Reality Shifter

Have you ever felt physical pain while in a dream? Many people have the luxury of never experiencing pain in their dreams. Unfortunately, I’m not one of those people. I feel pain in my dreams just as vividly as I feel it in waking life. Some people use the lack of physical pain as a trigger for lucidity; if they are injured and suddenly realize they are not feeling any pain, they recognize they are dreaming.

Have you ever been injured in a dream and woken later to find yourself experiencing pain in the same part of your body that was hurt in the dream? Or how about the reverse — have you ever injured yourself in waking life only to have the pain seep into your dreams?

In my own experience, physical pain is fully capable of crossing the border between waking and dreaming. I recently injured my foot and a few days later dreamed of hobbling along a wooded path, stumbling a few times due to pain in that same foot. In my dream, the pain in my foot felt just as intense as the pain I was feeling while awake.

It provided an opportunity for lucidity because I paused long enough to wonder …read more about how physical pain finds its way into our dreams

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