Pain in dreams

[Sl137]

For some reason while in a lucid dream I decided to test if I can feel pain, hearing that you can't. I headbutt a wall and to my surprise it hurt...pretty badly. Obviously it didn't leave any injuries and hurt a lot less then it would have in real life but it still hurt regardless. Do you guys feel pain in dreams?

[JoannaB]

Of course, you can feel pain in dreams. If you can imagine it and especially if you expect it, you can feel it.

[snoop]

It depends on the person really. I've tried to feel pain in dreams before and I just can't. Trust me, I've had a lot happen to me that should've been very painful. For instance, one time in a dream my penis got cut off (later I reattached it somehow but that's another story), I've been punched, kicked, fallen, been stabbed, all kinds of stuff. None of it ever hurts.

[Empedocles]

I experienced pain in dreams. It is not as intense as real life pain, but I have felt it nonetheless.

[Scionox]

Sometimes i do feel pain, sometimes i don't, really varies from dream to dream. But yes, it is possible, especially if you expect it.

[TheBooneMan]

One time I had a robotic girlfriend when I was visiting Jupiter, she went to kiss me and while she was kissing me, she stuck her tongue down my throat and it felt so horrible.. (Honestly though, she was really hot )

[TiredPhil]

I had agonising pains in my stomach from some early confrontations within dreams. I can only imagine it was like being stabbed in the gut. This has not happened in real life to me though

[dreamstudent123]

This night this psychopath was chasing me and he cutted me in my arms and made a really deep one in my left hand. I had excruciating pain, no joke... When I woke up I noticed that I had been sleeping with my hand beneath my cushion. My hand was almost numb and I had this tingling feeling. But the pain in my dreams was so much worser than it was when I woke up. Also when I was younger I had this dream that someone was tickeling me and just wouldn't stop... I never felt so much pain in my entire life!

[realdealmagic]

It's the same as everything else in the way that everybody is different. If you expect yourself to feel pain, then you will. Sometimes realistic dreams will be as painful as real life, because everything else seems so real. You could take an "anti-pain pill" and that'll stop your pain

[TiredPhil]

If you expect yourself to feel pain, then you will. Sometimes realistic dreams will be as painful as real life, because everything else seems so real. You could take an "anti-pain pill" and that'll stop your pain We can be the masters of our mind, and body. Just takes quite a bit of pactice, and dedication. ( A lot actually ) This is a very good place to start.

[LucasPotter]

Usually, I don't, but it has happened before. Interestingly enough, the first time I remember feeling pain in a dream was when I got burnt in it... and, back then, I had no idea what it felt like in real life.

[BlairBros]

In one of my dreams I got stabbed in the side of the chest and had the knife dragged down my torso... pretty gruesome. It hurt quite a lot but the pain faded away when I woke up, although I could still kind of feel it for about 5 minutes afterwards.

[TranquilityTrip]

I have felt what I could only describe as "pain" twice in a dream. The first time a pincher bug bit me on the finger and I could really feel my finger being stung. My second experience with dream pain came when my brother had shoved a sword through my back and I could feel the cold steel grind against my bones. Nothing hurt except for my bones. It was so uncomfortable that I immediately fled the scene so as to not be stabbed again and repeat the experience. (Unfortunately I wasn't lucid and thus couldn't return the favor, so fleeing was my best option). I am willing to concede, however, that what I felt may not have been actually pain as much as it might have been intense pressure. With that said, even if it wasn't pain it was still a very unpleasant sensation that I do not wish to experience again unless under a certain set of circumstances.

[Earthykiller127]

I experience pain in a lucid dream cause in a dream i almost never go in situation that hurts me, in lucid, sometimes screwing around make me fall a hundred feets cause of flying not correctly and break my legs (not dying!) which does lots of pain (sometimes minor) if you think of yourself invincible you would.

[The Cusp]

Everything requires your attention to exist. That's all you need to know about dream pain. It's only there if you focus on it. Seek and ye shall find. Or even better, ignore, and ye shall be pain free.

[TheSilverWolf]

I sure as heck felt pain when my mother's hamster Rolo latched onto my finger with her ridiculously giant jaws and started gnawing on me! I wasn't lucid though ~SilverWolf~

[SilentDream]

In some of my dreams I experience pain, and in others I don't. One time I got stabbed multiple times and it hurt really bad, but then another time I got shot in a dream and didn't feel a thing.

[Pickman]

The only time that I have not felt pain in a dream is when I have one of those dreams where I am observing my body from the outside in a detached way while it is being dismembered or something. When I am in my body, I tend to feel it.

[TheSilverWolf]

A little off topic, but I have to say, watching your body be dismembered sounds like a highly disturbing dream ~SilverWolf~

[Micael]

Just recently a cat scratched my hand from top to bottom in a dream, it hurt pretty badly, I still kept some distance from the pain even though it was a non lucid.

[Pickman]

A little off topic, but I have to say, watching your body be dismembered sounds like a highly disturbing dream ~SilverWolf~ It was my first attempt at a cheese-induced lucid dream, from reading this forum. It was disturbing to see my own severed torso strapped to a table while someone with surgical instruments cuts it just to watch it writhe and twitch - but it wasn't painful because I was so detached from the experience. I thought that there might be something to that - being associated with your body or being dissociated determines whether or not you feel pain. But judging from some of the replies above, it might not be that simple.

[TheSilverWolf]

I haven't heard of the Cheese induced lucid dreams yet. As much as I like to eat cheese, I might have to do a bit of reading on that ~SilverWolf~

[Pickman]

I haven't heard of the Cheese induced lucid dreams yet. As much as I like to eat cheese, I might have to do a bit of reading on that Try searching for CILD on the forum (at least that's what I think the acronym was). EDIT: Sorry, not CILD, that is something else. Just try "cheese" instead.

[Vortaix]

Well, dreams come from the brain, And guess what, so does pain, Dreams/real life, it's all the same, you can never run away. --- No, seriously. I bet you can induce bigger pain in dreams than in real life. In real life it would probably kill you. But in dreams? There's nothing limiting you from causing huge amounts of pain to yourself. So I'm 1000% sure the pain in dreams can be bigger than the pain in real life. I mean, why not? I just noticed that the pain is the only thing that's REAL in a dream :d He he, so nice.

[TranquilityTrip]

Well, dreams come from the brain, And guess what, so does pain, Dreams/real life, it's all the same, you can never run away. --- No, seriously. I bet you can induce bigger pain in dreams than in real life. In real life it would probably kill you. But in dreams? There's nothing limiting you from causing huge amounts of pain to yourself. So I'm 1000% sure the pain in dreams can be bigger than the pain in real life. I mean, why not? I just noticed that the pain is the only thing that's REAL in a dream :d He he, so nice. That's a very interesting, and very terrifying idea you have there Vortaix. Which means someone needs to test it. One... two... three. Not it.