Thread: Creepy Experience

Maybe something happened with your leg during your sleep or, who knows, maybe your dream pain transferred to waking life. I got a wasp sting last night on my hand in my dream and woke up to find my hand was asleep and had that prickling sensation you get when that happens.

Ouch. All day my legs been aching, and it feels almost like I sprained my ankle. WTH??

You probably had a cramp in your muscle. Those will wake you up in the middle of the night...excrutiatingly painful!! Lasts for a few moments. Then you can stand, but sort of limp. You'll still feel the pain of a really bad cramp the whole day sometimes.

Does this sound like what it could have been? I've woken up with cramps in my calf muscles before and it was agony!!! lol...I could barely walk the day after.

Most likely a charlie horse. It's quite common to get them in your legs while in a dead sleep...or at least, it's quite common for me. Dunno about others. I'll sometimes wake up abruptly in the middle of the night with a tearing pain in one of my calf muscles, and I usually have to kick that leg repeatedly in the air before the pain will finally subside.

I hear you're supposed to counter a charlie horse by immediately getting up and trying to walk on it. Never tried it, though.

That happened to me once in my stomach, and quite a few times in my upper right hip. It was excruciating. I thought there was something wrong with me. Although I never dreamt about hurting them.

Yeah, I had a stretch of maybe three weeks about six months ago where I was waking up with charlie horses frequently, and it hurt like hell. The first time was the worst; I've been lucky enough never to have had a serious injury, and that was one of the worst, if not THE worst pain I've had in my life.

Yeah, the pain probably transferred from real life into your dreams, not the other way around.

Would be freaky if that could happen though. Now that I'm imagining all the injuries I've sustained in my dreams... ouch.