I used to have dreams where I'd die and then wake up, too.
My god, what horrors my mind can come up with... 
The odd thing is, I would never come up with the same stories while awake. I suppose that's why authors/song writers always quickly write down what they've dreamt as soon as they wake up.
I've only had one chess-related dream... I was playing online, but then the timer shot down to zero all of a sudden, and then a few chess pieces in front of me exploded and destroyed laptop. That's all I can recall, but I'm sure it had a happy ending.
i had this one dream where i was certain the world was going to explode- everything was red and bombs or something kept on detonating
then this random guy comes out of no where with a king in his hand. The king had a really sharp crown, and the guy stabs me with the king
there is a huge chasm right next to me and I fall down into it- after a few hundred feet I wake up, still thinking that I'm falling
lol
Chess has appeared in quite a few of my dreams, but I cannot recall any dream in which I was actually playing chess. More like I was doing something else and thinking about a game I had going on, or trying to log on here but finding myself unable to do so for some reason. And then some of the players I have "met" here have appeared in my dreams, but these dreams have not always been chess related.
I had a dream about chess.com a long time ago after a long night in the forums. All sorts of discussions and arguments were raging. I will copy and past the original post - I have edited out a few things that were related to issues at that time, but the rest is interesting, or not.
This is what I remember:
Chess.com is housed in a huge gymnasium style room, with chess
boards all around the perimeter. You can not easily see who
is playing unless you walk toward the game, then the players
light up.
The center of the gym is very much like a playground or school
yard. Everyone is milling about and "chatting" to each other.
xxxxx was there, he was huddled (like a football quaterback) with
bunch of other members. He kept looking up out of the
huddle, put the huddle never broke.
xxxxxxx looks and acts a lot like Bruce Wayne.
xxxxxx is the most popular girl in the gym, cheater_1 is
disguised and keeps following her around. Cheater_1 is easy
to recognize because he is in black and white.
oh yeah, this dream was in color.
Erik and the staff are in a large tower, like the control room of an
aircraft carrier, or control tower of an airport. It has blacked out
tinted glass so you can never see what they are doing. It has an
Oz like presence, and seems to change positions during my dream.
There is an Ice Rink outside of the building (this has to be because of
Winter Classic game yesterday) and players keep going outside to
skate around and play hockey.
Someone in the distance is yelling that you can not take vacation time
to go outside and skate.
a few nights ago i had a dream involving a murderous rook in a neighborhood that was supposed to be mine, but wasn't. it wasn't a normal rook, it was shaped like a gear and had the face like those ancient tall grey statues. after he chased my friends around in the neighborhood the scene transformed into a chess board. i was on c1 or d1 and he was on c8 or d8 and tried to kill me by dropping down on me. luckily i got out of the way(i used to have tons of dreams when i was little where i would often die and wake up). after he missed me the police came arrested him and he got the death penalty. its weird becuase im really not a fan of capital punishment. after he died i felt relived and woke up soon after. there might be more that i forgot but thats everything i remember. Edit: i just remembered he got the death penalty because the police were racist and it was a black rook.
this was a real dream i dont think i could make this up. i posted it cause ithought others would find it interesting.