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.
To have a dream that you experience real pain?
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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.