Originally Posted by
EVIL JOE
It might just come down to expectation. If you expect there to be pain, there will be pain. If I ever get rolling on lucid dreaming, one thing I want to try is to feel immense pain, something so horribly painfull that no one's ever felt it before. It will suck balls if it works (until I wake up of course). Not that I want to feel the pain, but it should be interesting knowing that although I'm being agonizingly tortured, I'm perfectly fine.
In Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, Laberge states that while lucid dreaming, our minds act the same way they would if we were awake. Like if you are jumping or running in a dream, your mind does exactly what it would do if you were actually running or jumping in real life. I wonder what affect excrutiating pain would have on your mind if you were to lucid dream it. Hopefully it isn't horrible enough to traumatize someone.