But why do some people have such vivid dreams, including those in which they experience pain, and others hardly remember dreaming at all? Wamsley says no one knows exactly why some dreams are more vivid than others but there are some factors that influence the dream experience, including time of night, sleep stage, and sleep history.
Dreams later in the night, more toward morning, and those during rapid eye movement REM sleep tend to be more vivid. Dreams during recovery sleep following a period of sleep deprivation can also be especially intense. For me, the recurring experience of feeling pain during my nightmares which sometimes carries over after I wake up has created a sense of anxiety and dread. There are nights when my mind races and I feel a tightness in my chest.
Ever wake up from a nightmare and your heart is racing or you're sweating? The pain I feel when I hit the floor in my dream is extremely intense and very lifelike. It starts as an agonizing impact and continues to throb until I wake up in complete distress. Sometimes, I can still feel the throbbing sensation in my forehead for about a half hour after I wake up. The mental anguish of experiencing an attack and the confusion of sustaining a dream injury that persists upon waking is more upsetting than the pain itself.
Cognitive behavioral therapy CBT , a common type of talk therapy, has shown promising results in treating chronic nightmares, Baird says. For example, imagery rehearsal therapy IRT , a cognitive-behavioral treatment in which you reimagine your nightmares with different, less frightening outcomes, can alleviate various forms of nightmares and associated distress. Interestingly, the percentage of pain dreams is higher if specific rating scales asking for pain sensations were provided after the dream was recorded: 7.
A retrospective questionnaire study [ 20 ] in patients with burn injuries yielded similar results. To summarize, the research thus far has demonstrated that actual pain during sleep can be a stimulus incorporated into the dream scenario. Secondly, it seems plausible that pain dreams might also occur without a pain stimulus during sleep, i. The present study investigated the prevalence of pain dreams and the emotional tone of dreams in patients with chronic pain compared to healthy controls.
Due to the continuity hypothesis which states that dreams reflect waking life [ 22 ] and the possibility of pain during sleep can cause pain dreams, we expected that patients with chronic pain would report pain dreams more often; and more often that the pain would persist after waking up.
In addition, it was expected that dream emotions in the patient group were more negative compared to controls, as the chronic pain disorder causes significant distress during the day.
The participants were asked if they ever had experienced bodily pain within a dream. And if so, they should record the most recent pain dream as completely as possible. If pain dreams were remembered, the participants should estimate the percentage of pain dreams with regard to all remembered dreams and whether the pain experienced in the dream was similar to pain experienced in the waking state.
In addition, they were asked whether the pain experienced in the dream was still present after waking up. The SF Health survey [ 25 ] encompasses 12 items about general health, bodily pain, physical functioning, mental health, vitality, and social functioning. Using regression equations, all twelve items were included in computing the Physical Health Score and the Mental Health Score.
The study was approved by the local ethics committee of the University of Frankfurt. Overall, patients 63 women, 37 men who were treated for chronic lower back pain in the outpatient department of the Anesthesia Clinic, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Frankfurt, were included in the study.
The typical pathologies were degenerative processes of the spinal disks, malformation of the lumbar spine, or pain after disc surgery. Only patients with chronic pain more than six months were included. Patients with a history of a tumor disease were excluded. Similarly, patients with acute pain conditions in addition to their chronic pain were also excluded. The mean age of the sample was All patients were on medication; with only few exceptions on some form of opioid.
The control sample consisted of persons women, 94 men. About half of the participants were psychology students, the other participants were recruited within the social network of the second author. The mean age of the control sample was Persons with chronic pain were not included. Statistical procedures were carried out with the SAS 9. Ordinal regressions cumulative logit analyses were used for analyzing the effect of different predictors on dream variables.
For the interval scales, percentage of pain dreams, parametric regression analyses have been computed. The distributions for the dream recall frequency scale for the patient sample and the control sample are depicted in Table 1.
