Hey all,
I just recently found this website and this thread as I was googleing the very question "pain in lucid dreams?". I have been able to have lucid dreams for around a year now, but more recently (last 4 dreams) I have experienced greater sensations including pain and I was curious if anyone else felt this as well. To be specific the most realistic pain I'm referring to was someone stabbing me in the leg with a syringe several times. lol, imagine my surprise in the dream when I actually felt pain (and it did feel like a real syringe), I then tried to end the dream by "escaping", instead of just waking up. I have felt several other sensation before, i.e, scraping, falling, touch, even flying, however those all tended to be due to my 'choices/actions' in a dream, i.e. not necessarily imposed on me (with a few exceptions). In conclusion, I believe that what you expect of a dream is what you're gonna get. If you enter a dream state where everything is realistic then it will feel like it, however if you enter a more fictionalized dream state (where you believe yo can fly for example) the realism may be reduced and you can avoid feeling pain.