Yeah, it felt real. And yes, it was gone when I woke up, but my heart was racing and I was sweating. As to why it's rare, I"d say because when you feel anything very intense in a dream you tend to wake up; as I did. The arousal induced by the intense feeling awakens you from your slumber.
...I always feel pain. It can range from electrical sensations to a stretching feeling to actually blows being dealt to my torso.
The mind is able to reproduce many things, such as pain, so that could be an explanation for the pain.
I find that I associate things going on around me into my dreams, on a subconcious level.
For instance, I hear the alarm going off, so it is a part of my dream, but I don't realize that it is really occurring until I eventually wake up. I think that this is the cause of true physical pain in your dreams, you are in pain and so your mind makes up an image in your dreams to go along with it. Does that make any sense?
I find that I associate things going on around me into my dreams, on a subconcious level. For instance, I hear the alarm going off, so it is a part of my dream, but I don't realize that it is really occurring until I eventually wake up. I think that this is the cause of true physical pain in your dreams, you are in pain and so your mind makes up an image in your dreams to go along with it. Does that make any sense?
It's not just the pain that awakens you, it's the arousal induced by the situation you're in. So if you dream you're falling off a cliff, the arousal of that experience usually awakens you before you hit the bottom. Wh en I dreamt about being stabbed in the heart, the stab came out of nowhere. I wasn't dreaming about being in a fight. It was one of those dreams where I dreamt about lying in bed and then suddenly I was stabbed in the heart. So there was no increased arousal until I got stabbed.So you thank the reason its rare to feel intense pane in a dream is because the intense pane wakes you up... an yet... the 1 time you did feel intense pane in a dream you woke up but remenbered the pane... thats seems contradictory to you'r theory as to why feelin pane in a dream is rare.!!!
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It's not just the pain that awakens you, it's the arousal induced by the situation you're in. So if you dream you're falling off a cliff, the arousal of that experience usually awakens you before you hit the bottom. Wh en I dreamt about being stabbed in the heart, the stab came out of nowhere. I wasn't dreaming about being in a fight. It was one of those dreams where I dreamt about lying in bed and then suddenly I was stabbed in the heart. So there was no increased arousal until I got stabbed.
More recently I've had spider dreams (aka night terrors). I'd suddenly jump out of bed in the middle of the night convinced there was a giant spider crawling around somewhere. One time I was so agitated I jumped out of bed and threw my nightstand (which is pretty heavy) across the room. I do this all while still asleep and wake up feeling stupid and confused.you'r lucky the dream pane only hapened that 1 time.!!!
More recently I've had spider dreams (aka night terrors). I'd suddenly jump out of bed in the middle of the night convinced there was a giant spider crawling around somewhere. One time I was so agitated I jumped out of bed and threw my nightstand (which is pretty heavy) across the room. I do this all while still asleep and wake up feeling stupid and confused.
Fortunately, I've not had one of those episodes for a couple years.
I believe the "falling" in a dream means that you feel hopeless in some aspect of your life. Anything with water is usually an indicator that your pregnant/ or someone close to you is pregnant Dont know about the getting shot dream. Ill look it up when I get home.
My question is, do you feel the pain in your dream? Or when you wake up? If its in your dream, its all in your mind. Just like when your being chased, you feel really scared and wake up in a cold sweat. Your mind is tricking you to feel the pain.
I don't know that it is really possible to have pain from simply dreaming.
I think the closest thing to something like pain from a dream that I have ever experienced would be waking up with tears. It happens from time to time, but I can't say that I've ever had a painful dream per se.
i have nightmares almost every night, and in these nightmares i usually die in several different ways. sounds weird, but one night i get shot, the next i fall from a building, then i drown.
the weird thing is, it all seems so real! i even feel pain! and that's REAL pain weird enough..
does anyone recognize this?
Ive been having the same dream in which i feel pain. the same thing everytime but it always ends different. ill be doing some everyday thing and ill look up in the sky and there looks to be sparkles around the sun but they start to get closer. well to make it short, the sun explodes and everything incenerates and i feel myself start to catch on fire and i cant breathe. very intense. i now know how the world is going to end