Bullets always feel like being lightly punched to me--the pain has never been an issue, just the strangeness of "carrying a bullet". Since the first dreams in which I've been shot, I've learned to "lose" the bullets so that they do not weigh me down--either by forcing them out of my skin or "dissolving" them within my flesh or focusing on changing the situation so that I "forget" I've been shot.

I've been shot in the head, and then pretended to be dead with my eyes open. It feels much like a soft blow to the head, with some "ringing" in my ears, and then a numbness and paralysis that last a few seconds. If I become incapacitated in such a way I usually wait until the antagonist is far enough away/distracted and then get up and surprise them like some half-dead villain rising up from the ground during the climax of a horror movie. I go for the eyes and the throat (I always seem to take on some unspeakable animalistic form when I feel threatened). It works a charm.

Knives are different though. Being stabbed seems to be much more lasting a sensation, although I don't usually let it stop me from ripping the blade out and using it for my own purposes. I recently stabbed this very scary nightmare that threatened a loved one right after he'd cut my throat--laughing and kissing him on the cheek after I'd turned the knife around on him.

To read all of this you would probably think I am the violent type but there's absolutely no parallel for it in the real (I am 5'3" and 115 lb and completely non-confrontational). I think I just like the taste of power it brings . . .