Thread: Why is there so many dream negativity posts?

Disclaimer: I continue talking about pain.

Well, if you are being serious, I apologize for my comment about you enjoying dark dreams. I was referring to this:

Originally Posted by GordanFreeman

let's see what you gonna do if giant spider chase you around in the dark woods

But I misread; I thought you were letting the dream be, but rather you didn't have the focus to stop it.

Obviously, whatever type of pain it is, it is valid; it is unpleasant at best and distressing at worst. But there are for sure different types of pains and there is a multitude of neuro-paths in the brain to process pain. And pain is influenced by other things than the nervous system, like the immune system, etc. I am not ready to admit that this statement is true or false: that dream pain uses the same neuro-pathways as physical pain. I am pretty sure they must be different, by virtue of one being expected pain and the other stimulus pain.

The point still stands: you have no physical body in dreams, just the illusion of one (well, except the one in bed).

Distressing pain in dreams is most likely a continuation of distressing pain in real life (physical or psychological), rather than the opposite.