Thread: i felt PAIN in my dream

yesterday i had a dream,in that someone pulled my finger hardly and i yelled it really hurts ..after woke up i realize how can i felt pain in my dream because i heard most of the people told the pain is the one of the reality check ,but in my dream i felt pain how it is possible...i am in big confusion......

This seems to explain it nicely.

Who said pain is a reality check? It's not, since you can feel pain the dream... just as you experienced now.

Yep, you can feel pain in a dream. It's also possible to not feel pain in a dream. If something caused pain in one dream that doesn't mean it will also cause pain in another. You just learned a lesson on the strange, relative nature of dreams.

@liitlezoe oh but pinching the skin is one of the reality check right if it is hurts (PAIN)you are in real world else you are in dream , same concept that im tried to say above

Originally Posted by karthik

@liitlezoe oh but pinching the skin is one of the reality check right if it is hurts (PAIN)you are in real world else you are in dream , same concept that im tried to say above

No. That's a misconception spread by movies.

You might feel pain in the dream when you pinch yourself or you might not. It's not reliable.

Originally Posted by littlezoe

No. That's a misconception spread by movies.

You might feel pain in the dream when you pinch yourself or you might not. It's not reliable.

oh :O you mean it is unstable right but few months back i saw top ten reality check in that skin pinching was at a 1st position after that i tried to follow the same ,even i succeeded once by using this as a reality check

Originally Posted by karthik

oh :O you mean it is unstable right but few months back i saw top ten reality check in that skin pinching was at a 1st position after that i tried to follow the same ,even i succeeded once by using this as a reality check

You should on use reality checks that are as reliable as possible. Pinching yourself is extremely unreliable. Stick with ones that are proven to be more reliable like plugging your noes and trying to breath through it.

BTW instead of double posting edit your previous post.

@dms111 thnx bro

@madmonkey ah ya

Pinching yourself is an awful RC.

Would you mind linking to the resource you read, so we can see what other "information" you learned from it?

I've been punched in the back of the head, flung into a metal beam by a bungee chord and injected with AIDs at a concert, all in me dreams.

Hurt every time.

I always get pain in my dreams but it's always ten times worse than what it would be in real life, damn dreams lol

i remember once I felt like I got shot in the back of the head in a dream and the pain was enough to wake me up, and it was still there for a little after waking.

Originally Posted by karthik

yesterday i had a dream,in that someone pulled my finger hardly and i yelled it really hurts ..after woke up i realize how can i felt pain in my dream because i heard most of the people told the pain is the one of the reality check ,but in my dream i felt pain how it is possible...i am in big confusion......

Uhm, scents can be reality checks, since your body keeps your nose on the lookout in the real world to smell danger of some kinds. Not sure about pain though 'cause I've had the same thing, I got stabbed actually. Bloody scary... O.O

lol, you fail a little bit of pain? xD

Like everyone said above, it's completely normal to feel pain in a dream. But I'm not sure if it can be classified as 'pain', because anyone who has a bit of experience will know that it doesn't 'hurt', it's more of a jolting experience, as if you got electrocuted at the area.

Mirrors are not for looking. They are for entering.

Originally Posted by Max ツ

Like everyone said above, it's completely normal to feel pain in a dream. But I'm not sure if it can be classified as 'pain', because anyone who has a bit of experience will know that it doesn't 'hurt', it's more of a jolting experience, as if you got electrocuted at the area.

I would definitely classify it as pain. Pain in my dreams can sometimes feel like uber intense bee stings. Piercing, unrelenting, sickening. I wake up with the pain still lingering and feeling sick to my stomach. Both the lingering pain and nausea fade quickly, though. It's probably gone in 5 seconds. This type of pain is very rare for me but it has happened a few times.

Originally Posted by dms111

Mirrors are not for looking. They are for entering.



I would definitely classify it as pain. Pain in my dreams can sometimes feel like uber intense bee stings. Piercing, unrelenting, sickening. I wake up with the pain still lingering and feeling sick to my stomach. Both the lingering pain and nausea fade quickly, though. It's probably gone in 5 seconds. This type of pain is very rare for me but it has happened a few times.

I dunno, I have felt a considerable amount of pain both in real life and in dreams and have sometimes gotten the same wounds. Even in a high quality LD, it just doesn't seem . . . real.

There's something about it I can't describe. Pain while awake is different, it's real, and it's much more intense.

Maybe our brains can't replicate pain that well. But then why shouldn't it, it can replicate almost every other feeling. =.=

Originally Posted by Max ツ

I dunno, I have felt a considerable amount of pain both in real life and in dreams and have sometimes gotten the same wounds. Even in a high quality LD, it just doesn't seem . . . real.

There's something about it I can't describe. Pain while awake is different, it's real, and it's much more intense.

Maybe our brains can't replicate pain that well. But then why shouldn't it, it can replicate almost every other feeling. =.=

It varies from person to person. I only feel a short dull sensation if anything when I get hurt in my dreams but I know it is possible to feel hyper realistic pain as well. The brain can make you experience any kind of sensation, even bizarre and made up ones. The reason some people don't feel pain and others do is because of previous experiences, expectations, schema, etc.

Originally Posted by Max ツ

I dunno, I have felt a considerable amount of pain both in real life and in dreams and have sometimes gotten the same wounds. Even in a high quality LD, it just doesn't seem . . . real.

There's something about it I can't describe. Pain while awake is different, it's real, and it's much more intense.

Maybe our brains can't replicate pain that well. But then why shouldn't it, it can replicate almost every other feeling. =.=

I felt even more intense pain in dreams that i never experienced in real... and it definitely didn't feel like getting shocked lightly

Originally Posted by littlezoe

I felt even more intense pain in dreams that i never experienced in real... and it definitely didn't feel like getting shocked lightly

*cough*

who said anything about shocked LIGHTLY?

Originally Posted by Max ツ

Even in a high quality LD, it just doesn't seem . . . real.

Oh, were you referring to pain in lucid dreams? I was talking about ordinary dreams. I've never felt pain in a lucid dream. I've felt some mild discomfort. Yeah, sort of like that jolt you mentioned.

I have felt pain a few times. 1st time - I got hit in the head by a ball. 2nd time - Has vanished from my head.. D'oh

I think you feel pain in your dreams because you do have real pain in your body. Your body feels pain when your asleep and the feeling comes into your dream. Only your dreaming mind will make it another story, for example; you dream that you got hit in the head by a ball and it hurts, you wake up and your head still hurts. That's probably because you already had a headache and your dreaming mind registered it and formed a dream around it.

Originally Posted by Chicken

I think you feel pain in your dreams because you do have real pain in your body. Your body feels pain when your asleep and the feeling comes into your dream. Only your dreaming mind will make it another story, for example; you dream that you got hit in the head by a ball and it hurts, you wake up and your head still hurts. That's probably because you already had a headache and your dreaming mind registered it and formed a dream around it.

I never really thought of it that way, I suppose that could be true - but I wouldn't say necessarily for all cases. Pain is in the mind, so it's only natural that the mind is able to recreate pain in a dream state, in the same way that you can feel anything in a dream.