Do any of you feel pain or any sensation when you dream? Most of the time when I dream, whatever I touch, I can actually feel it. For example, one night I dreamt that my tooth was getting pulled. I could feel the pain and taste the blood. But its not only pain I can feel, its everything. Ill wake up with unexplainable bruises and Ill often have a daja vu moments. I also dream in absolute detail. If I met someone once or twice, my dreams can mimmik their walk, voice, and looks exactly. Ive always dreamt this way and lately its been getting worse and worse. I'm the only one I know who has this problem and I wanna know if any of you know anything about it.
And just for curiosity, have any of you ever seen a reflection of yourself in your dreams? Is it even possible?

I know what you mean about "feeling" things in dreams, I get that too. I've not seen a reflection of myself that I remember, but I occasionally dream from a third person perspective, viewing myself from anothers viewpoint. I also have vivid dreams, and I remember them the next day. Even if I don't remember conciously I can feel the previous nights dream nagging at the back of my mind, it's so difficult to explain, like I remember the essence but not the details. Another thing I've noticed is a sense of deja vu in I'd say 90% of my dreams. I'll dream about the same locations over and over again, I can't remember the last time I dreamt about somewhere that felt new. Even if I don't recognise it straight away as the dream progresses I realise I've been there before. One thing that every one of my dreams has is a theme of me trying to get from one place to another by various means - walking, bus, horse and cart, never flying though.

I could always feel pain in my dreams, but I usually can't really recall most of the dreams I dream, when I wake up, I know I had a dream, I can also recall that I felt pain, I may only recall what kind of pain it was, but not the whole dream most of the time, but then later on, the dream comes back as flashes in my mind, sometimes the occurrence of something in my life would bring back a memory of a dream that is so close to what I'm going through if not the same.

As for seeing my reflection, I've never really seen my reflection in a dream, that's pretty interesting and strange, does it happen frequently?



Bruises??

I have seen my reflection, usually it is a bit different from how I look like. Sometimes it's the same, but I think if I had looked at it longer, it would change, but I never did.

I know what you mean, that happenes often. Ive almost seen my reflection, but everytime I get close I wake up. Once, I could barely breath for a bit. It was kinda scary actually. But my bruises are always on my legs, usually on the calf muscle. The largest one I had was about the size of a toonie. And I know I dont kick or my brother would complain about it.

Sometimes I can feel hurt as in the emotional hurt. And I can feel different things too.

I can also remember my dreams. Right away, I don't have to think hard about them at all. O_o;

i usually have a series of dreams each night and sometimes i get up to do something in my house, and i know i was just dreaming but while im "awake" and do whatever it is i was gunna do, i'll either wake up suddenly in my dream to realise i was dreaming that i woke up, or ill lay back down and go back to dreaming only to realise in the morning when i wake for the day that my memory of waking up in the middle of the night was false.

I'm always thinking I'm doing something "real" in my dreams, it can get quite frustrating when I'm insisting I did something only to realise I must have dreamt it. The most recent being a few days ago. I was ill and having a nap on the sofa, earlier that day my brother in law had asked me the date, I correctly told him the 15th (Jan). During my sleep I dreamt I'd said it was the 17th, and I was so confused I had to check the date on my pc as I was convinced it was the 17th.

On a side note, when I was small this would cause problems with bed wetting. I'd dream about waking up and going to the toilet (I'd feel all the sensations too) and only realise I hadn't got out of bed when the inevitable happened. I was 10 before I could control it. And yes, I do remember dreams from when I was little, in vivid detail.

I don't feel a lot of pain in my dreams, but I do feel. Like cold (like climbing down a metal iron laddar I could feel the cold metal), or if something is smooth, rough etc. once I was in outer space and I was deaf but I could feel myself breath, feel my lungs expands. Once I die in a dream I jump off a high waterfall, before I die or hit the bottom I could feel the mist of the waterfall on me, when I awoke I was sweating but it felt like mist from the waterfall when I was dreaming. I been bumped in dream, I know it should of hurt but it was a strange vibration feeling instead of pain. I smell in my dreams sometimes, too.
About the deja vu, I been telling this to people for years now. I get deja vu in my dreams a lot. I have something I coin "the deja vu method of lucid dreaming". I was lucid dreaming as a child (didn't know it was different), so i never practice lucid dreaming. But before I become lucid in a dream I always get a deja vu feeling. For example, I dream about a house I called the House of time eras. I been here so many times in my dreams I now when I am dreaming about this house I will get the feeling of Deja Vu, and I will wonder where I am at, and I will realize this is my House of time eras and realize I am dreaming. I have quite a few themes in my dreams that I get deja vu, like I have a futurtic supermall, that has 1000s of levels awhole community lives within this place, in some of my dreams I have an overcast looked to them/ i can see color but It isn't like in real life it is a little dull, I have learned to realize this in my dreams. I have others themes. But I used the deja vu to become lucid in my dreams. (and when i am lucid I never try to control my dreams I let the dream flow and take in all the detail, sometimes in my house I will try on all the clothes from what ever time era is in that room, it is fun). I always tell people who want to lucid dream to know how they dream and looked for themes, then once your consious mind is aware of the dream life it will give you deja vu in your dreams and soon you will beable to know when you are dreaming.
I seen myself in a mirror only a few times, sometimes I become other people, it is creepy.

