Printable View
Yes I know sometimes you can feel pain from the real world in your dreams much like you can hear things and put it in your dream. BUT: What i mean by pain is the false pain - as if your not really being hurt outside your dream but you just broke an arm and you feel that kind of "dream" soreness... it reminds me of the color orange for some reason.
Post your thoughts or experiences on this =D
hmmm, I've felt this in dreams before
Its feels like pain, only its not painful
More like the memory of pain, like when you remember how painful somthing was, and imagine it untill the point of where you can actually almost feel it.
Or the pain you feel for others when you witness them hurting themselves
people often say "oooh I felt that"
Interesting...
I have felt actual, stinging pain in dreams. Usually if I get hit by something like a rock.
A guy from my class, cross dressing once grabbed me by my balls and started squeezing.
That hurt.
Like, vivid pain. But then again not really, it was very much the feeling you get when you're about to be hit, like, adrenaline all over your head, the OMG I GOTTA DO SOMETHING feeling. I woke up after about 1 second into the feeling.
And it actually hurt afterwards, when I was in my bed, but it went away quite fast.
On another note, that was a really weird dream.
EDIT: Not lucid...
It's more like a sting. I noticed that when I affirm to myself that I'm still dreaming and that non of this is real, the pain just fades and causing me to feel better afterward- kinda like a stress reliever.
I've gotten shot twice in the chest, and it felt like a dull ache, like inside me. I could actually feel the arrow grazing my heart and all that, the blood and all. I sorta like it. Makes a dream more real
I have felt pain on occassion. I've also felt other sensations that kind of lasted a minute into waking up.
Wow, lots of interesting things - and sometimes i feel the stinging to, but i have never had a lucid dream since like 3rd grade and remember a dream like average of 1 every month or longer so i have less stories, but the last dream i remembered i face planted into the cement ground after falling from a fatal height, lost a tooth, had a weird pain but was surprised at how much it didnt hurt in dream - then i figured i had some sort of gift, then i got woken up =( lol
I've felt pain in lucid dreams; getting shot with arrows/stabbed with a knife/slashed with a sword and when I woke up I could still feel it for a while.. very wierd feeling!
I got shot in the face! It was an aching pain for some reason for me.
Describing dream pain is just as futal as describing what we call "Real" pain.
To me it feels something like pins and needles without the tinglyness, just the unbearable feeling you get along with it, or muscle spasms/contractions.
Once in a dream i got an electric shocked on the leg with what seemed to be a very high voltage. I woke up straight away and there was an aching pain in my leg, very odd. But i guess it was caused by some sort of muscle spasm when i was asleep :D.
On a different note however, there was a thread i read a week or so ago about someone who had been having dreams of being tickled. They couldn't wake up but said they felt the full sensation of being tickle whilst in the dream, they said it was like torture... This i find even more strange :shock:!!
I had the same but then this happend while fighting som1 he got me out of ballance, trowed me on the ground and then he called 2 friends of him to keep me still from moving. Then he grabbed my balls and started squeezing them, he was provoking me while laughing maniacly. When i woke up my balls still hurted like in my dream, they still hurted cos i was squeezing my own balls :shock:Quote:
Originally Posted by Maeni
I had a dream where i was attacked by my friends cat and scratched a huge gouge in my arm. It hurt pretty bad for a few seconds and blood shot out everywhere, but i forgot about it quickly and the pain went away. I have also had similar experiences with other feelings as well. I was in a dream one time where i was swimming in the ocean and when i woke up i had a salt water taste in my mouth.
It goes something like "OUCH! Hey that s**t hurt!"
No but seriously, it can be just like real pain in regular dreams. I never feel any pain when Im Lucid though, only when Im in a non-LD.
Hah.. Haha...Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkComrade
That's why Sleep Paralysis should keep working! >_<'
Well with me, it was just like after-pain, just like it feels after getting hurt IRL.
I didn't do anything to myself, but I still had the pain for a few 2-5 seconds after I woke up. .
Disagree - We can compare dream pain with real pain giving each other somewhat of a sense of how it feels (i.e. Aches, Stings, Sore)Quote:
Originally Posted by Reality_is_a_Dream
But what I call a "Sting", you may call a tickle, and our perception says that we feel the same thing, but the pain I feel may be thousands of times more intense than yours.
Eh i guess, but doesnt hurt to try and describe :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Reality_is_a_Dream
Dream pain feels like more of a discomfort to me than a real pain. There is also the fear of the pain, which seems to be there whether I'm lucid or not. Like when the doctor is about to put the needle in your vein to draw blood. You know it is not really going to hurt that much, but you still flinch. It is like the anticipation hurts more than the actual pain.
