Thread: Pain in Lucid Dreams?

Here's an interesting article about feeling/not feeling pain.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...thinks-so.html

Originally Posted by The Cusp

Here's an interesting article about feeling/not feeling pain.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...thinks-so.html

Thanks for the article! That was very interesting! I've always been interested in hypnosis, but like the commenter at the bottom said, "they" always twist it into something mystical and fantastic and evil, rather than an incredible tool that should be utilized

Interesting, how probably the average person wouldn't believe in it but lucid dreamers may be those who embrace it the strongest.

im sure people have said this i just didnt feel like reading everything in the thread.

It is possible to die in a lucid dream, many people have had them, however it is not possible to actually die from doing so in a dream.

I have definitely been shot in my dreams and it feels like a pinch. Im sure if you were lucid and wanted it to be more painful you could make it happen, but it would leave with the dream.

I'm sure maybe alot of people have got it wrong. I personally (emphasis on personally) don't believe that your dreams can affect the physical, however what happens whilst you are sleeping can affect your dreams as most of us know.

Surely this is just what's happening when you wake up and your wounds have supposedly formed from the dream, instead something could have happened during the night that translated into the dream.

I just had a dream where I had an abnormally long group of several hairs, at least 5 inches longer than the rest of my hair. But when I tried to pull it out, it really hurt. It was a very real pain, like trying to pull out a fist full of hair in waking life. As for lucid dreams, I'm not sure if you'd experience pain or not. But for regular dreams, I definitely experience pain.

Hey all,
I just recently found this website and this thread as I was googleing the very question "pain in lucid dreams?". I have been able to have lucid dreams for around a year now, but more recently (last 4 dreams) I have experienced greater sensations including pain and I was curious if anyone else felt this as well. To be specific the most realistic pain I'm referring to was someone stabbing me in the leg with a syringe several times. lol, imagine my surprise in the dream when I actually felt pain (and it did feel like a real syringe), I then tried to end the dream by "escaping", instead of just waking up. I have felt several other sensation before, i.e, scraping, falling, touch, even flying, however those all tended to be due to my 'choices/actions' in a dream, i.e. not necessarily imposed on me (with a few exceptions). In conclusion, I believe that what you expect of a dream is what you're gonna get. If you enter a dream state where everything is realistic then it will feel like it, however if you enter a more fictionalized dream state (where you believe yo can fly for example) the realism may be reduced and you can avoid feeling pain.

Havn't LD'd yet, but I definately know pain in a dream. Always something biting me, ugh, I hate those. I know real pain fromt he outside is felt in dreams but I really doubt dream pain translates to your actual body.

One particularly annoying sensation is having to pee in dreams. Of course, you dream you went and then because you actually didn't, you keep getting the same sensation over and over again. I've peed a dozen times in my dream and then finally woke up with a full bladder that was killing me.

Originally Posted by i make it rain

I don't think that you can possible die in a lucid and make your real self die. With pain, your brain has a pain mechanism that maybe can be accidentally stimulated in real life while dreaming. Your brain doesn't have a die mechanism. There is no "damn, I had a good run" switch in the brain that can be triggered. It just runs until it doesn't get enough oxygen or something.

This makes total sense to me. You cant just think yourself dead.

I've experienced massive traumas in my dreams and they always just feel like a light pressure.

After that I sit in wonder a second wondering what's going on...

and then the scence changes and the trauma and situation are dropped.

Hm, unless the pain were so intense that you get some kind of spasm, I don't think you would die because of a LD, but who knows. For the pain, now its common for me to feel pain, even if I try not to <.<

The only pain I have in dreams:

NIGHTMARES. Usually someone/something is chasing after me in complete blackness, suddenly he/she/it gets me on the edge of a cliff, I jump off, hit the ground feel a sharp pain in my back, and finally wake up and realize I'm on the floor. XD

I never have pain only warmth for dull pain and cold for sharp pain.

