I wasn't exactly sure where to put this topic. It's kind of dream related, but not strongly. Oh well, if the moderators see it would fit in better somewhere else, I'm sure they'll move it.

We've all experienced pain. It's not a nice feeling at all. But what makes it not a nice feeling? I mean, why is it such a horrible pain? I know it's supposed to be, because it's your body telling you to stop doing whatever it is you are doing to hurt yourself (or be hurt by something else), but what makes pain...hurt? It's hard to explain.

I've had times where if I focused completely on something else, people could turn my arm round so many times I should scream out like a hippo; but I didn't - I could feel pain; but it kind of didn't hurt... But I knew it was there. (God, this is hard to explain oo)

Also, isn't pain always worse when you know its about to happen? Like when there's a really hot radiator that's gonna burn you, you kind of find it scarier and it hurts more? But when you do it accidentaly, it's not as bad? I know this is true for some folk at least; a poor guy said it in his autobiography (he was beaten about by mean parents as a kid...joined criminal groups in London, etc etc), how when he knew his parents were going to beat him, it was worse than being beaten without knowing it was going to happen.

Oh well, hope you understood that. O_o