Thread: Getting Shot and Waking Up to Real Pain

yea, it's happened to me a couple of times

i was a few seconds away from regaining full consciousness when suddenly, BAM! I fist slams into my face. My physical head actually tilted back and I felt as if i was really punched, but when I awoke fully, it just felt numb

I'm guessing that would be the body actually creating the pain in order to simulate it, since you're probably very close to conscienceness at the time.

when i was young i had experiences like this were id dream id fell off a mountain and wake up to find id actually fallen out of bed. Also times when ive had a dc in my dream stab out my eyes and them really hurt as i awoke. and even stranger (i'm sure other plp have had this), ive awoken and im crying and im like wdf! funnier still is times when ive awoken because ive fallen asleep on my arms and stopped the blood circulation in them and i completly cannot feel them what so ever, very freaky but funny.

im sure everyone else has experienced them and i also agree with what colin said although i dont have these no more.

Hmm... that kinda worries me, some of my favourite dream pasttimes are punching windows and other random fun *semi self mutilation*. It usually hurts barely, not to the point whre i would care but only to the point where i know i did something, when i get hurt in a dream. Never real life.

Yeah, I had the same thing happen to me, but in the dream I think the dream was fading, but me, using dream logic just thought I was somehow going unconscious as I had been fighting some odd goblin like things.. Then a goblin thing just stabbed me in the back with something sharp. o_o I woke up to that area hurting in sharp pain, and it took a few minutes to fade.

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lol....It may be weird but I've never been injured in my dreams before.

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Originally posted by Kotaiferu
yea, it's happened to me a couple of times

i was a few seconds away from regaining full consciousness when suddenly, BAM! I fist slams into my face. My physical head actually tilted back and I felt as if i was really punched, but when I awoke fully, it just felt numb

This happened to me once! I was jumping or something and then I woke up and jumped up. It was crazy.

Yes that can happen frequently in a dream but it may be the enviroment that had to do with it.. in other words you may have been hurt while dreaming and it supposably had effect on you , for instance some noises in the enviroment can affect dreaming or other senses.


just my theory

"Your Mind Makes it Real..." - Morpheus

Someone else told me their experience with this. (actually, an old poster here, Serinanth)

That he got shot, labelled it as "hurting like hell", haha. Yeah, I get you. I've had really extreme feelings from dreams linger after awakening, why not the physical senstation? Emotions and physical sensations are very closely related.

When you realized it was a dream, it was an "epiphany" to your brain that immediately told you it made no sense to feel pain anymore. In our world, that's kind of how it works, except we don't have convincing enough proof that it's not real. Every sensation we feel has its purpose, so to speak.

I have dreamt once that I got my balls (yes the genitals) bitten of by rats. And when I woke up, maaan did it hurt! ;D I dream that my balls gets hurt a lot, and it always hurts when I wake up.

"Your mind make it real" - AirRick101 citing Morpheus. Your real name wouldn't be erik would it? quite a clever paly on words ;D

i would think the pain comes first and then you see it in the dream like if a bug bites you in the leg and you dream that someone shot you there with a BB gun and you woke up and theres was a bug bite there its a bit red and it hurts. like you ever had that when someone is waking you up and you her a part of it in your dream and then you wake up. sp i would think what happens in RL effects your dreams!

i got shot in the leg once when i was with a platoon walking through a forest. i woke up in agony with real bad cramp in my calf muscle

One time I dreamed that someone punched me in the mouth and knocked a few of my teeth out, but it did not exactly hurt.

ya i hate when that happens i think you mean with shots with gone but one dream some evil guy gave me a shot(medicene?) in the arm ugh i can stil rember what it felt like lol...

Its all in the mind. Its all about seperating reality from fiction. / If you're mind can not grasp the fact that the dreamworld is just your imagination then the feelings are going to be real.

I got stabbed in the heart in a dream last night. I woke up and that section of my chest was in pain.

I once had my tooth knocked out, I could taste the blood in the dream. It felt so real as well, I actually woke straight up and went to the mirror!

I have dreamt once that I got my balls (yes the genitals) bitten of by rats. And when I woke up, maaan did it hurt! ;D I dream that my balls gets hurt a lot, and it always hurts when I wake up.

Lol this happens, even if you see a guy in the waking world get hit in the balls, you kind of feel it too.

I think that these pains can happen from things happening to you in the waking world or they can jsut be created by your mind.

Its the same as sounds, you could have a song playing while asleep and this can come into your dream, or you can make up your own songs/noises in your dream.
Just an interesting fact or two. A while ago, this happened quite a few times actually, I was almost awake, but still dreaming, probably you could say more conscious than usual. And I had a song playing and the people in my dream were saying the things that the song was saying, but only so it actually made sense. Like my brain would pick out certain words from the song so that the conversation in my dream would make sense. Other times various people would just say parts of the song but it would be in 'thier voice' not the actual singers IRL.

Also sounds can be delayed, like the soundwaves of someone saying 'hello' could reach your ears, but your brain would only bring this into your dream when it fit (could be 40 minutes later), or maybe its some other reason it does it, not sure.

And yes I have experienced pain after waking. One time I dreamt that I got acid poured on me and I woke up in pain and realised that I was either banging my head on the side rail of my bed or just had it resting against it really hard. Which was interpreted into my dream.

No, not really. I might have some mental anguish and tear up a bit or something. Other than that, nope.

Also remember that some people may hit themselves when they are dreaming or hit their head on something, etc. Then it incorporates into a dream, and when you wake up you still feel the pain. Though that's just a theory and I'm sure a lot of the stories here are from dream-induced pain.

yeah, it happened to me a few weeks ago...i dreamed i was going after some russian assassins and one of them shot me in the head...i woke up with a headache!

same thing happened last night, i wasn't injured but i dreamed of a violent thunderstorm and i've had a headache for most of the day.

Yeah, that's happened to me now and again, it's really odd but it does make sense if you believe that 'pain is just a state of mind.' Regardless of whether that's true or not, it's still a crappy way to wake up in the morning and start your day.

Hasn't happened to me, but I do remember that I had a dream that my dog died and I woke up crying and sweating like crazy xP