This morning I had the longest LD. I believe I was dreaming for almost 2 hours. I went in bed around 10:30 pm, I was listening music till 11:00 pm and then went to sleep… I repeated mantra a few times and the second thing I remember is watching on my phone what time is. It was already morning around 7:15 am, I wrote down dreams that I remembered and went back to sleep.
I knew that this is my only chance to became lucid today because I usually have a problem falling asleep at this hour and with that many hours of sleep. So I knew I need to calm down and try to relax as much as I can, and that was the problem, the most relaxing position was very bad, and I knew that this is going to cause me a problems but I just didn’t want to move any more because I could feel myself falling asleep. I had my right arm practically on my head and I knew that I will experience tingling sensation.
So I end up in a dream, at first it was a NLD but after some short time I figured out that it’s a dream and then I had a FA but I knew that and then the adventure started. But while in a dream from time to time I felt pain and tingling sensation in my right arm. When I started to focusing to much on a pain I started to lose lucidity and a few times I almost woke up, that happened maybe 5 or 6 times…
When I waked up I actually didn’t feel my arm and the pain was there, but it’s fascinating how that helped me to keep in my mind that I’m dreaming because I had constant feeling of the real body…
So I’m interested if you ever had an experience of feeling pain from waking body in your dreams?!
I’ve never received nociceptive messages from waking body in dreams but I’ve experienced hearing.
It happened during a LD in which I was driving a flying batmobile, alone, high above a dark city. At some point I started hearing voices that were very clear and couldn’t come from anywhere in my dream. I woke up and realized they were coming from outside, I could hear people talking in the street since my window was wide open. And it was not a FA because I wrote down what happened in my DJ.
I wonder if it is possible to voluntarily check you waking life senses (at least pain, touch, thermoception, hearing, smell and proprioception) from within a dream, I’ve been trying to do that regularly since this happened. If it is possible, it is extremely difficult.
I was in very strange sleeping position and I was in NLD and I started to feel pain in a dream but it was manifested in a story.
It was very interesting:
I was on my backyard and my boss came. I went to meet her and we were talking about insuring my house. As we were standing I started to feel pain in my back and I said to my boss that we should sit down, that there is no point in standing and doing business .
Not long after that I woke up with pain in my back, as I lay on my back pain was gone, but still, interesting manifestation of the pain from waking state into a dream state…
In the study of physiology of the brain, there functions known as sleep spindles and k-complex’s that are seen as spikes on an EEG machine. They basically are responses of the human brain taking external stimuli and determining whether or not they are important enough or not to wake the sleeper (I believe that’s why sounds from outside are introduced into the dream). That’s what i think about when i feel pain in dreams caused by falling asleep on top of my arm in a strange position or what not If it’s an annoyance, then it isn’t worthy enough to wake you up. But if the problem with circulation becomes serious enough to cause an issue, then maybe that’s why you wake up… Not totally sure though. I’ve noticed whenever i feel “pain” in a dream that isn’t directly caused by an external source, the feeling is superficial and just doesn’t feel exactly like… i don’t know how to put it… “real” pain?
Agree, it’s not actually the pain but only information about what is happening and I guess if you were lucid in that moment you could get the clear picture of what is actually happening.
To me is fascinating how was this “pain” interpreted in a dream. Because when I woke up the feeling was the same…
I guess that the similar to the story of one lucid dreamer that I watched on youtube. The guy was having a mask for inducing lucid dreams it was nova dreamer or dream mask I don’t know, but when the lights started to flash he saw a police car chasing him with lights on so it all the play from the mind…
I had a very short low lucidity dream where I dreamt that I woke up and saw my own arm in front of me, semi-transparent and twisted to a degree which would render it broken. It was funny, because while I could feel the strange arm with my other hand, and was able to push my hand through it to a degree, I was unable to control it, nor did I have feeling in it.
I also had a constant sense of pins and needles at a point I couldn’t locate. When I woke up, I found myself in a sitting position and my real arm was under the pillow, completely numb with pins and needles. I think the lack of circulation had somehow translated into my dream, which was maybe why I dreamt of my arm being broken.
Scientifically, I think that is exactly what happens. I mean, I think that’s what they have proven about sleep, that your mind will transpose real life stimuli into your dream so you do not awaken unless your s.c. Deams it a danger. Look up some stuff om wiki about sleep spindles and k-complexes for further explanation, they are fascinating
Yeah, I guess you are right, but if weren’t lucid or if we don’t remember our dreams so good I guess we couldn’t actually experience this awesome phenomena…
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If it’s an annoyance, then it isn’t worthy enough to wake you up. But if the problem with circulation becomes serious enough to cause an issue, then maybe that’s why you wake up… Not totally sure though. I’ve noticed whenever i feel “pain” in a dream that isn’t directly caused by an external source, the feeling is superficial and just doesn’t feel exactly like… i don’t know how to put it… “real” pain?