Thread: Can you describe "dream" pain

hmmm, I've felt this in dreams before
Its feels like pain, only its not painful
More like the memory of pain, like when you remember how painful somthing was, and imagine it untill the point of where you can actually almost feel it.
Or the pain you feel for others when you witness them hurting themselves
people often say "oooh I felt that"
Interesting...

I have felt actual, stinging pain in dreams. Usually if I get hit by something like a rock.

A guy from my class, cross dressing once grabbed me by my balls and started squeezing.

That hurt.

Like, vivid pain. But then again not really, it was very much the feeling you get when you're about to be hit, like, adrenaline all over your head, the OMG I GOTTA DO SOMETHING feeling. I woke up after about 1 second into the feeling.
And it actually hurt afterwards, when I was in my bed, but it went away quite fast.

On another note, that was a really weird dream.

EDIT: Not lucid...

It's more like a sting. I noticed that when I affirm to myself that I'm still dreaming and that non of this is real, the pain just fades and causing me to feel better afterward- kinda like a stress reliever.

I've gotten shot twice in the chest, and it felt like a dull ache, like inside me. I could actually feel the arrow grazing my heart and all that, the blood and all. I sorta like it. Makes a dream more real

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...archid=1963352

I have felt pain on occassion. I've also felt other sensations that kind of lasted a minute into waking up.

Wow, lots of interesting things - and sometimes i feel the stinging to, but i have never had a lucid dream since like 3rd grade and remember a dream like average of 1 every month or longer so i have less stories, but the last dream i remembered i face planted into the cement ground after falling from a fatal height, lost a tooth, had a weird pain but was surprised at how much it didnt hurt in dream - then i figured i had some sort of gift, then i got woken up =( lol

I've felt pain in lucid dreams; getting shot with arrows/stabbed with a knife/slashed with a sword and when I woke up I could still feel it for a while.. very wierd feeling!

I got shot in the face! It was an aching pain for some reason for me.

Describing dream pain is just as futal as describing what we call "Real" pain.

To me it feels something like pins and needles without the tinglyness, just the unbearable feeling you get along with it, or muscle spasms/contractions.

Once in a dream i got an electric shocked on the leg with what seemed to be a very high voltage. I woke up straight away and there was an aching pain in my leg, very odd. But i guess it was caused by some sort of muscle spasm when i was asleep .

On a different note however, there was a thread i read a week or so ago about someone who had been having dreams of being tickled. They couldn't wake up but said they felt the full sensation of being tickle whilst in the dream, they said it was like torture... This i find even more strange !!

Originally Posted by Maeni

A guy from my class, cross dressing once grabbed me by my balls and started squeezing.

That hurt.

I had the same but then this happend while fighting som1 he got me out of ballance, trowed me on the ground and then he called 2 friends of him to keep me still from moving. Then he grabbed my balls and started squeezing them, he was provoking me while laughing maniacly. When i woke up my balls still hurted like in my dream, they still hurted cos i was squeezing my own balls

I had a dream where i was attacked by my friends cat and scratched a huge gouge in my arm. It hurt pretty bad for a few seconds and blood shot out everywhere, but i forgot about it quickly and the pain went away. I have also had similar experiences with other feelings as well. I was in a dream one time where i was swimming in the ocean and when i woke up i had a salt water taste in my mouth.

It goes something like "OUCH! Hey that s**t hurt!"

No but seriously, it can be just like real pain in regular dreams. I never feel any pain when Im Lucid though, only when Im in a non-LD.

Originally Posted by DarkComrade

I had the same but then this happend while fighting som1 he got me out of ballance, trowed me on the ground and then he called 2 friends of him to keep me still from moving. Then he grabbed my balls and started squeezing them, he was provoking me while laughing maniacly. When i woke up my balls still hurted like in my dream, they still hurted cos i was squeezing my own balls

Hah.. Haha...

That's why Sleep Paralysis should keep working! >_<'

Well with me, it was just like after-pain, just like it feels after getting hurt IRL.
I didn't do anything to myself, but I still had the pain for a few 2-5 seconds after I woke up. .

Originally Posted by Reality_is_a_Dream

Describing dream pain is just as futal as describing what we call "Real" pain.

Disagree - We can compare dream pain with real pain giving each other somewhat of a sense of how it feels (i.e. Aches, Stings, Sore)

But what I call a "Sting", you may call a tickle, and our perception says that we feel the same thing, but the pain I feel may be thousands of times more intense than yours.

Originally Posted by Reality_is_a_Dream

But what I call a "Sting", you may call a tickle, and our perception says that we feel the same thing, but the pain I feel may be thousands of times more intense than yours.

Eh i guess, but doesnt hurt to try and describe

Dream pain feels like more of a discomfort to me than a real pain. There is also the fear of the pain, which seems to be there whether I'm lucid or not. Like when the doctor is about to put the needle in your vein to draw blood. You know it is not really going to hurt that much, but you still flinch. It is like the anticipation hurts more than the actual pain.

Then again, I've felt real pain in real life that is so terrible, it is impossible to remember accurately. It is like your mind is not able to hold onto that horrible painful feeling, so you don't form any memories of it.

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

There is also the fear of the pain, which seems to be there whether I'm lucid or not.

Ugh, and that is one crappy way to lose lucidity... to panic in such a situation

Can't remember the last time I felt pain in dreams. I feel soreness a lot when I'm running, it's actually a dream sign for me.

You only feel pain is you stop to focus on it. If there is something more pressing to distract your attention, you won't feel a thing. It's like little kids playing. A kid can hurt himself badly, but if he's having fun at what he's playing, he'll shake it off and jump back in the game. But if his parents make a big deal out of it and draw attention to his injury, he'll start to cry.

The more attention you give something, the more real it becomes. That is true of dreams or real life.