Thread: sharp pain in dream..gone when i wake up

wow, that's interesting. I was dreaming one time, can't remember what the dream was about, but i do remember i had a lot of pain in my knee as if i had broken it or something, when i woke up a few hours later i still had the feeling and it turns out i had slammed against the wood that holds up my bed (my bed collapsed so the wood is right next to me), and it had sliced my knee in two places. I still have scars. Maybe you were hitting something against your lower back in your sleep.

nope there was absolutely nothing in my bed and nothing i could have moved into..

Hi italianxmna89,

It sounds as if you were possibly relating to the idea of getting mugged and what it would be like. Had you perhaps heard of someone you knew experiencing that, or heard news of a mugging on television, or even seen a mugging in a TV show? The sharp object sounds like a knife. We often work out fears of being on the receiving end of that kind of violence in our dreams, I think. I used to have a lot of those kinds of dreams when I was younger, but not so much anymore. I think over time, you realize the odds are against those kinds of things happening to you, and if you spend a lot of energy worrying about them beyond common sense precautions (you know, things like locking doors, not walking in dangerous places alone after dark, cautionary things) the odds are they won't happen to you.

Dream pain can be really convincing. I experience the most realistic pain when I am on the border of sleep and wakefulness. During a hypnagogic/hypnopompic hallucination or sleep paralysis, when I have some awareness of my real body.

The way you describe it, it seems like the scenario was just an excuse to provide the pain. It was not really a dream about being attacked. It sounds like it was a dream about pain, where the attack was just provided as an afterthought to explain where the pain was coming from.