Thread: Pain

It might have been real pain coming through into your dream in the first place. Other than that I don't know what it could be. Have you been having any chest pains? Heart burn? Indigestion? Asthma attacks? Anything that would cause pain in your chest in the waking world?

Sleep Paralysis is another possibility but I don't know anything about that really. You should be able to find more on here somewhere.

It could be something that happened in real life, and it just got translated into your dream as Jimmie said.

Also, it is possible to experience pain in lucid dreams as far as I've seen by searching (I haven't had a lucid yet), and sometimes it carries over a bit.

I'm not sure which it would be, though.

You can experience pain in a LD, its quite normal. Try having a tooth knocked out and tasting the blood, it felt so real I woke up and ran to the mirror.

After you wake up, the pain goes away so its not that bad.

I've experienced pain in dreams quite a bit - usually by being shot either in the back or thigh. It hurts, I realize I'm dreaming, and sometimes I'll wake myself up, still experiencing the pain in the exact location I was shot - it lingers for about 5 seconds, then fades.

I've also thought maybe I had a cramp and incorporated it into my dream, but sometimes I think my brain thinks it's supposed to feel pain from a gunshot wound, so it creates it.

I've also experienced pain in dreams - the most memorable was in a fairly epic dream, and in one part I was being tortured with this funny bladed device that was constantly whipped into the small of my back as I was being forcibly marched around a city. It was not only painful in the dream, but when I woke up my back and legs were aching. This has happened in numerous other dreams as well. Pain aside, it's very very cool, and I'd be fascinated to learn how exactly the brain achieves it... so don't worry remus, it's normal. I hope.

Originally Posted by Metroid48

It could be something that happened in real life, and it just got translated into your dream as Jimmie said.

Also, it is possible to experience pain in lucid dreams as far as I've seen by searching (I haven't had a lucid yet), and sometimes it carries over a bit.

I'm not sure which it would be, though.
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Isn't it cool how your brain can predict something like that?

I mean how did your brain know you were about to have pains in a certain area of your body and setup your dream so the dream reacts to the oncoming future pain.

Like being stabbed. You see it coming... it's coming... and bam it hits you and feel the pain. For those moments you saw it coming, the brain was setting something up. This is making me think to much.

i know this is off topic but blade5x what is Hags in your signeture?

It's a reference to a strange sleep paralysis phenomenon.

In neurobiology

The expression Old Hag Attack refers to a hypnagogic state in which paralysis is present and, quite often, it is accompanied by terrifying hallucinations. When excessively recurrent, some consider them to be a disorder while many populations treat them as part of their culture as discussed in the sections dealing with the folkloric and mythologic interpretations.

For neurobiological correlates of these attacks see, among others, the references given below. [/b]

That's from wikipedia. Here's another link if you want to read more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

Originally Posted by blade5x

Isn't it cool how your brain can predict something like that?

I mean how did your brain know you were about to have pains in a certain area of your body and setup your dream so the dream reacts to the oncoming future pain.

Like being stabbed. You see it coming... it's coming... and bam it hits you and feel the pain. For those moments you saw it coming, the brain was setting something up. This is making me think to much.
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unrelated...what are all the types of LD's in your sig??

Originally Posted by RavenC1357

unrelated...what are all the types of LD's in your sig??
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Just kidding I found the tutorial!

ok then, 0 to all!

You should trying burning to death in your dream, now that was crazy, i had a life bar to from like a video game o man i couldnt wait for that bar to finish, lol. I dont remember if it hurt afterward though.

This pain you describe was best noticed by the Chinese dream interpreters.

They referred to this feeling as though as sumo wrestler were sitting on your chest. This is because, not only can you not feel your chest, but you do not feel that you can really move it either. From a scientific point of view, this is a result of sleep paralysis. However, too many people continue to believe this is the soul caught in your body after waking and that it does not want to return to the astral realm (people like Sylvia Browne are strong believers in this besides the overhwelming amount of empirical evidence).

Although we cannot propound direct empirical evidence to what causes sleep paralysis (because we cannot yet induce it at will), it is firmly believed that is residual disactivation of monoamine neurotransmitter production from the transitory states of sleep. In other words, something most likely woke you up in a very subtle way during the end of REM sleep sleep.

However, I should note that, in my experience, the pain does not seem to be real and simply a matter of memory facilitating the pain. As memories conjure our perceptions in our dreaming state, serotonin levels are uninhibited and thus these levels can decevie the mind into "living" out something "unreal" (I use quotations and skepticism because, at this time of life, I am unsure as to what reality really is).

I would not worry.. unless you had the dream because an anvil or something fell on your chest and you woke up after it rolled off.. Then you are probably dying..

I hope I have been enlightening.
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