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Physical pain in Lucid dreaming?

xHippiexchildx

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Has anyone ever experienced this before?

I'm not new to Lucid dreaming. As a matter of fact, you can check my threads in the trip reports section on this subject. Some nights i'll combine various pharms in order to make my dreams more real and controllable. This has worked out well so far. The worst thing that has happened to me during these dreams is death, at which point I wake up automatically.

Last night however I experienced something I never though possible during dreams.. pain. Actual, physical, pain. How is this possible? I remember getting my wrist cut somehow, and it bleeding profusely. It hurt like fucking hell! I woke up shortly after this and found out it wasn't real. I rubbed the spot on my wrist where I had got cut in the dream. It felt funny. I can't explain it. This has got me thinking if I should venture again into the dreamworld i've been putting myself into.

Please tell me what the fuck happened last night. :?
 
I have experienced this through out my whole life from child hood. So to me feeling pain in dreams from time to time is normal.
 
I myself am a lucid dreamer. It can be an outlet or a fantasy engine. Pain associated with dreaming is quite common. It resonates with many studies. For example, some people can even feel pain while watching a video of someone else being hurt. Not a problem, very common. The thing is, if your dreams are
fully lucid, and depending on what level of lucid dreamer you are - that should be controllable as well. In other words if you continue to cultivate
your lucid dreaming, you should be able to logically blank out any pain. Have fun.
 
I am quite the dreamer too. Used to have a lotta lucid dreams, when I worked at having them all the time, no joke. I also get LOTS of sleep paralysis, and false awakenings. I mean I might've set the record for most frequent occurrences of both of those (lots. i had a bout of sleep paralysis the other week) Needless to say sleeping for me is quite the experience....

Anywho, yes I've experienced pain in dreams. Not just lucid dreams, but regular ones as well. I'll never forget one time my arm was getting wrecked in my dream, it got like crushed by a car or something and was in a TON of pain. When I woke up it turned out i'd been laying uncomfortably on same arm, and the slight pain/discomfort I was feeling now that I was awake had been amplified by the dream. I thought that was pretty crazy.
 
DooMMooD said:
I am quite the dreamer too. Used to have a lotta lucid dreams, when I worked at having them all the time, no joke. I also get LOTS of sleep paralysis, and false awakenings. I mean I might've set the record for most frequent occurrences of both of those (lots. i had a bout of sleep paralysis the other week) Needless to say sleeping for me is quite the experience....

Anywho, yes I've experienced pain in dreams. Not just lucid dreams, but regular ones as well. I'll never forget one time my arm was getting wrecked in my dream, it got like crushed by a car or something and was in a TON of pain. When I woke up it turned out i'd been laying uncomfortably on same arm, and the slight pain/discomfort I was feeling now that I was awake had been amplified by the dream. I thought that was pretty crazy.
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False awakenings used to happen to me when I first started lucid dreaming. Sleep paralysis hasn't happened to me in many many years.

I got a question, have any major studies been done on lucid dreaming? I would like to know more about this.
 
I have had these experience..I have felt stabbings, gun shots to the head and other body parts, other crazy stuff..also pain like minor incident like yours on your wrist I have felt it feels very quick, and wakes
me up most of the time. I have very lucid dreams sober. I believe pharms. effect neg. to your dreams
long term just MO. Have fun..Does anyone believe in being in a different physical place, but dreaming. As like hydroprojection or some word once was used I've heard it before, but never believed it.
 
xHippiexchildx said:
False awakenings used to happen to me when I first started lucid dreaming. Sleep paralysis hasn't happened to me in many many years.

I got a question, have any major studies been done on lucid dreaming? I would like to know more about this.
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i doubt there will ever be a "major" study given the extremely subjective experiences (wouldn't make for good data), but Dr. Stephen LaBerge a prominent researcher on the subject, he even conducted an experiment with an experienced oneironaut who was able to send a pre-arranged communication from a sleeping state. he has a book "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming", great read.
 