I think its because the hot nerve and the dull pain nurv are next to each other and the cold and sharp respectavly.

i dont know if anybody else has said it but your pain can sometimes carry over into waking life...I was trying to fly once and i was jumping off a high pillar...i woke up and i was sore like i had hit the ground from a high place

I doubt you could die, no matter how vivid or how much you epected it. Think about it, everythign in a dream is something we can relate to or can think about/mostly comprehend in our RLs. We can't relate to death. Obviously we haven't ever died. (Eh, your heart may have stopped beating but leaving this body and dying? Obviously not.)

So we can't relate to death. It isn't totally concievable to our mind even since either an afterlife or non-existance is completley foreign, even abstract. I don't think it could happen.

Maybe you could excite yourself so much in a dream that you had a heart attack. Would that count?

I have felt pain before mostly in non lucids. Sometimes this pain can be greater than real pain. I remember having a wasp attack my back in a non lucid dream it was very pain ful and I couldent get away. A few weeks ago I had a dream about a swarm of bees. Then in real life I was walking to work and I got stung by a wasp. The real pain from the wasp was whole lot less than in the dreams. Makes me wish that I got stung before the dreams.

Remember though pain and pleasure are just two sides of the same coin. If you can feel pain in dreams you can sure feel pleasure to.Discovering this has lead to me some very nice dreams that make the possibility of pain 100 times worth it.

The only pain I have had when dream is the feeling that my balls are being crushed. It is an excruciating pain. When I get this pain I know I'm dreaming since it is a recurring thing, but I cannot wake up until the pain is gone. Does anyone else get this (directed at the guys obviously) or know what might be causing it?

Originally Posted by John11

The only pain I have had when dream is the feeling that my balls are being crushed. It is an excruciating pain. When I get this pain I know I'm dreaming since it is a recurring thing, but I cannot wake up until the pain is gone. Does anyone else get this (directed at the guys obviously) or know what might be causing it?

I'm a girl, and I've never experienced any sort of equivalent. When this happens, try to distract yourself from the pain by focusing on other things in the dream and ignoring the pain. Especially try to flood your mind with other sensations of touch, try to touch things around you and get a feel for their temperature and texture, and see if you can get the pain to go away Have you tried anything like that before?

Originally Posted by Shift

I'm a girl, and I've never experienced any sort of equivalent. When this happens, try to distract yourself from the pain by focusing on other things in the dream and ignoring the pain. Especially try to flood your mind with other sensations of touch, try to touch things around you and get a feel for their temperature and texture, and see if you can get the pain to go away Have you tried anything like that before?

I haven't had it happen recently and it doesn't happen very often thankfully, but next time it does I'll give that a try if I think of it. Normally I try to stop whatever or whoever in my dream is crushing them, but that doesn't work.

Originally Posted by John11

I haven't had it happen recently and it doesn't happen very often thankfully, but next time it does I'll give that a try if I think of it. Normally I try to stop whatever or whoever in my dream is crushing them, but that doesn't work.

Yea, unless your dream control is top notch, that could be a risky approach, because you are giving more and more attention to the thing that you want to leave your dream. Things don't 'exist' as long as you don't give them attention. So by paying attention to fight them, you're actually making it 'worse' I'm glad it hasn't happened in a while though, hopefully it won't anymore!!

I dont seem to feel at all. EG if i touch an object then I cant feel it. This would be a normal dream though, ive never tried in a lucid.

Originally Posted by capoopy

I dont seem to feel at all. EG if i touch an object then I cant feel it. This would be a normal dream though, ive never tried in a lucid.

The strange thing aobut dreams is that emotions and senses can be dulled and intesified. Luicid or not. How these mechanics work are up to question however. Perhaps its what we give attention to and what we ignore in a dream.

Once in a non-lucid dream, I shot myself (I had a good reason to do so) in the neck- there was no pain, I managed to get out a few words, felt the blood on my hands, and everything faded over white. I then "respawned" inside a grand house with my friend, who agreed that it had been the coolest thing she had ever seen. It was though I had been dreaming and woken up, but the dream had still happened. But I disgress, it wasn't painful at all (even though it should have been).

Originally Posted by Dimetrodon

I then "respawned"

That happens to me too most of the time when I die. Either that, or I wake up.

In a non-LD last night I was in a fight for my life and the pain was more a dull, gnawing discomfort. But the night before (also in a non-lucid) I passed out from heat stroke in a dream and boy could I feel that heat!