Thread: Pain In Dreams?

I bet pretty much everybody has felt pain in dreams, but just doesn't remember it. as for me i have felt pain in dreams before. i remember that i broke my arm in a dream before and it was really painful (but a little dream vicodin cleared that up)

Pain in dreams is common. It's an incredible aspect of dreaming, especially when you dream of, say, getting your leg torn off, and your leg hurts for a few moments after waking up.

Originally Posted by AnnaCG07

I've always heard it was impossible, that you would not feel pain in dreams.
Yet, I have...
One person said that it is possible, and I was wondering what y'alls thoughts on it were.
One dream that I had pain in was quite vivid-
I was running down a dirt road, lined with trees, from a German Shepard (long, long story). I turned back and realized that he was already on top of me. With his fangs, he grabbed the back of my hand. I got my hand back, and it hurt. I was sure that it was bleeding, but when I looked at it, I realized that the skin had only been twisted, not broken.
But it still hurt.
So, what are y'alls thoughts on pain in dreams?

Oh yeah. Once in a dream I got squeezed to much by some little kid in my school. I woke up and I had some random pain in my stomach.

I have a recurring thing that happens in my dreams, my teeth fall out! It hurts like hell and I never know I am dreaming until 3-4 of my teeth fall out, convincing me it can't be real. It's quite scary and the pain feels very real.

For me it does happen, but it's different from when I'm awake. It's generally less sharp in dreams. And it's also relatively rare. I practically never itch or feel sudden small twinges of discomfort in dreams. A specific traumatic event (in recent dreams, being bitten by a huge-mouthed fish in a nonlucid or punched in the nose in a lucid) has to trigger the pain, otherwise my dream mind doesn't "know" to feel it.

Pain in dreams is really just the manifestation of your memories of previously experienced dreams. Most likely, thse are pains that have caused a significant vivid memory in your real episodic memory. Thus, they are important to you and you may even have an aversion to this type of pain.

You are not truly 'feeling' the pain so much as you are projecting it as factual as though you imagine a painful event during your waking life. Whereas, in dreaming life, you actually project this pain as you imagine it and it becomes factual.

If you were asleep and someone hit you with a brick, your resonant reticular activation system would immediately awaken your central nervous system.

What do you think...?
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I too experience pain, but luckily I rarely get hurt in dreams.

I experience pain in my dreams now and then, but as previously described, it feels duller and hurts less, in a way. However, last month, it was that time of the month... and I was out of painkillers. I managed to fall asleep while in quite strong and sharp pain, and it felt just the same in my dream! It was a lucid dream, and all I did was to beg random DCs for painkillers, not caring that dream painkillers do not cure real pain.

One rather isolated lucid I had a few nights back, I tried to fly through a wall, but crashed into it face first, instead. It hurt, but only for about half a second; it felt rather like someone punched me in the face.

I think it is possible to feel pain in normal dreams, as well.

One of my more common pains in dreams is when I get persecuted by someone who wants to inject me something, the worst thing is that he or she always ends up injecting me in the worst places, such as my neck, it really hurts, this dream may be caused because I have a phobia for injections.

Hmm, I don't think I can remember every having any real pain in my dreams..

Yes I feel pain in dreams too at times so it is real alright, but it is not as intense as pain is in reality.