My friend's painful experience

My friend told me that he was having a dream, and he said and i quote "a hot iron fell on me, and it hurt so bad it woke me up and the pain lingered for about 30 minutes or so." He said after he woke up he took a shower and inspected the hit area, his upper left torso and right next to his clavicle. There were no marks of any kind. I was just wondering if anyone else has experienced pain through a dream.

Its kinda like the matrix, if you feel pain in the matrix do you feel it in real life.

There was a topic on this once and it came to be shown that the sensory pain caused a lingering pain that impressed itself on the dreamer.

I'll try to find the thread.

I (almost) always feel pain in dreams, nothing special.
Just try to avoid it at all costs.