Then again, I've felt real pain in real life that is so terrible, it is impossible to remember accurately. It is like your mind is not able to hold onto that horrible painful feeling, so you don't form any memories of it.
Ugh, and that is one crappy way to lose lucidity... to panic in such a situation :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Robot_Butler
Can't remember the last time I felt pain in dreams. I feel soreness a lot when I'm running, it's actually a dream sign for me.
You only feel pain is you stop to focus on it. If there is something more pressing to distract your attention, you won't feel a thing. It's like little kids playing. A kid can hurt himself badly, but if he's having fun at what he's playing, he'll shake it off and jump back in the game. But if his parents make a big deal out of it and draw attention to his injury, he'll start to cry.
The more attention you give something, the more real it becomes. That is true of dreams or real life.
That makes a lot of senseQuote:
Originally Posted by The Cusp
Last night i had a really odd dream, were i put my hand on a sea-urchin. Its spikes went right into my fingers. It hurt like hell!! It felt like really painful pins-and-needles. I kept dreaming and i remember pulling the spikes out of my thumb with a pair of pliers. I woke up after this, and the pain dissappeared straight away, lol.
I thought this was slightly scary; as i usually wake up with pain in a dream, and this pain was much worse than anything I've experienced before in a dream!! :?
Well, usually it feels like pins and needles, and then I wake up to the dreaminjured limb ACTUALLY being asleep and tingling, but I HAVE been sliced and cut in dreams before. It feels what I'm sure ACTUALLY being sliced/cut would feel like in reality, but I had a MUCH higher tolerance for it. Like I was getting cut for a couple minutes, then realized I should be feeling pain, and then I felt the pain from the cuts there on out. Like it stung really bad but I was like 'eh...I can take it.'
That sort of worried me though because I'd heard that you aren't supposed to feel real pain in dreams. :\ oh well.
I've never heard that, but I think that would be like saying you aren't supposed to hear or see in dreams... I think it's totally normal. In my experience only people with regularly vivid dreams get/remember a lot of dream pain, so maybe that's why people say that.Quote:
Originally Posted by TokiDokiSaiko
I've suffered horrible pain in dreams - the worst I can remember is being stabbed in the chest and it really hurt - I woke up and it still hurt for a few minutes too! (But not as much once I was awake, more like the memory of pain) Very wierd.
Thinking farther back on where I heard that, I think it was my motehr taht told me when I was younger. I've had night terrors since I was young and I think she might have told me that to keep me from being too afraid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shift
Well, believing it worked up until recently. lol.
Now I noticed that once you believe you'll feel the pain, you do. :\
I have had all sorts of wierd things happening to me, like getting shot with a slingshot right through the head, eaten by a werewolf, flying out of control and hitting the pavement from a great height.
I find the pain is a sort of "pressure" to the area and it is attached to a negative emotion. So although it doesn't hurt physically like in the real world, I feel like something bad just happened and have a sort of anxiety over it in the dream.
Ive been eaten alive by zombies in a barn and felt every last time they bit me. Needless to say, it was a horrible nightmare and very painful one.
:O!!! Yikes!Quote:
Originally Posted by WolfeDreamer531
I'm reading all these posts about people who've experienced intense pain in their dreams and feel so happy I can't relate. :shock:
I think the closest I've come to feeling pain in a dream, was when I was paying for stuff at a supermarket and a riot suddenly started up inside. The cashier pulled out an axe from under the counter and promptly scalped me. It was like a really intense headache for a couple seconds, and then this cold sensation spread out from the wound and I blacked out.
Ive been axed up before too. It was a nightmare I had a long time ago, but its one of those I probably wont evr forget. It was like in the 16th or 17 century and I was in the body of someone who had been locked in a castle for doing something wrong. Then as I looked out, I noticed there was an insane man w/ an axe coming for me, but being locked in, there was nothing I could do about it. He eventually got to the top and then began swinging madly at my back.Quote:
Originally Posted by victorybear
This one wasnt as nearly as bad as the zombies in the barn nightmare though.
Pain in dreams is not always like pain in real life, it is easier to take, and not as strong most of the time, it is similar to the diffrences between a real life orgasm and a dream orgasm the feeling is not bound by a specific set of stimuli, it may range in to diffrent types of closely related feelings.
Well none of the pain ive ever experienced really was that bad at all... in fact it wasnt actually pain... more a feeling to take the place of pain. lol zombie thing sounds horrible... i dont know how well ide do in a dark room after that dream