Is it normal to get hurt in your dream and feel it in real life

I used to have this dream where it felt so real. In the dream I would just be walking in this park and just randomly some guy in all black is just standing there watching me then all of a sudden he runs so fast at me so I have no time to react and he throws me at this tree and then I wake up right after. But when I wake up I have this really sharp pain in my back. I'm 100% sure I wasn't sleeping in the wrong position because I just stay the same way all night when I'm asleep. I have had this dreAm at least 5 or 6 times and a few other dreams like that just in a different place.

Is this normal?

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Based on 362 votes (247 yes)
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  • wigsplitz

    I think it's the other way around, I think you probably got a cramp or a pain and your mind created the dream around that. It happens to me all the time, more often with sounds. If my alarm goes off, once in a while I end up creating a little dream around the sound of the alarm. Sometimes it's the TV or music, or being chilly or hot....happens all the time.

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  • buckman

    Yes because your brain controls what you dream and what you feel. You can dream about someone grabbing you and have a handprint bruise from it.

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    • KeyboardSolo

      No...you can't. You can possibly feel pain, since pain is purely the brain's interpretation of nerve stimuli, but you're not going to have a bruise. A bruise is broken blood vessels. Your mind isn't going to make that happen.

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  • Unknown5

    In my dream I had to keep someone from seeing what's in my hand so I closed my hands tight and when I woke up my hands had indents from where the object was. (I don't remember what the object was and there is nothing on my bed that could have made the marks).

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  • Athenaluna

    Yes, I think it is very normal. For example I just now woke up from a dream where I got stabbed in the middle of the chest during a fight. When I woke up I have this sharp constant pain in my chest. I was looking it up because I was confused on this topic and if anyone has really experienced it before because it actually kinda scared me.

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    • Sagesam

      The same thing has been happening to me but it ranges from knife wounds to shots to gunshots and it’s freaking me out a little, have you found out more since you posted this reply?

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  • namea1b2

    Last night I got shot in the chest in my dream by some guy i didn't recognize and 4 hours later I can still feel the pain

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    • Mercedez

      The same exact dream happened to me. I'm glad I'm not alone. I hope it doesnt last 4 hours though. Its been an hour and it feels like an open wound. At least the guy that shot me said sorry before he did it.

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  • Unscnavy312

    I got thrown into a door or a window and I have a goose egg above my right eye in my dream.

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  • WizardlyNormal

    Lol I spelled off of

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  • WizardlyNormal

    Actually the same thing happened to me I had a dream where somehow I was burning my leg of and I woke up and I felt like my leg was on fire, it didn't feel like a cramp though

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  • ItHappenedToMe

    Heres one to chew on. MY SHOULDER GOT DISLOATED IN MY DREAM! So as a kid my shoulder got dislocated playing beach volleyball and it was never treated properly. Since that initial dislocation it happened about 3 times after that. But one fateful night about 10 years later (no clue what the dream was about) I suddenly woke up at dawn with the typical intense pain of a dislocated shoulder and sure enough it was out. (called parametics and they popped it back in) While it might not have happened in the dream per se, my body sure as hell reacted to something so violently that it threw out my shoulder in real life. Two months later, I operated on the shoulder and fixed it permanently but to answer the question... Yes, you can get hurt in real life while in deep sleep.

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  • daydreamer394

    Before I slept I was having stabbing pains in my heart. Last night someone had a gun tied to each wrist and a man was making them shoot someone in the group of us (presumably they would die otherwise) and they turned to me and shot me in the heart. I had a burning sensation and said "death is like sleep" and that's all I remember; don't even know who the people were.
    So maybe the pain 'inspires' the dream or fascinatingly perhaps the mind is strong enough to produce a physical reaction...

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    • daydreamer394

      Lol, I missed the crucial part: Last night, IN MY DREAM, someone had a gun

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  • ZeeZum

    Ages Ago I Had A Dream Where I Was On A Field Trip With School And I Was Trying To Climb A Hill Where They Were Going It Was Kind Of Steep But It Was Rocky And Sand So It Was Slippery So I Was Trying To Get Up Like Gripping Plants To Hold On To Then One Time My Friend Who Was Not Trying Started To Hang Onto My Leg I Shouted At Him to get off but he just pulled me down i scraped my leg and woke up annoyed at my friend i calmed my self down by saying he didnt really do it but it still hurt where i scraped it i dont think i saw a scrape but it might of and it wasnt already there i think it was because i got hurt in my sleep and it came into my dream

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  • kit291

    I had a dream were i was walking down a road and some guy grabbed me and pinned me up aginst the wall and cut my arm then i woke up and i found that i had a cut on my arm were he cut me. I know it wasn't there before i went to bed. explain that one? i'd like to know if there is a reason this happened or if i just sleep walked and did it...

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  • randomjelly

    The dream doesn't give you pain...the pain gives you the dream. I have a medical condition that causes dislocations and I will awake from a dream where I am being run over or crushed etc to find that something is out of place. The same thing can happen if you hear a sound while asleep...it can be incorporated into your dream.

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  • straighthair

    I find it normal, when i was 9 i had a dream of being chased, and then punched in the back. woke up in pain and a day later there was a large bruise on my back. Parents took me to the doctor, they said it was just a bruise.

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  • spacerandy

    The dream may have been so intense that your brain produced a sensation as if you were actually hurt, but if you felt the pain for longer than a few seconds after waking up, then it was probably already there and you incorporated it into your dream.
    Once i dreamt i was being bit by snakes, and actually felt it, even right after i woke up. It's very possible to create imaginary pains or discomfort if you can somehow trick your mind that you're being hurt, so i dont see how that cant happen in a dream.

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  • waakus

    It`s common. It`s a psychosomatic response to mental stimuli. The brain is able to create pain even when there is no trauma. A common example is `sympathy pains` like when a guy feels pain in his balls after seeing someone get kicked in the nuts.

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