Dreaming Question...

[kkernel]

i would like to ask the experts. I have certain dreams that when i wake up certain parts of my body. Let me tell you an example... I show once that someone shot me in the chest, and i wake up and my check was hurting like i was shoot... COuld you explain ...

[evangel]

Hmmm. well I think that you meant that you feel pain even after waking up... I think more often the pain is what causes or at least influences the dream rather than the other way around. (For example if you get a headache while you're sleeping, your mind will interpret it as getting hit or shot in the head.) soooo, you may want to have yer chest checked out by a doctor, especially if it is deep pain... I often have pain in my dreams, but very rarely has it carried over after waking up. When the pain has carried over, I simply do not attribute much meaning to it, other than it may have been some type of false nerve relay, or a cramp/muscle twitch, etc.) Probably doesn't help you much, but that's my contribution.

[Seeker]

Evangl is right, but first WELCOME!!!!!! I once pressed my hand through a solid steel door one time. Interesting experience. When I woke up, my hand was asleep!

[A Lost Soul]

I've dreamed of fighting someone or something and when I woke up, I was bruised where they hit me. And once or twice I've woken up with a bloody nose. That always sucked. Scientifically, I don't understand the specifics for why this happens. Spiritually, it could be that your physical body reacts to the residual effects of the pain. Sort of like phantom pain, for lack of a better explanation.

[Blake]

I was dreaming that I was lying in bed awake and this ghost opend my bedroom door..the ghost looked like the type when you put a white bedsheet over a person..I was startled..then it made it,s way towards me..it seemed to float..it came right up to me ..I felt paralised with fear..it then reached out and started chocking me..I quickly awakened only to find my own two hands wrapped quite firmly around my neck..I was actually chocking myself...go figure??

[YULAW]

Blake whats going to really amaze you is this ghost figure that you've seen is a real spirit. When you described it as a bed sheet over a person that made me jump up from my seat. I used to see this same ghostly type figure as a child He would never do any harm just float back and forth in my grandmothers house. But I can remember exactly how it looks and it looks like someone put a bedsheet over a person. And that choking yourself part yeah its called Responsive Reflex. Its an act that your body initiates in occurdance with whats effecting you in your dream. For instance I had a dream where I was being tickled near my rib cage only to wake up that my own hand was there tickling myself.

[Blake]

This particular dream was when I was a child...I hated it ..I couldn,t move an inch from the moment I saw the ghost ..What makes you say it,s a real spirit?

[Blake]

Yeah...about responsive reflex..as a child I was dreaming that I was walkin in the woods and gettin swarmed by bugs in my face...I swatted at them and woke up to see my mean old brother tickling my face with a shoe lace..I looked up...he was just smiling at me...ha ha ha..I got him back though.

[YULAW]

It just seems like its that same spirit that I've seen when I was a just a kid. I don't believe you can see them in waking life but what are the chances of you and I having the same vision of someone with a bedsheet over his head?

[kkernel]

to say to evangel, i am perfectly healthy ... i dont know what to say, i would say that i my dream is so vivid and alive that my brain thinks that it is real and continues the pain after the dream...

[blushing_angels]

hm...i don't think that it was a spirit..like, can't it be a coincidence that both of you just happened to see a similar "ghost"? it sounds a lot like this: Old Hag Phenomenon~ Throughout human history across all cultures there are reports of attackers that come at night, to crush or suck the life out of the paralyzed victim. Vampires, demons, witches, devils all are different names for the old hag, many cultures report waking in the night, being unable to move and then sensing an evil presence in the room or footsteps outside the door. The figure will walk to the terrified person and usually straddle their chest crushing the breath and life out of them or biting or sucking the life out of them. The experience is normally short lived but can last upto 8-10 minutes, it has been blamed for many other reports such as alien abduction and experimentation. What's happening is a similar thing to lucid dreaming, the dreamer may "think" they have woken when actually they are having a lucid dream about waking in their room and being paralyzed. Alternatively they could have really woken in there bed but the paralysis from sleep is still present--their eyes can open but the mind overlays hallucinatory hypnagogic images of the terror that the mind perceives as it cannot work out what has happened to the body and deep seated fears fill the mind.

[YULAW]

Yep Sleep Paralysis I know of this all too well. There is not a single Person on this planet who's body doesn't shut down during sleep the only difference is some people like me.. Minds are pre-actived either before sleep or after waking from a dream, and prematurely awakens, while the body is still in its shut down period. Yeah I've heard of the stories also but its just what it is..Stories. People tend to over exagerrate things they don't understand. If some people would just use it for what it is they would find much more happiness in dealing with it.

[blushing_angels]

well, i'm not really stressing the sleep paralysis, im just saying it couldve been a hallucination brought on by your mind, which is still in a bit of a sleepy phase.

[YULAW]

I see what you're saying but sleep paralysis is just that... during this phase you're sure to see all sorts of hallucinagen imagery. Damn that sounds good! I sound like some kind Psyhcologist..