The ordinal regression analysis indicated that there was a significant group difference standardized estimate:. Patients reported more negatively toned dreams compared to the healthy controls standardized estimate: -. If the two scores of the SF were also introduced, the group factor was no longer significant whereas mental health and physical health were independently related to more positive dream emotions see Table 2 , i.
This group difference is significant standardized estimate:. In addition to the group difference, older persons tended to report pain dreams less often, and persons with higher dream recall were more likely to report pain dreams. Of the 16 patients who reported that they had pain dreams, four patients were not able to recall a specific pain dream.
If pain dreams were remembered, the percentage of pain dreams with regard to all remembered dreams was much higher in patients with chronic back pain compared to controls: The estimates regarding quality of pain experienced in the dream are shown in Table 4.
Most pain experiences were rated as similar to waking life, the reason for stating a difference was most often a different location compared to waking pain.
Overall, the findings showed that patients with chronic back pain reported pain dreams more often than controls thereby indicating that pain sensations are part of the virtual dream world. In patients, it seems likely that actual pain is the instigator of pain sensations in dreams pain persisted upon awakening but for controls it might be more often pain memories. Moreover, dream emotions were more negative in patients compared to controls, mainly due to their impaired mental and physical health.
One explanation might be a selection bias, i. The data of Table 1 , however, indicate a large variance in dream recall in the patient sample, i. Another plausible explanation might be that dream recall frequency is increased in these patients because negatively toned dreams, especially nightmares, are more easily remembered than neutral dreams [ 26 ]; supported by the negative correlation between dream emotions and dream recall frequency.
Another possible factor that might have increased dream recall frequency are nocturnal awakenings due to pain; this variable was not elicited in the present study but previous research [ 27 ] showed that, for example, the heightened dream recall in insomnia patients compared to healthy controls was explained by their higher frequency of nocturnal awakenings. In this first study of pain dreams in a clinical population of chronic pain patients, a relatively simple questionnaire was used to elicit the occurrence of pain dreams.
In order to obtain information closer to the actual event remembering a dream, persistence of dream pain into waking , it would be very interesting to use dream diaries in this patient group including measures of pain intensity during the day. Using more sophisticated methods, like REM awakenings in the sleep laboratory do not seem to be practical as pain dream frequency is relatively low.
On the other hand, that would be the only approach to differentiate between thoughts during nocturnal periods of wakefulness and REM or NREM dreaming — although previous studies in patients with sleep disorders [ 28 ] indicate that most persons can differentiate between these two phenomena.
Even though pain dream frequency was higher in the patient sample compared to the control sample — and, thus, supporting the continuity hypothesis of dreaming [ 22 ] — it should be noted that the majority of chronic back pain patients did not report pain dreams.
The simplest explanation is, of course, dream recall itself: we found a significant effect of dream recall frequency on reporting pain dreams. One feasible option would be to use dream diaries because it has been shown that keeping a dream diary can increase dream recall frequency, especially in low dream recallers [ 29 ].
Another factor that might play a role is novelty: we studied chronic patients experiencing pain for at least six months. In sleep apnea patients, for example, the severe physiological changes due to oxygen desaturations during sleep scarcely affect dream content [ 30 ]. In order to test this hypothesis, it would be interesting to carry out longitudinal studies — if possible as close to the onset of pain as possible.
Despite the much higher percentage of pain dreams, Raymond et al. Some evidence for that hypothesis is also provided by the present data as some pain dreams included nightmarish themes like being chased or falling. Since the study of Nielsen et al. These results then could be compared to stimulation studies using other sensory modalities like sound, touch, or smell [ 11 ]. For patients with chronic back pain, the most likely cause of their pain dreams is actual pain because a high number of patients stating that pain persisted after waking.
On the other hand, a significant number of healthy persons stated no persistence of the dreamed pain into the waking state, i. To elucidate this hypothesis, it would be very interesting to study persons with periodic pain, e. Interestingly, the dreams before waking up with a migraine attack are characterized by more anger and aggressive interactions [ 31 ] compared to awakenings without migraine but pain dreams have never been studied in that population. It would also be very interesting to study the hypothesis that dreams can not only reflect pain experienced by the dreamer in his or her waking life but might also reflect situations in which the person has seen another person in pain in real-life or via media.
