Pain in dreams?

[AkiKaza-chan]

Okay, so I was having a weird dream last night about NUMB3RS, David Krumholtz, an African escaped convict Endurance camp, fish, and shrimp. (If you love your sanity, please don't ask.) Anyway, towards the end of the dream, as I was holding a giant pile of shrimp in my arms, one crawled on my head and bit my ear. I was electrocuted, and it HURT. Like actual PAIN. I thought you weren't suppossed to feel pain in your dreams? Actually, I think I've always experienced pain to some degree. If this keeps happening, it's going to SERIOUSLY degrade my want to jump of a building if I ever become lucid ;p

[Pyrofan1]

I thought you weren't suppossed to feel pain in your dreams? lie

[Sugarglider11]

You will feel pain in a dream if it is non-lucid, you have little control, or you want too. I have felt pain before in a lucid dream from jumping off of a fence, but it only hurts for a few seconds.

[Dewitback]

lie hahaha! yeah, i feel pain in my dreams too, not often at all, but from time to time, but its not excruciating or anything. sometimes I'll almost drown too! but,,, no pain, no feeling anything else either...

[Rare]

Yup pain is certainly something that can be experienced within dreams. I think it varys from person to person, and it is be possible to mitigate the experience to be less painful, or to feel no pain at all. (I think, still working on that) I've stumbled into a number of sword \ knife fights and had to deal with painful sensations. 1. I got better at avoidance. 2. Instead of thinking about ow this is gonna hurt, I just kinda learned to brush off the sensation as meaningless. (kinda hard to explain). Now if a strike happens to make it past my defenses it doesn't feel that bad.

[Idolfan]

What the hell I thought everyone felt pain in dreams!? Oh lucky me.

[O'nus]

This is not actual pain so much as it would be your memory of pain or what you would imagine it would be like. This is how dreams work: - In waking life, imagine being electrocuted; nothing happens right? You do not actually feel the pain. - In dreams, if you imagine this pain, those neurotransmitters which inhibit your memories or imagination from projecting your thoughts as real are inhibited. Thus, when you imagine the pain, it actually comes 'real'. This is similar to how hallucinations work in waking life. I hope this has been enlightening. ~

[Barns]

Wow that makes a lot of sense. I have always felt pain in dreams, but it isn't as proportionate, for example; getting stabbed will give you stomache pains.

[O'nus]

Wow that makes a lot of sense. I have always felt pain in dreams, but it isn't as proportionate, for example; getting stabbed will give you stomache pains. Well, where do you typically expect/imagine getting stabbed? PS. mut's rule. ~

[Barns]

Oh, sorry, I was a bit unclear there, What I was saying was that if I get stabbed in the stomache in a dream it will only hurt as much as indigestion would, not as much as getting stabbed.