Feeling my body in real life, don't know what to do. PLEASE HELP!!!

**WarBenifit156** · 09-03-2010 02:11 PM

So in a couple of my lucid dreams I've felt my body in real life. And I don't know how to stop it. Here's the two feelings that bothered me.

The first one was that I could feel my teeth hurting (I have good teeth, no cavities) and I brushed my teeth twice (once in the morning, and once at night) but they still hurt.

The second one was really weird, I successfully did a DEILD and a few seconds later in the lucid dream I could feel my eye's hurting (ya know that feeling that you get if you keep your eye's open for too long. That's what it was) and it made me think. "Maybe in real life my eye's are still open." So I tried to wake myself up.

Could someone please give me some help, I don't like it when this happens? It ruins the whole experience.

**Supernova** · 09-03-2010 02:27 PM

That's odd. Unless you would have some reason for your teeth/eyes to be hurting, maybe you weren't actually feeling your real body. Either way, best thing to do in general right after you become lucid is to stabalize by focusing on sensory input from the dream. Tactile sensations seem to be the most effective for this. Find something nearby with an interesting texture and run your hands across it. Really try to root yourself in the dream world with the feeling of whatever the object is. One note, keep what ypu're seeing in mind at the same time. Vision seems to be the number oe sense in terms of your construction of the dream world (makes sense, it's the one you use most in waking life, and if I'm not mistaken about a third of your brain is devoted to sight.) It seems that if you focus too much on the tactile and not on your vision, the visual component for the things you're not paying atttention to (those you're not examining through tactile) seems to sort of dissapear. It has for me anyway. Splitting your attention like that has also helped me stabalize effectively. If none of that works, I'm not sure what to tell you.

**Siphorix** · 09-03-2010 03:05 PM

In regard to teeth hurting:
I had a buddy who experienced the same problem. You MAY be one of the night sleepers who grind their teeth and/or clench. My friend kept having LDs where his jaw or teeth would hurt. Turns out he was unconsciously clenching and grinding, which caused "bleed-through feeling".

"bleed-through feeling" is when you can feel something in real world, and then something in occurs in your dream to relay those sensations... Same thing can happen via sound and other means.
Example: (the alarm clock goes off in your room "beep beep beep", you hear it in your dream, but the sound is coming from your jetpack telling you its out of gas)

I've been in a dream where I could feel my stomach hurting in the real world.. I had conscious awareness of both my real body and dream body. In both the same area was in pain.

In regard to eyes hurting:
-Perhaps the REM was adding excess strain to your eyes, not giving them a chance to stop and relax.

-Maybe they were slightly open, and the fluids that lace your eyes when you sleep got exposed to the air, causing to thicken, thus making your eyes have to put more effort to move them.

-Maybe you have a astigmatism and/or were sleeping "cross-eyed".