Patients with chronic back pain reported more negatively toned dreams compared to the control group. One might speculate whether this might be related to possible side effects of pain medication, However, the difference could be explained by lower mental health and lower physical health and, thus, render a simple pharmacological effects of opioids unlikely.
I'm not sure if it's normal, but I've gotten to the point of sleeping with music on or lights when I'm home alone. I have just had a real pain dream, one which I hope to not repeat. Safety note here, I am a partially lucid dreamer, so many of my dreams feature a partial awareness of what is going on.
In this particular dream, the pain portion featured me needing to crack my shoulder and neck, which was quite painful each time it happened.
When my neck popped I would partly wake up and then fall back into deeper sleep and the dream would continue, until another pop occurred. After a number of these, I finally was able to wake up, and my neck and shoulder was indeed quite sore, as happens sometimes if I have to crack my neck multiple times.
In fact, it was still tight, and I popped it several more times before a final, really painful, crack was enough to loosen it up and allow me to sleep again. This was such an unusual dream because I had never felt pain in a dream before, and I hope not to experience it again, that I resolved to look it up when I woke up fully, and came across your interesting article!
Last night I dreamt of a motorcycle accident where I fall of the bike in my dream and hit the left side of the back of my head closer to my neck but stand up and walk to the side walk and sit there.
But as people start gathering, I realize there has been an internal injury as there is a severe stabbing pain at the area where I hit my head and start feeling dizzy due to internal bleeding atleast that's what I think in the dream.
The pain woke me up but the strangest part is that I had severe pain in the same area even after waking up and felt dizzy for about minutes. I even started crying holding my head as if i was in a real accident and my mom was so confused as to what was happening. This is the strangest thing i have ever experienced. I got off the bed when i felt a little stable and then the pain gradually went away.
Dint feel it all day after that. I hope I never have this experience again, freaked me out! I had is odd dream I was talking to a friend and she was crying because a boy broke her heart and then I started crying aswell not only because I felt her pain but as well as my own so I drop her off at her class then a friend comes up behind me I run into his arms and start crying when he asks me what's wrong I say my entire body hurts and then and only then do i realize my entire body is in excruciating pain I lean against the wall and my teacher is staring at me from her classroom looking almost mad at me I wake up due to the pain right after.
I had is odd dream I was talking to a friend and she was crying because a boy broke her heart and then I started crying aswell not only because I felt her pain but as well as my own then a friend comes up behind me I run into his arms and start crying when he asks me what's wrong I say my entire body hurts and then and only then do i realize my entire body is in excruciating pain I lean against the wall and my teacher is staring at me from her classroom looking almost mad at me.
Just now I have 'woken' from what I assume was a dream. However I was very aware I was dreaming even though I was dreaming of my bedroom. In this 'dream' I found myself paralysed. I refused to open my eyes as I had scared myself into believing that there was a ghost stood on my left. And even my awareness of the 'dream' didn't allow me to wake up for several minutes.
I even found myself trying to distract myself from this 'dream' by trying to dream about other scenarios and returning to the previous dream however I would always return back to this 'dream' moments later. I am now unable to go back to sleep. I am oddly calm but know that I am scared of experiencing the paralysis again as it is a major fear of mine. I had a dream last night about getting a tattoo. The pain felt quite real but because I expected the pain it did not wake me.
It seemed normal. I have recently been having pain in my dream mostly in my stomach kind of like a butterflies feeling, or someone pressing on my stomach very hard, my dream tonight was of me getting attacked in my room by my ex strangled and I kept trying to scream and wake myself out of my dream. Until I finally did kind of going in amd out from my dream. To slowly breaking myself out of my dream, well my night terror I have PTSD and have had very vivid night terrors most of my child hood.
