Thread: Can you "hurt" yourself when doing the fall-over trick?

I have fallen backwards in a dream trying a new flying technique and to my complete surprise, instead of floating like I was convinced would be the logical result to my action, I hit the back of my head against the hard ground and it hurt. But then the dream continued and there was never a time where the pain was unbearable. I think the difference between pain in dreams and in real life is that pain in real life is unbearable because it stays. My advice is pain shouldn't be a deterrent for you. It really is not the same as pain in real life, even past the fact that there is no harm actually being done.

Originally Posted by Occipitalred

I have fallen backwards in a dream trying a new flying technique and to my complete surprise, instead of floating like I was convinced would be the logical result to my action, I hit the back of my head against the hard ground and it hurt. But then the dream continued and there was never a time where the pain was unbearable. I think the difference between pain in dreams and in real life is that pain in real life is unbearable because it stays. My advice is pain shouldn't be a deterrent for you. It really is not the same as pain in real life, even past the fact that there is no harm actually being done.

I suppose you didn't try it again afterwards anymore?

Originally Posted by MemeViews

I suppose you didn't try it again afterwards anymore?

lol!

I haven't tried it again, but like I said in my post, not because I am repelled by the potential pain. I find pain to be just as interesting an experience in dreams as any other. I have always trusted my mind to protect me from overwhelming and harmful experiences in dreams. However, sometimes, I am surprised by the liberties it takes.

More so, this dream is another example to me that solidifies my disagreement with the popular belief that events in dreams are a result of expectations. I thought up the idea to do this within the dream. This means, it wasn't something I incubated but had last minute doubts as I was doing it for real. In the dream, it was logical that things only really exist subjectively (rather than objectively). It made sense that if I fell backwards rather than frontwards, I wouldn't see the ground so it wouldn't exist. This was obvious to me and I was simply looking forward to calmly floating in the sky. These were all assumptions, not planned thoughts in an attempt to trick my mind and perform dream control. Yet, it failed. This and many other experiences make me doubt that "if you expect it, it will happen," which people say to imply both the limits to what will occur in your dreams or the limitlessness of your dream control abilities.