Thread: Getting Shot and Waking Up to Real Pain

Amazing how the mind can actually create pain.

I've had a dream where I was riding a bike very fast and ran into a curb and flew off landing on my face. It hurt in the dream and hurt slightly when I woke up, even after realizing it didn't happen.

Got shot in the hand just last night. Through the palm. It hurt in the dream, kind of a fierce numb burning and I could feel the blood being all hot, quite paralyzing, the sensation spread from my hand all the way up to my elbow about, but this pain faded swiftly as I woke up.

Originally Posted by anonymous

Amazing how the mind can actually create pain.[/b]

Just goes to show that the sensation of pain is just "in our heads" sometimes.

But I think sometimes our bodies are actually experiencing pain (for whatever reason, muscle cramp, etc) and we create a dream scenario in which that part of our body is injured in the dream.

So it can probably go both ways, we dream about pain so our body manufactures the sensation; OR our body is experiencing a painful response so our mind creates a dream around the pain. Interesting...

I had a dream where I was bitten on the neck by a snake in my driveway, a freakin big snake too, like a king cobra. And I woke up right after the bite and my neck was in pain all that morning and was even a little red there...

For some reason a always have a dream like once a month and i wake up crying. I NEVER CRY! Ive jumped a 6ft tall driveway on my dirtbike and crashed.(my front tire turnrd when i landed on a drain pipe.lol)And i didnt cry,
i even got back up to pick my bike up. So i guess i have extremely sad dreams.

One time I had a dream where I was fighting someone in my back yard. I woke up almost screaming from pain in my leg. I tried to move my leg, but I couldn't really, and I reached down and felt it and the ligaments were in strange positions. So, anyway, I hyperextended my leg... End of story. I was actually kicking and hitting the air while I was asleep.

Originally Posted by kelly1989x

One time I had a dream where I was fighting someone in my back yard. I woke up almost screaming from pain in my leg. I tried to move my leg, but I couldn't really, and I reached down and felt it and the ligaments were in strange positions. So, anyway, I hyperextended my leg... End of story. I was actually kicking and hitting the air while I was asleep.[/b]

Wow, that's unusual. Sleep paralysis is supposed to prevent us from acting out our dreams. So in your case, it wasn't imagined pain, it was real pain!

I was shot several times by a pistol in my chest in a dream, but I kept walking forward and killed the shooter when I reached him. I only felt a light pain from it, so it wasn't so bad.

I used to wake up as a child when I was about to get severly hurt in dreams, but now it doesn't happen anymore.

I had a dream where I had a shoot out in a gun store and got shot in the neck. In the dream it was weird to have the feeling of being shot it the neck, felt like I was trying to swallow metal(metal has a weird taste to it). I woke up after a little while and it took me a while to breathe and I don't have asthma.

This doesn't involve pain but I had another dream where Marlyn Manson was chasing me down in a Ford Bronco and right before he hit me I woke up with my face planted straight against the wall. Marlyn Manson freaks me out

Originally Posted by seaoharrwhy

felt like I was trying to swallow metal(metal has a weird taste to it).[/b]

wow, that's weird that you could actually taste it too! Do you think you could've had blood in your mouth from biting your lip or cheek or anything, since blood has a metallic taste? Anyway, yeah that would be a weird sensation to feel like you got shot in the neck!

two nights ago, I got nailed in the side of the head with a .50 cal sniper round. what is wierd is I felt the thing go in one side and out the other. I know you're not supposed to feel anything in your brain. what was odd was it wasn't really painful at all. Maybe I just didn't have time to register any pain? it was a spongy feeling, or if you imagine sticking your finger through jell-o and being able to feel the jell-o. that's kind of what it was like. I did see my headless self but then I kind of respawned and did the same thing to my friend who'd shot me.

Originally Posted by Burns

wow, that's weird that you could actually taste it too! Do you think you could've had blood in your mouth from biting your lip or cheek or anything, since blood has a metallic taste? Anyway, yeah that would be a weird sensation to feel like you got shot in the neck!
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Well, I dont know if any of you have tasted bare steel in RL but i could taste it in my dream, not when I woke up. And I dont recall any blood in my mouth or any signs of biting my lip or cheek.