I've had out of body experience just sitting on my porch. I'ma very sensitive person. And I have very strange intuition I get a bad feeling before something really bad happens usually a close death. I feel on esmdge for a week or two before it happens and feel back to myself after it happens even if I don't no it has happened yet if that makes since. I've just started having dreams again if that matters and I have been told I have peripheral neopathy.
And every time I go to the hospital I have to get potassium and magnesium replaced because it's way to low. I also was told I have to much lactic acidosis in my blood.
Maybe it's a sign I will die who knows. If it is well then. Or maybe I'm speaking nonsense you never no though. Nothing impossible Jessica Kelly I know this is old, but I had dreams I was being shot at in the back of my legs and it felt like the worst bee stings.
I also had a dream I couldn't wake from, todat actually. I dreamt that my husband was leaving, but would not talk to me or tell me why. My chest felt tight, I couldnt breathe, and I was trying to slap him in my dream, but I couldnt. It felt like I was in slow motion when I tried to run or slap him.
I was upset and I couldnt talk. It was like I was wanting to talk, but my voice wasnt working. Ive had similar dreams where I couldnt talk or breathe or hit someone. Some dreams I wake up and can not control my sobbing right away. It feels so real and like there's nothing I can do, but watch and I wake up devastated. This is very interesting because I have had dreams involving pain. Ever since I was about 9 years old now 30 I occasionally have dreams of falling from high distances and feeling pain in my dream however I'm aware that in not actually injured.
On a few occasions I dreamed of falling and felt pain to the point it jarred me awake and I could still feel the pain when I'm fully awake. The pain is never the same intensity or in the same location on my body, but I can still feel it.
It was freaking me out, but I was trying so hard not to let the horror show on my face because I was afraid she'd freak out once knowing half her face was sliced by a big shard of glass. I started to feel like my own body was covered in TONS of shards of glass just sticking out from all over my body. I began to try and pull every piece out and some cuts bled a lot more than others.
I would apply pressure to stop the bleeding of one cut until I could pull out the next piece. I was spitting out pieces of glass. It seemed like I was in some place where a bomb had gone off as all the windows were blown out.
There was glass everywhere and some people were fighting. I just wanted to get out of there and get some help. For some reason I remember telling myself in my head, "This is just a very realistic feeling virtual reality game," and while it did make me feel a tiny bit better, I was freaked out nonetheless!
I woke up and my stomach was hurting from the horrible anxiety of the nightmare. I have hated trying to fall asleep at night since I was a kid. It always gave me great anxiety because that quiet time just allowed my thoughts to roam even more. I'm almost positive I suffer from some type of vitamin or mineral deficiency as my diet is poor when my anxiety is high. Constant stomach aches from hunger, yet eating and drinking water can make it feel worse.
My stomach hasn't stopped hurting all night though I'm trying to do things that help, but feel extremely weak due to lack of energy from not being able to eat at the moment. I've never had any kind of truly traumatic incident like in my nightmare ever happen in my real life, but I am guilty of loving horror movies.
It's really the fear of my own mortality is why I feel these types of nightmares happen. If you can learn to control those feelings in your nightmares could help you to survive in a real world disaster because you can go inside yourself and control the panic, fear, and anxiety to better know how to deal with your situation without panicking in the real life situation. Hopefully that made sense.
It's very difficult to learn to control and those fear instincts and instead face the fear believing you'll be ok. I feel pain all the time in my dreams. Last night i dreamt i got bitten by a snake on my finger while i was trying to save a baby. I have felt the pain of being shot and stabbed in my dreams. I have also felt myself die and then go to another place in my dreams. I dont know where i went but its happened a few times now where i die and i feel myself going somehwere beyond here.
I always see a beach. I remember it all very clearly when i wake up and the last time it happened my paetner told me i breathing very funny as in holding my breath while deep asleep. Can anyone explain my nightmares please. I have nightmares every night. I sleep very little now because of what i see and feel in them.
