Severe Pain in a Disturbing Dream

[Loaf]

I've been lucid dreaming as a hobby for 3 years now, and I've experienced the works much like others who lucid dream for several years: taste, feeling, sound, smells. And occasionally, pain. I used to feel really harsh stinging feelings in my feet if I ever dreamed barefoot (I often dreamed I had no shoes and was in the center of a crop circle that had been harvested, leaving behind sharp, jagged, splintery stubs everywhere-- running through it hurt like fuck). Last night I had a particularly disturbing dream that I want to share. I'll skip to the point of the dream. I was going along a dirt road in an industrial area and went into a building of people who I seemed to believe were suspicious or "evil". The building was modern; a tall black door, tall ceilings, clean white walls, shiny tiled floors. I was greeted by someone, rushed into a room, and put on a table. "The surgery shall begin on your face," a doctor said... he was in his surgeons clothing, he had blond hair and glasses, and a thin face. "But wait, I think there is a mistake I..." he puts a mask over my face. Things blacken out but I can still make the outlines of them doing the surgery on me, as it timelapses to fast speed; I can see a big circular saw and can feel it cutting my face, a really heavy vibration on my cheeks and forehead, like pins and needles suddenly occurs. I feel my legs twitching and other doctors hold me down. Suddenly I whiteout and I am in a modern lounge room. I feel pain... horrible pain. Its a pressurized aching on my teeth. It feels like someone is pushing on them, trying to rip them out of my gums. Like someone is tugging on them. Its a deep ache, to the point I find my mouth hanging open and drool running down my face; it hurts too much to close my jaw. I go to a mirror, and all my teeth have been pushed together. It looks like they were slowing pushing inwards, clumping together in rows in my mouth.... did I mention it hurts? I panic. It hurts so much, I become lucid but confused and scared. As the dream switches and jumps, the pain goes and I forget. I have no idea what happened. I wonder if I was grinding my teeth but... jesus... this was really nothing like the feeling of biting down. It was odd... Other parts of the dream: - WakingNomad appears, then we all get stoned; seriously wtf - I steal money Thanks for reading.

[Stirred]

I hear tooth-related dreams are quite common, usually involving them falling out or rotting. Usually they are associated with anxiety. Also doesn't this belong in General Dream Discussion/Dream Interpretation forum?

[Loaf]

I hear tooth-related dreams are quite common, usually involving them falling out or rotting. Usually they are associated with anxiety. Also doesn't this belong in General Dream Discussion/Dream Interpretation forum? I'm not asking for an interpretation, but rather highlighting what can be at times extreme pain in the dream world, and how its possible to feel such extreme sensations. Any teeth anxiety related dreams are related to teeth falling out, not physical pain in ones face and gums.

[Hukif]

Nightmares generally involve extreme sensations whitouth the waking up, so long as you stay focused on the dream it will continue, regardless of how intense something might feel.

[Pris]

Once I had a dream where, as soon as I became lucid, I tried to fly. But instead, I fell down and hit the ground with my spine. It hurt as hell. Afterwards, I went to another room of the house I was in, feeling confused. Everything was so real, senses were multiplied, late summer sun piercing through the window blinds, wooden floor, noises in the background... but no dream control. In that other room, there were some guys with a knife. They were fighting and one of them told me he was going to stab me. Hahahaha, my reaction was something like: go ahead, I'm curious about the pain (cause I wasn't scared, considering being lucid). So he stabbed me in my left shoulder, I definitely felt the pain, but it wasn't that strong. After that I began to control the situation and DCs, I turned them from being violent to being friendly, then I left the room. I think it's not that big of a deal feeling the pain in a dream. It feels real just as everything else does, but it most probably isn't real, it's just a mind trickery.

[Diamondec]

The most pain I ever felt would have to be when I got stabbed by a jagged knife in my dreams. When faced with those kind of dreams I forcibly wake myself up. I do this by shaking my head slowly to one side than the other while focusing on waking up.

