Thread: The pain of lucid dreams.

Honestly I've never felt pain in a dream. Like you've said it's all kind of numb, not really there. I remember in one dream I got shot multiple times, trying to dodge the bullets but being shot nonetheless, and walked away like it was nothing.

In lucid dreams I believe it's the same thing. In fact, you shouldn't be able to feel pain really since you know that you actually are dreaming. I have heard accounts of people feeling pain in dreams, but not lucid ones.

I rarely feel pain in my dreams (normal or lucid) and when I do it is very dull.

I have felt pain in lucid dreams. Has been very realistic, but I can turn it off pretty easily if I want to as well.

I feel pain in non-lucid dreams, but not in lucids because then I'm aware and know that nothing can hurt me. The biggest thing I've do so far in that respect was that I cut out my own heart for a Task of the Month: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/siby...tm-dild-55758/

Didn't hurt one bit.

ive fealt pain in dreams a few times and they hurt pretty bad

i was shot in the armpit, stabbed in the back, and bitten and they all fealt realistic even tho ive never been shot or stabbed

I have felt some pain in lucid dreams, like a strangling sensation and a burning in my throat, and this is usually because i feel like my waking body is actually choking and i wake myself up, however i have never really been choking. It always feels very real, and it does hurt, like what i imagine being strangled would actually feel like. Its something i need to work on getting rid of because ive lost some good potential lucid dreaming experiences due to this..

I want to feel pain in my dreams and lucid dreams. I think it'll make it more interesting and fun and I'd be more cautious about what I do. Here's a copy from a journal from a while back when I felt pain:

The young guy exits the trailer and blows himself to bits with the missile launcher. I run to pick up the missle launcher and press the small button. My ear gets an agonizing pain from my eardrum being ruptured by the noise of the missiles but I manage to kill some sharks. I grab the button with my right hand and shoot the sharks. My ear doesn't hurt as bad from that shot.

I haven't yet been able to Lucid Dream (only started 2 days ago) but I do have quite a good rate of dream recall and I can't remember feeling any pain in my normal dreams/nightmares; even though my body has been hurt in them occasionally.

My friend who does Lucid Dream says you can feel the pain but as you describe it's quite numbed out or diluted

It can get pretty intense.

So real, you will wake up silently screaming at 2:00 AM... Yea, that happened to me.

That was a lucid though, and I have no experience with non-lucid dream pain that I can recall.

I can feel pain in my dreams, like getting stabbed, sinking in lava, drowning, and even emotional pain. In very bad nightmares it can get to the point where I'm crying in my sleep or screaming. It feels pretty real.

I've never felt pain in dreams, but i know my friend did use a rocket launcher the wrong way in a lucid dream, and it hurt so badly that it hurt him for a while in the morning too. (He had the back of the RPG right in his face. -_-)

Hmmm. I can feel pain in dreams but it's never as strong as it would be in real life. My reactions are the same, though. The only way I can explain it is that it's like some part of me does feel the full extent of it and reacts, but I don't. I feel the emotions of it, and a sort of approximation, but I'm shielded from the full force of the pain. Meanwhile my dream body will be on the ground screaming. So that's weird.

Other times I either won't feel it, or will feel some approximation of it and react appropriately. I had a dream where I basically took a rocket through the shoulder (what is it with rocket-launcher-related dream injuries?), but couldn't fully feel it and kept on going like I was fine. The wound somehow was already healing up within a few minutes, and just felt sort of sore.