My first dream I had was when i was like on a bus like I was going to jail or something and I was handcuffed but not with handcuffs. It was a rope that every time I struggled it would burn my wrists. What is it called? Pain in dreams manifested in real-time? Or is it the opposite? I have been suffering from back pain for 20 years and have occasionally had dreams with horrific back pain only to wake to the same pain.
Only this morning I woke up with an awful headachewhich I never get, took a couple of painkillers and eventually slept with a dream of horribly agonizing headache.
No doubt in this case my conscious pain had some effect on my dream, but the opposite??? I would love to know if the back pain I have caused the dreams and the pain in my dreams is ALWAYS more intense than in reality or does my sub-conscious create the dream which creates the real-time pain. I have had a dream I was being beaten up and spitting out teeth only to wake up feeling beat and actually spitting teeth and blood! Went to the hospital where I was accused of fabricating the experience only to be apologised to when it was found I had a severe seizure and broke my teeth the only thing I'm wondering is did the seizure cause the dream or did the dream cause a seizure?
I have read most of these comments, and something has left me concerned. I recently had a dream where I insulted what I imagined to be an alien, and I had the most excruciating pain in my head, and it was quite possibly the most intense pain I have ever experienced, and when I woke up I was fine. My dream is different because in my dream some stranger will hurt me like my earlier dream the stranger pulled my teeth out of my mouth and the pain wakes me up.
So can really your dream hurt you in real. Becuase this is not the only time that this stranger tries to torture me. Last time the stranger burn my hand and when I wake up my hand is hot and it really hurts I even put my hand on the water to relieve the pain of being burn.
Some explain whats happening to me. When I was 10 I think I had a dream where I was disagreeing with a girl in my class named Leticia about what she was calling into it the writing paper and I didn't agree with her anyways there was a let's say more developed girl in my class named anaclaria standing by Leticia and suddenly she elbowed me as hard as she could a right before I woke up she said "Im sorry! Some really brutal dreams, especially the ones about teeth, because they involve real pain upon awakening.
One question for Anonymous of February 09, AM -- how often do you have seizures, and have they been diagnosed as a specific type? Have you ever seen a doctor for this? This may be a little different. What about feeling the pain upon awaking. My daughter had a dream she was being stabbed in the stomach as she grabbed her stomach in the dream and yelling out she was still holding her stomach and could feel the pain as she woke up.
I also had a crazy dream everyone i knew was chopping my body into piece and i can feel the blade go into every slide it felt so real i thought it was real my girlfriend was the last one who chopped off my head. I woke up i didn't move i was scared, my face was fill with tears and im kinda scared to fall back asleep. I had many weird dreams before but i haven't been dreaming much lately and if i had i don't remember. Today dream freak me out I been up since 3 and don't plan to fall asleep its 5 now.
I just had this horrible nightmare about a "top twelve hauntings" video being made for youtube, what actually happened was my laptop was haunted, and I went into the room, thinking it was safe as soon as I turned the lights on. It wasn't, as soon as I lay to interact with it It was on a bed, That's how I usually use it A ghost jump scared me and I had this sudden jabbing sensation in my lower left back Presumably due to a ghost that landed me on the ground In dream only for more hauntings to happen around me.
I woke up after my dream for a little Intensely horrifying while, and I'm still feeling the remnants of that. Thing is, I'm pretty certain I wasn't sleeping on that side. About a week ago i had a dream and all i could remember from it was i was in this dark place, like a basement cellar and there was a laugh i don't know who's but it wasn't a happy one more of a evil one and then i remember grabbing my right calf which was in pain then my left one too.
Ok I'm little curious to share ma experience here. Sometimes back I had a dream but I don't remember anything I'm awake as I said feeling it pressure on my ribs I saw ma wife sleeping on the other side of our bed and we had our 1 month old son between us. I cudnt figure out what happened? I cud feel the pain even after I was fully awake for sum 15 to 30 min How can they explain about a dream when someone throw a rock on your head and it hurts in dreams?
