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During dreams I will feel pain vivid and real and at times excruciating. Upon waking my physical state is normal. Is it normal to feel/simulate the full sensation of pain whilst in a dreamstate?
The mind releases chemicals in response to your preceived environment. Certain thoughts cause people to throw up or have panic attacks. No reason pain could not be felt.
Pain is a warning mechanism to the body. Question is it the dream causing the pain or pain causing the dream?
If physical pain is causing the dream check you eating, drinking, and sleep patterns. Correlate personal habits vs. nights you experience pain.
If trauma is causing the pain try reprogramming yourself. Watching upbeat movies before sleeping, reading mellow books, or any activity to chill out.
Also run it by your doctor just to have a professional aware of your situation. The stress of this can lower your quality of life.
It's the dream causing the pain. In the dream where physical events occur, I will feel pain in response to them (ie getting stabbed, shot etc.)
Thank you for your thorough, well articulated comment.
You're welcome. You have a fascinating and terrifying issue to resolve.
The body never stops processing complex information from vibrations sound, light, etc. The mind releases chemicals to dull the senses allowing us to engage an internal conversation. Note the mind and body operate as one meaning psychological and physical pain are interlinked.
We only operate on the surface of our thoughts while awake, bury information in the subconscious for later processing, and discard the mundane. What may appear random is a mixture of our past experiences. Suppression of ideas to the subconscious is a survival mechanism. If you are familiar with having to defragment a computer hard drive it supposedly works in a similar fashion.
The point is your recurring dream is based on a concept you are not ready to handle. For a particular reason you can not sort, categorize, or reason the idea. Humans hate not being able to categorize.
If we only store meaningful differential information the message of the recurring dream is clearly important to your well being.
-Why is the violence brought against you? Why not the other way around where you are beating others?
-The dream shows mortality, vulnerability to others, and lack of physical security.
I can only speculate. You know yourself.
Look up sensory deprivation tanks and read sites like science daily. Search for "sleep" there are articles linking sleep issues with pain, insulin resistance, personality disorders, etc. Wish you the best of luck in your journey, cheers.
Pain To dream that you are in pain suggests that you are being too hard on yourself, especially if a situation was out of your control. The dream may also be a true reflection of actual pain that exists somewhere in your body. Dreams can reveal and warn about health problems. Consider where the pain is for additional significance. If the pain is in your neck, then the dream may be a metaphor that you are literally being a "pain in the neck".
To dream that you are inflicting pain to yourself indicates that you are experiencing some overwhelming turmoil or problems in your waking life. You are trying to disconnect yourself from your reality by focusing on the pain that you inflicted to yourself.
No its always someone else inflicting the pain, or the pain is present from thr outset (I once dreamt I had a broken jaw). I have been to see the gp and I have a perfect bill of health.
Thank you for your analogy of the symbolism of pain in dreams, dream psychology fascinates me.
All god comments above, heed the warning signs your body's giving you, and get a thorough checkup.