recently, a lot of my dreams have been real foggy, so.. as you do - i've been trying to focus on certain things when I'm dreaming to increased the vividness.. you know, to check that I'm dreaming etc. last time I tried looking at my hands in a dream; before I could get a good look at them, I got a tremendous shooting pain throughout both sides of my body.. It was as if my sides cramped or something. this pain kept happening every time I checked my hands throughout the night, and I couldn't get rid of it. In the end I stopped.... it hurt badly.