Thread: Can you get hurt in a LD?

Yes I have experienced real pain and it does in fact hurt.

The pain is real, because pain is created by your mind to warn you about an injury, but there is actually no injury. So you can't physicaly get harmed, but you can feel pain.

Does this mean you are actually still limited in what you can do? Like if somebody shoots you, it'll hurt like they shot you? What if you told your brain that getting shot doesn't hurt. Would it still hurt?

Originally Posted by Truffles

Does this mean you are actually still limited in what you can do? Like if somebody shoots you, it'll hurt like they shot you? What if you told your brain that getting shot doesn't hurt. Would it still hurt?

Sometimes things hurt sometimes it doesnt.

Originally Posted by Truffles

Does this mean you are actually still limited in what you can do? Like if somebody shoots you, it'll hurt like they shot you? What if you told your brain that getting shot doesn't hurt. Would it still hurt?

If you make your self believe it wont hurt, then it wont. When you wake up, usually when you notice you are not injured it will stop hurting. Also, sometimes you don't get hurt.

Hi! i've heard that if you die in your dream... you can die in real life too... is this true, or is it just a silly theory?! :p

silly theory^^

Yeah, chemical burn, it really hurt!

Completely safe. The worst that could happen is wetting your bed (It unfortunately happened to me once when I pissed in a dream toilet).

Hell yeah you can get hurt!

HEY IM BACK!

Ive had hundreds of dreams where i have experienced pain it can be so bad it ruins the dream turning it into a nightmare i usually wake up with a slight tingling in my back which goes away after 2 minutes or so

I usually tingle in the area where I got hurt...

When I get shot in dreams, I usually tingle a bit as well.

Pain is a very interesting concept. We used to talk about in my psychology class how people who had amputations could still feel pain in a part of their body that wasn't there.

What they said before, pain is all in the mind. I can verify this becuase I hate shots...and the one time that I took a shot without knowing it, I didn't feel a thing. But the 20+ other times, when I did notice, you better belive I felt it.

But back to dreams...I have never been physically harmed per se, but I have def. felt "pressure" before in certain areas of the body. Nothing to bad though, as pain in a dream can quite easily be the least of your worries with a LD or two.

Originally Posted by Lactating Billhonkey

Completely safe. The worst that could happen is wetting your bed (It unfortunately happened to me once when I pissed in a dream toilet).

Classic.

Originally Posted by Mouta

Hi! i've heard that if you die in your dream... you can die in real life too... is this true, or is it just a silly theory?! :p

this is an urban legend i was just about to comment about.
people probably got the idea from the matrix...
'if you die in a dream the brain thinks you are dead so it stops working' stuff like that. nonsense.

I remember having a vivid normal dream a while ago where i was about to get shot. I braced myself and he shot me !

I diddnt feal pain at all, just a tingling feeling

Quick question thats slightly related. If you feel "pain" in lds does that make RCs like pinching yourself or biting your lip pointless?

Originally Posted by Luc

Quick question thats slightly related. If you feel "pain" in lds does that make RCs like pinching yourself or biting your lip pointless?

in a sense, yes, i'd assume.

One thing i absoulotely hate in dreams is drowning, often when im under water (in the dream) i hold my breath in real life causing me to suffercate in the dream but somtimes i can brethe underwater in the dreams which is good fun