Hello everyone, been off for while lol.
So anyway, what i wanted to ask is about this extraordinarily painful dream i had a few nights ago.
I know if you ask, everyone will say that pain in your dreams is not actually real, and its just a type of illusion created by your mind, but this was absolutely different.
What happened was; me and my friend were going to make a movie (in the dream) and he needed realistic acting, as he said, so i was forced to feel pain. So he put his knee on my bottom ribs (on the right) and leaned with all his weight onto it, and maybe even adding some extra weight on purpose, the pain was excruciating, it felt as if my two ribs was about to splinter, as if it was cracking and breaking off so slowly; naturally, i screamed, trying to budge his knee off my rib but the more i did this, the more he put pressure on it, and most of the dream went on with me screaming (i probably was actually also screaming physically, since i had a sore throat the next morning)
So i woke up when the alarm rang, and to my astonishment, my bottom right ribs were kind of bruised, and it felt as if i had been kicked multiple times there. Obviously i was amazed and freaked out by this experience, i don't remember being injured at school or anything through out the whole month, but there it was, a big yellow-ish bruise on my ribs, hurting every time i turned my body and breathed deeply.
Creepy, i know, but does anyone at all have and idea what could have caused this?
(Oh.. and hows my description out of 10? (10 being the best) i got my exams soon :-D)
Quote from: anxhelino1234 on March 31, 2011, 17:05:44
Hello everyone, been off for while lol.
So anyway, what i wanted to ask is about this extraordinarily painful dream i had a few nights ago.
I know if you ask, everyone will say that pain in your dreams is not actually real, and its just a type of illusion created by your mind, but this was absolutely different.
What happened was; me and my friend were going to make a movie (in the dream) and he needed realistic acting, as he said, so i was forced to feel pain. So he put his knee on my bottom ribs (on the right) and leaned with all his weight onto it, and maybe even adding some extra weight on purpose, the pain was excruciating, it felt as if my two ribs was about to splinter, as if it was cracking and breaking off so slowly; naturally, i screamed, trying to budge his knee off my rib but the more i did this, the more he put pressure on it, and most of the dream went on with me screaming (i probably was actually also screaming physically, since i had a sore throat the next morning)
So i woke up when the alarm rang, and to my astonishment, my bottom right ribs were kind of bruised, and it felt as if i had been kicked multiple times there. Obviously i was amazed and freaked out by this experience, i don't remember being injured at school or anything through out the whole month, but there it was, a big yellow-ish bruise on my ribs, hurting every time i turned my body and breathed deeply.
Creepy, i know, but does anyone at all have and idea what could have caused this?
(Oh.. and hows my description out of 10? (10 being the best) i got my exams soon :-D)
I might be crazy here, but how can this "pain" be "absolutely different" from any other pain? Pain is pain...
The notion of it in the non-physical, at least in my opinion, is that it's created by your expectation (consciously or subconsciously) of it.
It can and will feel every bit as real as it would here in the physical.
The fact that you were dreaming, meant you thought it was physical reality, so, obviously... if someone was to do that to you in physical reality, you'd expect to feel "excruciating pain"... it's only logical. With that said, the bruising you found upon waking could either have been already there and you didn't notice it. So, your mind created the scenario in order to tell you it was there. OR... you believed you had pain there so "Intently", that the focused intent upon that pain was enough to manifest damaged tissue in that area to support the pain you were feeling in the dream.
I'm sure there are other possibilities as well that I'm just not thinking of.
Perhaps you hit yourself while sleeping. :)
What you are saying could be true, but i know that i am a very light sleeper, so the "hitting myself in my sleep" option does not apply, and the thing about the bran focusing on tissues on the skin to support the pain in my dream, i don't think that happens naturally, or at all for that matter.
oh,and did i forget to mention that every time i looked at my friend, it was as if the pain from the dream came back again (not everytime, like once out of 20 times i saw him) but now it's stopped :D