Pain in Lucid dreams?

I was wondering if you can experience pain in your lucid dreams. If so that kinda sucks because then your limited to what you do in them. The reason why I bring this up is because I had a dream last night where I was stabbed in the gut by this crazy guy and it hurt like what I can only imagine actually getting stabbed feels like. The pain was so intense it woke me up and I almost fell out of my bed it hurt so much.
Anyways just wondering if any of you guys could share some of your experiences on the matter... =D

Pain in lucid dreams is no different to pain in normal dreams. In dreams, everything is all about expectation and confidence. From being raised in a reality where pain is to be expected in certain circumstances (e.g. being stabbed :P), you expected it to hurt in your dreams, even if not on a conscious level. Just like touch. You might feel things in your dreams but not consciously be aware of it because you take your senses for granted in waking life.

So if I was in a lucid dream and in a situation like being stabbed again, if i knew it wasn't real and focused on not feeling any pain is it possible? or is it so integrated into our subconscious that is to much of an automatic reaction to being hurt? guess what asking is if you have in your lucid dreams imagined there to be no pain in a situation that normally would be fairly painful and had it happen?

Yeah - pain in dreams is whatever you would expect/imagine it to be. If you were aware of the fact that you were dreaming and consciously affirmed that what you were about to do would not hurt as you were dreaming, it would not.

The dreams I feel fear and/or pain are only those that I am not aware I am dreaming in. If you are sufficiently lucid, I don't believe that you can feel pain..

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Originally Posted by Duffles22

So if I was in a lucid dream and in a situation like being stabbed again, if i knew it wasn't real and focused on not feeling any pain is it possible? or is it so integrated into our subconscious that is to much of an automatic reaction to being hurt? guess what asking is if you have in your lucid dreams imagined there to be no pain in a situation that normally would be fairly painful and had it happen?

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Absolutely. A dream character tried to stab me a few months back and I was so angry that I didn't even feel anything (actually, I don't even know if the blade ended up piercing me). The bottom line is that your dreams work mainly on expectation and confidence. If you confidence wavers and you think that you might be stabbed, the chance of getting stabbed or feeling the pain of it increases a lot more.

Well that's good to hear. On a side note this conversation reminded me a lot of the matrix. =D

I often feel pain in dreams... Maybe that's a reason why I have trouble realizing when I'm dreaming. I used to have this recurring dream where it was like, raining knives and they all stabbed me at once. (Hmm, I don't want to know what Freud would think of that...) But anyway, in the dream it would actually really hurt, and I would wake up totally freaked out. It was pretty awful. But like you've both been saying, I imagine that in lucid dreams I would be able to prevent such imagined pain from happening. :)

In lucid nightmares, yes. The pain is always what it would actually feel like in real life. Usually in these dreams I try to use my normal methods of control to avoid the pain - if I'm being rushed at by someone with a knife for instance, I'd pretend I'm invulnerable - but it seldom works out. :P Usually if the dream itself creates scary situations involving pain, I won't be able to stop it, but if I create the scenario, that's an entirely different story.

Pain is in the mind ;).

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Originally Posted by Sushi

In lucid nightmares, yes. The pain is always what it would actually feel like in real life. Usually in these dreams I try to use my normal methods of control to avoid the pain - if I'm being rushed at by someone with a knife for instance, I'd pretend I'm invulnerable - but it seldom works out. :P Usually if the dream itself creates scary situations involving pain, I won't be able to stop it, but if I create the scenario, that's an entirely different story.

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Awww! .__.