To have a dream that you experience real pain?

The other night I had a dream that was very... frightening. To make a long story short, I was in a plane when it attempted to take off from what seems like an elevation where it would be flying from and the end of the runway had sort of an arch to it like a jump. So instead of going off it and flying/gliding, it fell. I have had dreams where I have fallen before (not very often) but this was different. As the plane was falling, I was experiencing true pain of being thrown up towards the ceiling and my head was being hit against it at a very rapid and violent rate. The thing is, I felt it in my physical body as if I experienced it. Just as I was about to hit the ground (this happened in a matter of a few seconds it seemed) I woke myself up from it but still felt the physical pain I felt in the dream itself. And still do from time to time like I am now while typing this.

Also, I felt what it is like to "know" that you are witnessing the last few moments of your life. To know that it is all about to end; which freaked me out almost as equally as the pain did.

Has this ever happened to someone before? Please let me know what you think of this.

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  • Leviathanel

    yeah it's happened to me. my most memorable moment of this happening was a dream where i stepped on a thumb tack.

    i recieved a blow job in a dream the other day and it felt exactly the same as a real one. honestly it was so realistic that i was going to ask my girlfriend if she did it to me while i was sleeping but i realised she didn't.

    my freakiest falling dream i fell off a rickety rope bridge suspended in a canyon that looked a lot like the grand canyon... kind of cliche, looking back at the dream it sort of reminds me of the road runner cartoon.

    anyways to make a long story shorter i fell off the bridge and actually hit the bottom of the canyon. i used to believe that you can't hit the bottom in a falling dream but we both know that's not true. anyways i laid there on the bottom of the canyon for a brief moment and my ghost/soul started to rise from it. i saw my mangled carcass in third person, bones jutting out and a broken jaw. then i woke up from the fear.

    oddly enough i was athiest at the time. so you would think it would be odd for an athiest to dream about being a ghost or having a soul but i think that part stemmed from my fear of non-existance to comfort my troubled mind.

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  • tunak

    i have felt pain in dreams before its always the same dream that makes me wake up screaming...

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  • Simply_Abnormal

    I know the exact same confusion;

    Nothing as dramatic though; I was being chased by a vicious dog; I kept running and running until I tripped which lead to the dog biting me hard on the leg - I woke up just after it occurred and could feel the pain on my leg. The next morning the pain had still not gone..
    I reckon its just the mind playing tricks...

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  • Holy fuck, i had the very same dream!!

    So we were on the plane, it took off very quickly, but then there is this huge arch, likd joined together, then were aboout to hit it but the piliot pulls down and a loud bang happens and were were falling, it was as if i expeiranced death berore

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  • Millionaire

    do you have bruises on ur head

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  • jrphotographer

    Dreams where you ate falling mean that you ate insecure. I have those too tho :/ scary as hell

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    • Leviathanel

      bull bobbity.

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  • Yeah it happens to me, or an intense ticklish feeling in my ribs.

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  • i had a dream once it was really wierd but the end of it was after being stuck in this big place for some reason the people who were trapped with me who were my frineds ( i dont know them in reality) ended up trying to shoot each other because 2 guns came down this tube thing and i got one of them and another got the other one we ended up killing the people without the guns then i shot the guy with it and i dont know if he shot me but i ended up feeling shot but i didnt feel the bullet shot i felt the dying part and it felt like i really was dying i couldnt imagine dying being any difrent

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  • ultimate

    Theoretically, people do feel pain in their dreams, as everything else, and they also fell like it is true.
    And in cases like this, the placebo effect is big as well. If you see some serious wound or for example watch a movie about ants running everywhere, you kind of barely actually can feel these things on yourself.
    And when you did actually feel that pain, or your mind thinks it has actually happened to you, the effect would be much stronger.
    I can clearly remember when I discovered that pain in dreams can hurt as much as in real life. In my dream I grazed my knees in concrete, which pretty much hurts anyway, so it gave me a good measure of how things hurt in dreams compared to real life. And it was just as much unpleasant as in real life, I could even feel the characteristics of the pain of grazed skin. And although I can't remember the feeling itself, I woke up not much later, and I found pretty interesting that this can happen, and quickly assumed how it felt. I guess that happens a lot more, but we usually forget our dreams, and even otherwise, we just remember the fact that something did hurt, bun not the feeling itself. Our "luck" was that we felt pain immediately before waking up.

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