Thread: Can you describe "dream" pain

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

Originally Posted by Maeni

A guy from my class, cross dressing once grabbed me by my balls and started squeezing.

That hurt.

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

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.

Originally Posted by DarkComrade

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

Hah.. Haha...

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. .

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.

Originally Posted by TokiDokiSaiko

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.

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.

Originally Posted by Shift

I've never heard that,

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.
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.

Originally Posted by WolfeDreamer531

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!

I'm reading all these posts about people who've experienced intense pain in their dreams and feel so happy I can't relate.

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.

Originally Posted by victorybear

I'm reading all these posts about people who've experienced intense pain in their dreams and feel so happy I can't relate.

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.
This one wasnt as nearly as bad as the zombies in the barn nightmare though.