Thread: i felt PAIN in my dream

I think you feel pain in your dreams because you do have real pain in your body. Your body feels pain when your asleep and the feeling comes into your dream. Only your dreaming mind will make it another story, for example; you dream that you got hit in the head by a ball and it hurts, you wake up and your head still hurts. That's probably because you already had a headache and your dreaming mind registered it and formed a dream around it.

Originally Posted by Max ツ

I dunno, I have felt a considerable amount of pain both in real life and in dreams and have sometimes gotten the same wounds. Even in a high quality LD, it just doesn't seem . . . real.

There's something about it I can't describe. Pain while awake is different, it's real, and it's much more intense.

Maybe our brains can't replicate pain that well. But then why shouldn't it, it can replicate almost every other feeling. =.=

I felt even more intense pain in dreams that i never experienced in real... and it definitely didn't feel like getting shocked lightly

Originally Posted by Chicken

I think you feel pain in your dreams because you do have real pain in your body. Your body feels pain when your asleep and the feeling comes into your dream. Only your dreaming mind will make it another story, for example; you dream that you got hit in the head by a ball and it hurts, you wake up and your head still hurts. That's probably because you already had a headache and your dreaming mind registered it and formed a dream around it.

I never really thought of it that way, I suppose that could be true - but I wouldn't say necessarily for all cases. Pain is in the mind, so it's only natural that the mind is able to recreate pain in a dream state, in the same way that you can feel anything in a dream.

Originally Posted by littlezoe

I felt even more intense pain in dreams that i never experienced in real... and it definitely didn't feel like getting shocked lightly

*cough*

who said anything about shocked LIGHTLY?

Originally Posted by Chicken

I think you feel pain in your dreams because you do have real pain in your body. Your body feels pain when your asleep and the feeling comes into your dream. Only your dreaming mind will make it another story, for example; you dream that you got hit in the head by a ball and it hurts, you wake up and your head still hurts. That's probably because you already had a headache and your dreaming mind registered it and formed a dream around it.

Like mosh said, this applies to some cases but not to all.

Once I was biting my arm while sleeping (well not BITING, my mouth was open and my teeth were digging a bit into my flesh due to the weight of my head) and it registered as knives poking me in my dream.

Was weird.

Originally Posted by Max ツ

*cough*

who said anything about shocked LIGHTLY?

To me it seemed like you described that feeling as light

Originally Posted by littlezoe

To me it seemed like you described that feeling as light

lol, it's not light at all. I got shocked once ( O.o ) but in my dreams it's like every muscle starts twitching and contracting...

Not pleasant, but I'm used to it. (dat violent DG .___.)

Originally Posted by Max ツ

Not pleasant, but I'm used to it. (dat violent DG .___.)

Lol vampires are weird people. (no offense ) You need to start posting in your DV dream journal again. I used to love reading your dreams!

Originally Posted by MadMonkey

Lol vampires are weird people. (no offense ) You need to start posting in your DV dream journal again. I used to love reading your dreams!

Yes, yes they are. .__.

Well my dreams are pretty monotonous these days, I'm almost always spending time with the DC equivalent of my ex-girlfriend as I can't get over her (long story) and I don't have the heart to try any stuff in my dreams.

Plus there's nothing I haven't done in an LD so I don't have any inspiration.

Maybe I could take requests from you guys. haha

Originally Posted by Max ツ

Even in a high quality LD, it just doesn't seem . . . real.

Oh, were you referring to pain in lucid dreams? I was talking about ordinary dreams. I've never felt pain in a lucid dream. I've felt some mild discomfort. Yeah, sort of like that jolt you mentioned.

I only feel pain when i don't know im dreaming. and yes pain is real..it is on the mind.

Okay, first of all many people say thing like feeling pain, electronics working, being able to read, being able to adjust light, etc is impossible in dreams. This is NOT true, almost ANYTHING is possible in dreams. Those things are just uncommon. A lot of people, however, actually do feel pain in dreams. In about 20% of my dreams I can feel pain. Don't worry about it. It sucks when you can, but it isn't anything abnormal.

Well first you have to ask yourself what is pain?

Pain is damage-detecting sensory neurons flashing a message to the brain that damage or injury has occurred. It is the brain's electrical warning signal, like a car alarm.

Since dreaming is all happening in the brain and recreating largely from past experiences and memory, it's not unlikely that you could in fact experience the sensation of pain in a dream. Much the same way that anyone who has rubbed their hands together in a dream report feeling warmth.