Comments on: How Physical Pain Finds Its Way Into Our Dreams

By: Evz

Evz — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:16:38 +0000

I've had dreams were for some reason CHIMPANNZEES hurt me. The only time I feel pain in my dreams in when there are chimps in the dream. This one time a big chimp got a chair and hit me multiple times in the back and when i woke, that same area had a ticklish pressure feeling and it was still moving or twitching.(twas so annoying)the most uncomfortable feeling EVER!
Then the next time i was dreaming there were about four chimps with me on top of a car or something, then one of them reached down to grab something and ALL OF A SUDDEN i wake and feel someone grabbing the lower part of mai left ribs( the spot where someone would tickle you) and i felt the same kind of ticklish pressure there.AGAIN VERY UNCOMFORTABLE!!! -.-

By: frimann

frimann — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:27:20 +0000

well last night I had a very odd dream to me, I was in some kind of war and in this one part a very large tank is in front of me and several of the other solders i was with where saying get to the tank for cover. it was odd because i knew what was going on in my dream as if real life, it was so vivid like a memory. but any way as im hiding in this extremely massive tank a nuke is detonated to my left and i feel the heat from it, as if my entire left side of my body is being burned. weird to me because it was my first time feeling something in a dream waking up and nothing wrong with me at all.

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 21:17:26 +0000

I've had painful, lucid dreams for the last 18-20yrs. I knew i was dreaming but still, to this day, no matter how hard i try, i cannot control them.
To try and describe the pain, ranging from just lower ribs to full body, would not do it justice. Deep, ripping pain to sharp searing pain (especially pack of dogs), over the years i've learned how to fly with top marks.
For the last 5 yrs i can wake myself up with certain methods. . . the pain carries on in those places for at least 3-4 seconds after!!!! Its getting worse. Getting pretty sick of it. Too embarrassed to go to the doctors.

I also know im going to have a nightmare when my dreaming suddenly becomes darker and just walls, no windows, nowhere to go.

By: Yaz

Yaz — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 06:27:53 +0000

I had a dream once when I was smaller. At the time I was a afraid of dogs (not anymore, I have one as a pet!) So, I was at a pet store with one of my friends' mom, and we were looking at animals to buy. For some reason, I only cared about this one dog and a cat. I looked at the dog first. Perfectly calm, sitting with its chest out. It was something like a big grey bulldog-ish thing, like the one in Tom and Jerry. But no. I was scared of dogs, so we moved on and looked at the cat. The cat was fine, and I said, "Okay, let's get this one," and then it scratched me on my right forearm. I grasped my arm in the dream for about 2 seconds before waking up. I thought the pain would go away when I woke, but it didn't! I was like, 7, and I thought I was going crazy!!! It hurt, yes, but the shock of feeling pain from a dream in reality kind of outdid the pain after a minute. I started slapping my arm, pinching it, trying to make sure it really was still painful. I was awake for sure, and there was no scratch or blood. Never had any sort of pain dream since then (only 5 or 6 years though, still have PLENTY of time.) It was so weird... I'm glad I'm not alone and I'm not going crazy!!!

By: shortcake

shortcake — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 05:10:59 +0000

looked in to lucid dreaming and many similar things and never really got in to them, but i have for my whole life been able to feel pain in my dreams with some fairly traumatic memories not even being real.

By: cupcake

cupcake — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:11:51 +0000

I'm 20 years old and have been really bothered by my dreams for the past year. First of all, though they are very vivid and realistic, I still know that it is only a dream. However, I can't wake myself up. I have figured out that the only way for me to get out of a dream is to die. I can fly in my dreams and escape for a little while,but whatever is after me eventually gets me. Unfortunately, I feel pain and dying is usually very painful. I've tried moving and screaming, sometimes just with the mad hope that I will wake my boyfriend up and he will be able to get me awake, but from what I've read sleep paralysis is pretty common. Anyone have any ideas on how to make this stop? I experience these dreams several times a week, and its wearing me out!

By: Mason

Mason — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:59:51 +0000

I fall off cliffs and feel the impact, fire engulfs me and I feel the burn. Posionous things and monsters bite me and I feel the flesh decaying and sting from the poison. My dreams are wierd as other people I know don't ever feel pain when they sleep. I've fell from high places and been burned by welding and experienced being stung by wasps but never were those painful, just annoying. I am a sleep walker and fighter and talker. does that have anything to do with this abnormality.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:22:01 +0000

I was just looking up 'pain in dreams' because I woke up from a nightmare this morning and the pain in my chest was killing me. In the dream I had both been impaled and shot in the chest. (I don't know how that came about but I digress.) I woke up to a heaviness in my chest, and painful sensations around the area where I was 'shot' in my upper left chest, like the feeling of blood filling my chest cavity. I'm 18 so I am just reasearching to make sure it's not something I need to bring up at my next GP appointment.

By: Optimouse

Optimouse — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:52:28 +0000

That's an interesting subject.

I remember the times when I am chased by a monster or something in a dream and when it grabs me I feel something like a numb pain, but it's not like real pain, it's more like an unconfortable feeling, like when someone tries to squeeze me or tickle me. I thought it was an interpretation in my brain, but not real pain, just a lesser unconfortable squeeze.

It puzzles me, is there pain that is exactly real like in real life?

There is a possibility you can almost induce feelings of this sensation, not exactly real pain, when you are awake. When you focus on some part of your body and think too much of it or when you look at a sharp object and you are scared of it pinching your eye. You get fixated, there is annoyance, but not real pain. But it could be possible.

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Oww.. That Hurt’s « Path to the Subconscious Mind — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:18:20 +0000

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