I've once dreamt about a bag of million dollars inside it, my mom said that we would be rich if we take it home. Then,I realized it was a dream so it is definitely useless for me to take it home. I need a prove that it was a dream so I scratch myself. It felt pain. Why am I feeling pain in dreams? Am I like scratching myself during my sleep? Yesterday I had a dream about being stabbed in the centre of my chest based on the exact bedroom I was already sleeping in.
I knew the sensation wasn't real in my dream, so I woke up to shake off the feeling of having a hole in my chest. And surprise no knife in the middle of my chest, more than anything I was annoyed by the fact I had to wake up in order to stop the dream from continuing to exert a false pain across my chest. This happened to me too but instead of pain it was this gut tightening feeling almost like nervousness or shock The dream was I was swimming and I was older when I came across a guy taking pictures I asked to see some of them and he said yes it then cuts to being inside a wood cabin with a different guy who was showing me the pictures when he accidentally scrolled to a video.
I noticed at the beginning it was a 2nd grade version of me and I asked to see the video. He stood up and I asked if his name was aiden and right afterwards he disappeared and changed into a different person. I have many dreams,in my dream am in a dark room i feel frightened and i walked i saw a door it was dark too i walked towards it i heard a noise and some thing hit me hard in my stomach and testis i woke up.. I had a dream last night that I got into a fight with a Dr. Then I kept passing out the last time I came to I was missing four pieces of my finger.
No one would tell me why so I made my self pass out in a doorway. Waited to be awoke aw a Dr. My work alram wakes me up. And I still feel the pain of those four fingers. Once my friend had a dream that she fell off a bridge and when he woke up her calf was hurting and her hip was swelled and she couldn't sit up for 3 weeks. I had a dream last night of someone digging their finger nails into the palm of both my hands.
The pain woke me up instantly , and was also instantly gone. I'm a lucid dreamer and I often die in my dreams but I noticed that I'm suffering real life injury and pain from where I was hurt in my dream state.
Last night for example i was stabbed over and over and I died 3 times woke up each time feeling a dull pain where the injury adhered now it's the evening after and I still feel pain. Also dying isn't fun. I also felt serious pain in my foot during sleep that I actually got up and took a pain pill. Of course, there was no pain by the time I completely awoke, before I even got back into bed. I have similar dreams, but the pains are direct correlations to dreams for me typically on my lower back, electrical dull pain that is so painful.
I feel like im someone experiment. I just want it to stop, im constantly put in simulations of sort. Just now i experienced some man trying to rip something from the back of my neck only for me to call out to Jesus to aid me in stopping it. I just woke up from a dream. Grabbed my hand. While he was finding me he kept doing the same to other people and when he got close I woke up.
I had a dream last night that I was out with my brother and some girl, we were at her dads house. She was babbling on about something and then a snake came out of nowhere and bit both of legs on the shin.
I had a dream last night of being stabbed with an injection in my upper leg, the whole dream was dramatic, I screamed as it was stabbed and involuntary. I shouted myself awake and still felt a pain in my leg. This is the weirdest thing that happened.
I was asleep and dreaming about being in a container. Does anyone else think about a dream while they are awake and feel paralyzed for a moment. Then once the feeling of reality comes back and all your head feels is pain for a few minutes. Can anyone, has anyone been thinking of something. The thought is over, now in bed watching TV, then you have a dream about being in pain, actually from what I ate. Basically, I am asking if you are thinking of whatever is it likely or not, you may dream related to that thought.
Every now and then I will have a dream where someone presses their hand on my side. But this is like in my dreams my side side of my stomach is my complete and total weakness. Many times I know it's a dream and I fight to wake up because it's so painful. When I finally wake up it's like I can finally breathe but my body is sunk into the bed and this big weight is let off my body once I wake up.
I think of it as sleep paralysis but in my actual sleep. But I don't know if that's a thing or not. If anyone can relate or can tell me what it means or if there's a name for it email me snowflake gmail.
But my situation is quite different Than again I try to sleep the same situation occurred. I had a dream last night I was sitting down in my dream and I tried to stand up but unfortunately for me I got a bilateral thigh stiffness I couldn't stand up even with a help in my dream and when I woke I fealt serious pains in my legs and growns like a reality something.