[Puffin]

I've felt TERRIBLE pain in dreams; it's almost scary how strong it can feel! One dream in particular that I've experienced stands out to me. In it, I felt more severe pain than anything I had ever experienced before in waking life. It was an incredibly realistic sensation and I woke up feeling a strong trace of the pain. Spoiler for slightly descriptive?: The dream basically involved me being paralyzed on a bed, lying on my stomach, with a figure standing over me. I felt a knife dig multiple times into my back and run along my shoulder blades; each of the strokes was long and drawn out, and the pain was like a massive paper cut, plus the sensation of parting flesh and dripping blood. The pain was also very local and isolated, not just a powerful soreness. I was screaming so loud that my head started to hurt, and just nearly became lucid from the whole thing. It terrified the piss out of me.

[Loaf]

Sounds terrible. This is exactly what I was looking for Puffin, someone else remembering a really disturbing dream that leads to considerably harsh pain beyond slight uncomfortable sensations sometimes felt in dreams. I find it interesting how you also were lying on something with a figure over you, the same way my painful dream started... very interesting.

[gab]

Maybe I'm asking a silly question, but have you considered, that it was real pain that got incorporated into your dream? I remember couple of regular (not lucid) dreams, where I had considerable pain and upon waking up I realized, that I was in some crooked position, or a pimple formed behind my ear (I know) and hurt like heck. I guess I was lucky, that both times dream decided to help me and I dreamt of doctors helping me, and not some monsters chewing on me.

[Loaf]

Maybe I'm asking a silly question, but have you considered, that it was real pain that got incorporated into your dream? Yeah, I've been trying to assume what real world influences could have caused this but, as stated in the OP, it was not the sensation of teeth grinding (nor could I replicate it) and the pain seemed to disappear immediately as the dream changed and I got distracted. I have not experienced this before, or after the dream. I don't have any history of dental issues either, and it was not nerve pain from sensitive teeth.

[TahliaK]

Your experience sounds scary as hell!. I was once in a lucid and a doctor DC had me tied down to a chair. He got plyers and was about to start pulling out my teeth. I thankfully managed to force myself awake. I remember three main dreams. I wasn't me in the dream, I was this character I made up, Chillin (he's a gang member to a gang, very friendly though). He talks way to much..* Well. I dreamt the people from a gang was sick of him talking so a group of people shoved him around before holding him down to the ground, several people were holding him/sitting on him. One guy grabbed a pair of plyers and was slowly pulling out his tongue. The pain and fear I felt was just plain horrible.* Another one. I kept having a re-prayed situation in a dream were I was being chased by a werewolf. The werewolf caught me and once he had, he'd kill me. *This kept happening over and over again. I felt pain every single time I was attacked and killed. The pain hurt so badly. I was lucid in this one. I was trying to get myself to wake up because I was having a scary lucid that I couldn't control. Anyway, at one point, this spirit that I couldn't see but I could sense. It constricted invisible rope around my stomach/chest so it was very hard for me to breath. It then lifte me up and started throwing me against the walls. Yes, I felt a lot of pain but thankfully I woke myself up. I always normally feel pain in my dreams.

[Trevorm7]

I've had some pretty bad sensations. One time my hand was deformed and I had webbed finger, it felt like the skin between my fingers was being stretched tight to the point it was going to rip. Also had a dream where my elbow and knee joints were bending backwards, it was hard to move and very painful. Sometimes I get a pressure in my head like there is an expanding balloon trying to push its way out, it got so bad once that I was afraid my head would explode and woke myself up. Also when in the "vibration stage" it feels like there is strong electrical current flowing through my head, it can get really sore feeling like someone is sandblasting my forehead or something.

[ShadowOfSelf]

I would say its to do with your throat chakra, its your sub conscious pointing out something not conscious to you. Meditate and/or use crystals to help balance your energys. Just my two cents