Have you ever made eye contact with people in your dreams, that's creepy. I hate it, it gets to me everytime.

I don't remember much about my dreams but I know enough that I don't feel actual pain but I have felt feelings like love in dreams.

In one unique set of dreams that I use to have when i was little I felt a weird feeling. The dream would start out normal(as far as my dreams go anyways) but towards the end of my dream I would get a sort of "spider-sense"(best i can describe) and get scared then a monster would attack me(the monsters in my dreams where weird...like monster wagons and roosters) and when the monster attacked me I would get different weird feeling and then dream would end (the dreams ended when the monster "leaped" at me and not him actually clawing at me or something).

These dreams don't happen anymore because when I was little I got fed up of these nightmares and somehow figured how to become aware when I'm dreaming...I would just let the monsters attack me without fear just so the dream could end(my dreams where really long and I couldn't figure out how to wake up so I would go looking for a monster sometimes).

ive once had a dream where i was shot in the head at close range with a rifle, and as soon as the gun went off it all went black and i had a warm tingly feeling throughout my whole body.

I've had my dreams mimic whats going on with my body. Like if I am sleeping funny and some part of my body is in pain, then I might dream that part is being hurt.

NOHANDs-wow i thougt i was the only one experience this
hehe......last night i experience i become the sound of the trycycle i drove in my dream i can feel it in my whole body...

From my own personal experience, dreams can sometimes manifest themselves into a physical form when it's much too powerful for the subsciousness mind to handle alone. Strange, isn't it? The subconscious mind is the most powerful and influencial of our two minds, but even the sub mind can become overwhelmed and needs a little help from the the conscious mind to make further sense of an image or sensation to being to light. For example, emotions play a HUGE role in REM sleep and subconscious thought. We organise our thoughts during sleep not only by sensory imagary but how THAT image and the experience with that image made us feel. So it's store in two places. The mind comes to an empass: Do you bury it or store it closer to the surface so we can return back to later and deal with it?

Okay, I'm getting a little off topic.

Painful dreams are stemmed from memories so close to the surface they need to be dealt with by the conscious mind in order for them to be stored in the subconscious mind, to put it simply, and often the body harms itself as a reminder to deal with them. Bruises are a common occurance, they help the mind realise: Okay, we have a problem, now deal with it. If the problem is not dealt with quickly, the body takes further action. You see the body is an organism like the brain and both need to be working in perfect harmony to be in balance. If one is experiencing problems, the other is constantly reminded.

I always make eye-contact with everyone, exept my family members, the rare time that their there anyway.

Anything is possible in dreams, during my dreams I often change which person I am in my dreams. I have only ever done the thing hwere I have woken up with the smae pain in my dream but scientists say that you have injured yourself while you sleep and it has influenced your dream though. Still in some cases I think that is not really possible. I am afraid that alot of things about dreams still can't be explained so you will have to live with it.

I'm glad I read all the threads on this post, it makes me feel sooo much better. I have dreams that are so real & vivid, to the point of being painful or pleasurable, depending on type. The one I had just last night had some very painful moments. In my dream I had several points of view. First I was just watching what was going on, then I became part of the dream as someone else, & lastly as an odd version of myself. Unfortunately for me, the first person I became in the dream was being tasered! That freaking hurt!!! Hurt to the point of being paralyzed, laying in the mud, begging them to stop!!!

Most all of my dreams are soooo very real. I can remember one I had years ago where I had to capture these blue Emperor Penguins that a co-worker had accidently let out of their cages. Not only were they huge & blue, but they had a nasty attitude & could fly! The next morning, I felt like I had gone more than a couple of round with Muhammad Ali (when he was in his prime). Yeah, I checked for bruises & bite marks!

I also had one where I dreamed I was being attacked my a pack of wild dogs. I was crying & screaming in my sleep so loud that it not only woke my hubby, but scared the you-know out of my neighbors. We both had to go to the door to prove all was fine so they wouldn't call the cops! Yet in my dreams I could feel the dog's teeth & the blood running down my face & arms. **shutters some still**

I'm just glad to know I'm not the only one who has dreams like this. Cause I really don't know anyone personally who does. Thanks, gang!

Hi REd Mercury,

To answer yor questions:

Psychology has studied this prosses for years so their is much matterial on this subject. The quick answer is

by the facts ,witch is pain in dreams. Some people are subjestable, meaning as they process though, they also think and

feel. This phenoman occurs in dreams as well, Why you ask?

I'll have to ask and analyse my dog ,who one after noon sound asleep , an was semi-barkink and moving his feet as if

chasing a cat up a tree. I'm sure it was real to him but I just laught -I wanted to wake him up but hey he was having fun l

let him sleep.

Your emotions are strongly connected to your subconcious thought process as if hyptnotised ; but it can be corrected the

same way throught self -hyptnosis. Some people are more emotional than others and this will apear in your dreams also.

When you see your self in a dream --who or whats doing the dearming? Or is it a reflection.