Feeling pain in dreams

**Runeword** · 09-10-2013 07:16 AM

Originally Posted by snoop

The above does not hold true for me. The same dream I talked about before... where my tool somehow got sliced off, I looked down and not only saw it was sliced off but held the severed pen0r in my hands. I still felt no pain, and then somehow I put the cut off end on top of the other cut off end and skin grew and manifested over the wound for a few seconds and then it was reattached like nothing even happened. This dream was non-lucid, thankfully. <_<

omg snoop? haha. i realize this is an old thread i am resurrecting but i was just about to make a post on the subject and this one had the most recent reply. i was just trying to describe this to my wife today about how i will feel actual physical pain in lucid dreams sometimes. i'm never worried about it carrying over into waking life but i am surprised sometimes if i get a rare lucid nightmare and being attacked and that hey, that actually hurt when some claws sunk into me or a blade slashed me. the mind is so powerful.

**duke396** · 09-10-2013 08:16 AM

I hope we don't get in trouble for posting in an old thread, but I was thinking about this the other day and wondering if other people felt pain in dreams because I don't think I do. When I fight hand to hand I usually don't feel anything but the contact (like touching or being touched by anything else in the dream world) even if it knocks me down. I have felt the tingling sensation that some describe when there is a blade or gun involved, but "fatal" wounds usually cause me to wake up. I can't think of a time I've been physically injured while lucid though. I guess I pretty much assume I'm invincible in an LD which...makes it true? Never put much thought into it.

**Gattaca** · 09-10-2013 12:40 PM

^
Well I had a disturbing dream just this morning.
Some medics came and immobilized me.Then one of them gets a big needle and shoves it directly in the middle of my chest.It was horrible, I felt it going right in my thorax.I couldn't breath because it hurt me so much and I think I even held my breath IRL.I felt my insides punctured by it for horrible seconds.
I woke up shortly glad it was only a dream

**Davidjcg1995** · 04-15-2014 08:21 PM

I have had dreams where I have been stabbed and it would be at different situations and I feel it going into me and it's like a sharp numbing pain, recently I had a dream of getting sliced under my arm then getting my back sliced open and feeling the same thing I am starting to not want to sleep because of the chance of having the dreams I have had this happen so many times I have lost count

**SinisterDezz** · 04-16-2014 05:44 PM

As Mal from Inception would tell you, "Pain is in the mind." *Shoots Arthur in Foot*

**sramsay12** · 04-20-2014 12:41 AM

I have had occasional superman moments of invincibility through sheer willpower, but I've also been tortured, and eaten alive a few times.. And it hurt. A lot.

**Conscience** · 04-20-2014 08:00 AM

yes, I have felt pain in one of my dreams... but I never feel pain in deep sleep dreams (actually I don't feel anything unless it's vivid)
in the dream I had I was falling down a balcony and when I hit the ground I woke up and my whole body hurt for a few seconds

**Gunpo** · 04-21-2014 04:08 AM

Ive fealt pain in dreams back when i was a kid. I was stabbed and shot and it fealt real, but i would always wake up shortly after and the pain would slowly fade

**Shinice** · 04-21-2014 04:31 PM

For me, I have never experienced pain in dreams before (thank goodness), be it shot by gun, stabbed by whatever, falling regardless of height. Only a a numb feel in the area that's all.

I'll get back up right after that as though nothing happened.