Died! What could this mean?!

I had a dream a few years ago, but I was never really sure what it meant. I had asked a couple of people, and they too were bewildered by it. In the dream I was being chased by a man and while I was still sleeping, he stabbed me and I died. I always thought if you died in a dream, you died in real life. What could this really mean?

It doesn't mean you're going to actually die. I've died in my dreams plenty. I've even died, come back as a ghost, and haunted people!

Your a zombie. (: