not really, I just had a dream where I almost did, but it felt real, even when I woke up. I've heard that if you actually die in a dream, you actually die in real life. I'm not sure how that could be credited or discredited, maybe if someone died in a dream and then woke up and wasn't dead, and then told people about it, but that doesn't really matter and isn't my point. My point is my dream.

So I picked it up in the middle of the situation, or at least that's what I can remember, but I was someplace that wasn't a hospital, but it felt like it, surrounded by a couple of guys who seemed to be doctors, and I had a collapsed lung or something. Maybe I was just in a car accident or something, but whatever happened, I was struggling to breath. The doctors knew there was a problem, and that it was serious, so they made the decision that I needed to be opened up so they could re-inflate my lung. They open me up, take some little tool, and punch a hole through my sternum into my lung. Mind you, this whole time, I am having serious trouble breathing, and I'm kind of panicking because of it, plus the doctors are in a kind of a panic, so it has the whole emergency room tension, yet it's not an emergency room. After the hole is punched, somehow I am looking into my chest cavity and into the hole, like a 3rd person view. After the fact, this was kind of weird, like looking at myself as another person. Anyways, the consensus is that they need to stick a tube through the hole into my lung, and somehow that will relieve the problem. So I, being this other person, stick a tube into the hole, but the hole isn't big enough. So they get the tool out again, and make the hole bigger, all while I (the me being drilled into) am watching. Then, the 3rd person me attempts to stick the tube in again, and this time it goes in.

Immediately after this, I am the one with the tube in my chest, and I sit up and gasp as if whatever was hindering my breathing was just relieved. As I do, a bunch of blood spurts out of the tube, and I make the connection (in my dream) that this was all in my lungs, and I was basically choking to death on my own blood.

Then I woke up and sat straight up in my bed, just like in the movies. This was somewhere around 6 in the morning. What was crazy is that my chest was sore right where the hole was in my dream. So I feel around, and obviously nothing was there, but it was a little weird. It also felt like I had been struggling to breath, like I was out of breath still. This was all weird, and made me think, what if I was actually choking in real life, and if I hadn't dreamed that the pressure was relieved, what would have happened? It was pretty crazy. I don't think I've ever had a dream like that, and while I'm writing this, it's still really vivid in my head.

Sounds like the premise to a bad movie doesn't it? My brain is trying to kill me and all that. But don't worry, I'm alive, just wanted to share my near-death experience with you.