A new twist on lucid dreaming

The Most Bizarre phenomenon regarding my lucid dreaming has occurred recently. Most of the time when I lucid dream, I create havoc, terrify folks, destroy property, shake down the women folk. Keep in mind that I am an extremely peaceful person in real life. And hey, its my dream, right? It being lucid I am perfectly aware that I’m laying in my bed in rural Virginia. So perhaps my behavior in these dreams is an outlet, after all I couldn’t possibly be hurting anyone. Not so fast. Over the past year characters in these lucid dreams have been warning me about my behavior, basically shrieving me of my sins. Just recently in a dream where my behavior was particularly bad, I was accosted. A police like force of about 5 guys grabbed me, I guess we could call them the dream police. I no longer had full control of my “lucid powers”, and basically could not move freely about my dream as normal. I was informed by characters in the dream that the lucid state that I normally go to was a “shared dream space” and indeed there was some sort of suffering as result of my actions. There was some talk of a "dream space master", named Richard by the way, who administered that space and it was he who finally put the tag on me. It freaked me a little bit, because the message was more real than the dream itself. As a result I have rethought my place in lucid dreaming. I figure it would be much more interesting and rewarding to interact in a peaceful, civil manner with those dream characters. Destruction was getting boring anyway. There’s a lot more details than I am describing. And don’t try it, I’ve already started the creative rights on the idea for the books and media. In addition, I do think Pharms can have a great impact on your dreaming, even says so on the side effects of certain drugs. Not sure but I think Neurontin has an effect on mine, spawning more lucid states. I take it occasionally for pain. I've been on some anti-depressants or bi-polar meds in the past, cant remember which, that caused dream states so real that they breached reality. While they were quite exhilarating, it was too much at times, I became exhausted and it didn't feel like good sleep. So I had to stop taking them. My current level of lucid dreaming clearly has one foot in the dream, the other right there in my bedroom. I have recently been able to describe, tho mumbling, to my wife, what is going on. Trying to do that can take me out of the dream, so its not a fully cultivated skill. Cheers.
 
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I know i've had Astral projection happen to me right before I fall asleep. Has that happened to anyone here? I used to abuse dissociatives like crazy, so Astral projection doesn't bother me.
 
Thats the first time you've felt pain in LDs? During my lucid rampages I regularly assault dream characters and every now and again they pull a knife on me. My reflex is to grab the blade when they go to stab me and its pretty horrible. Feels just as painful as being cut in real life. Getting stabbed is pretty horrible too. I regularly feel pain in LDs. Pain kicks LDs up a notch. When you get in a fight with a DC, you actually can get hurt which makes it pretty intense. Its better like that, makes things more fun.

EDIT: I get sleep paralysis all the time too and I never feel pain in it. I feel things jabbing me in the back and biting my hands but the worst I feel is aggitation, never pain.
 
Cool thread, but shouldn't really be in OD.

I get sleep paralysis often. In that I'm conscious, but can't move any body parts. It's painful and feels like you cant breathe. It's actually quite scary. I usually try to scream, but just comes out as moans so I told my wife, to move my arm if she notices.
 
lazylazyjoe said:
Cool thread, but shouldn't really be in OD.

I get sleep paralysis often. In that I'm conscious, but can't move any body parts. It's painful and feels like you cant breathe. It's actually quite scary. I usually try to scream, but just comes out as moans so I told my wife, to move my arm if she notices.
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I've heard using the name Jesus Christ during stuff such as this automatically snaps you out of it.. Go look into it. Same thing works for Alien Abductions.
 
i have extraordinarily realistic dreams sometimes, and i have experienced every sensation in them you can think of. pain, taste, smell, intense sadness, joy, etc...

the ones that throw me off the most are ones where i do something normal like make a doctors appointment or have a normal conversation with a friend...and then have to puzzle out whether or not it actually happened.
 
Orrrr, have a dream about holding something in your hand, and then waking up still thinking you have whatever it is in your hand. Shit like that is annoying.
 
This has actually been studyed. I call it mind fucking. Your basickly convinsing yourself to hurt your self. This can happen under extremy influence of acid if your in hypnosis. They will put a ice qube on your arm and tell you its a burning pice of coal and the test person will actually yell that hot take it away take it away please.

Gosh I have read allot about this but still know so little. Did you know it is actually possible to leave physical marks. Like after putting this person though hynosis he had a burn mark on his harm.
 
Hypnosis is something I've always been curious about. I would ask my addiction psychiatrist to perform this on me, but in my thinking he will try and get my deepest darkest secrets out of me which I can never allow... EVER
 
Either way, I don't trust anyone that much to be put under like that. 8)

I'm sure i'm not alone when I say this. All of you have secrets here you wouldn't want anyone to know, right?
 
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