Pain in LDs

[Namine]

@Atheist

I think this is more likely a case of real-world pain affecting the dream, rather than vice-versa. Perhaps your back was sore because you were sleeping in an unnatural position, and that physical distress transferred to the dream in the form of a rock hitting you.

You know, that sounds very reasonable. Seems like a perfect explanation to me.

But then again…you never really know what’s behind dreaming. Still, that ^^^ sounds logical

               ~Namine<3

[mattias]

One thing I’ve always wondered is…can sleep paralysis “stop working” in the middle of a LD? So that for example, if in a LD you, just to try it out, knock your head against the wall really hard, can you real body do it to, and so you wake up with a semi-smashed head? XD
Because I guess that’s a bit what happens to sleepwalkers, right, that their sleep paralysis fails them, so they do what they’re doing in their dreams? Could that happen when you LD? Scary though.

From what I’ve read (which isn’t that much actually…) sleep walking is not someone living out the dream. Sleep walking actually ocurrs in deep sleep, so no SP. Not sure HOW sleep walking works, though.

[Supasonic78]

I wasn’t in a LD, but once, I was stabbed, and the shock of it in the dream woke me up and I could almost feel the pain where I was stabbed, but no physical harm was done.

[Brownman]

Once, I went lucid and in excitement I tripped. It hurt

[Synneth_Relmn]

I regularly experience pain in LDs, or any type of dream for that manner. Usually it doesn’t carry over into waking life, but I’ve had it happen before. In one particular dream, I was in a car driving down the highway when it crashed. I blacked out and felt a horrible, agonizing burning sensation all over my body. After about 5 seconds I woke up, but I still felt some burning pain in my chest for about another 10 minutes. Needless to say, I didn’t get much more sleep that night.