High suger before bed causes clear night mares with pain in my case. Things like ice cream and so on. My deepest sleep is always between 6am to 10am and yes if I am cut I feel it. I must be an exception to this. I've never been shot or broken any bones in my life, though, when I dream, I can tell you that I have been shot, broken many bones, and lots of other serious injuries.
Be it falling off a building and breaking my legs or somehow being in a shoot-up and getting shot. I have felt it and it is the worst pain I have ever experienced.
I don't wake up and I have to wait until I bleed out or get saved Hospital or forcing myself out or into another dream. If there is any explanation or somewhere to run some tests on me I would appreciate it because I have talked to so many people throughout my life and not one of them has heard of anything like this.
Thank you and I will continue to find my answer. Last night I had a dream that I had a battle with Dr. Then I continued missing my finger four pieces the last time I came. Nobody would tell me why I made a doorway for myself. I expected aroused a Dr. My alram of work wakes me up. And the pain of these four fingers I still feel read more. I have a recurring nightmare where I am in sleep paralysis and experience the most terrible pain in my testicles from something happening in the dream.
I'm not able to make it stop unless I snap myself awake. I'd compare it to torture, luckily I can now quickly identify these nightmares for what they are and wake up. I turn to a vampire any time i want to, i become a vampire because of how people treat me, this world is a wicked world and not fair to anybody. At the snack of my finger things are made to happen, am now a powerful man and no one steps on me without an apology. I turn to human beings also at any time i want to, and am one of the most dreaded men in my country.
I became a vampire through the help of my friend who introduced me into a vampire kingdom by giving me their email. I just had a dream that I was asleeep in my dream and felt an immense pain of me pushing my bottom tooth against my top canine tooth so hard it felt like it was going to rip out. I couldn't stop it because it felt like I had lock jaw. Eventually, my jaw would release. I couldn't anticipate it because it was random both in my 'conscious' state in my dream and unconscious while sleeping in my dream.
I believe that I am having the same experience as you. Certain dreams trigger it. Electrical sensation more than pain Sharp and very clear electrical sensation at the bottom of my spine. I have a question. Have you tried to meditate before? Please respond to this. This is happening repeatedly. Throughout the last 20yrs I've experienced horrific pain nightmares, rarely the same, I've been impaled in every part of my body, strangled, slashed, crushed, broken, tortured and most other things you can think of, I wake up with my heart beating out my chest and if I go back to sleep I go right back into another one, it usually happens when I'm overtired but often when I go to bed at a decent time too, it's depressing and exhausting, I wish there was something to stop it, I sometimes drink alcohol to knock me out and get a peaceful night's sleep though I know alcohol sleep isn't good sleep.
That is one of the many I have also the sensation of being poked in the kidneys to the point where it feels like I'm being impaled, it's bloody horrific. Blogger Steven; i can understand what you're going through, forcing yourself into another dream, or well person you become someone who is you and or not you at the same time, i have not been shot but i can tell you what it is like to have your stomach sliced clean across, there was a small gentlemen in a yellow rain coat telling a group of people who were fenced in a rope enclosure i was one of them, that we had to leave, so he started slicing people open, when i woke up i had this hard ribbon of ice cold skin across my abdomen where i had been "cut".
I found this site because I had an unusual experience in my dream last night. I felt real pain. Whether it is small like a paper cut or big like getting your foot ran over by a truck, the pain can be all too real even when you are asleep. According to the studies, there are two types of pain: the phantom and the real.
These participants reported feeling pain in dreams, whether from a painful dance, a situation where their arm was stuck, or fighting the cuff itself. There are some who will wake from a dream and describe a torture scene or fight scene where the pain is excruciating and unbearable. The pain is gone when the participant wakes because there was no source for physical pain in the real world. The question is still not fully understood.
It is believed that those who experience pain while they are awake are more likely to have painful dream experiences.
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