Can you feel pain in your dreams?

There are times when I'm in a dream and I'd be questioning if this is in fact a dream or reality. So to get to the bottom of that, I'd pinch myself, but I'd feel the pain in the dream so   reply

Interesting question. Now this got me wracking my brain. Because I lucid dream a lot and tend to be aware I'm dreaming... I don't recall feeling pain in dreams. At least, not anything worth noting. One time I dreamed about flying and "crashing" onto rocky ground. Didn't hurt, just got back up and continued the dream. Other times I'd fight monsters,......   3 reply

I think it depends. When I want to wake up in a nightmare, I just bite my arm and I don’t feel the pain, but the one instance I felt a little pain when I bite my hand is when I had a sleep paralysis   reply

i have sleep paralysis so you tell me   reply

i have a nightmare that's been recurring over the last few months or so and what wakes me up from it is actually the fact that my head is aching so hard I can no longer stand to remain in the dream. afterward i have a pounding, almost migraine-like headache for a while that eventually fades. that's anecdotal but it's 100% my true experience, so mak......   1 reply

As far as I know—though I’m in no way a professional—pain in dreams is considered rare and an indication of poor mental health. How “real” the pain feels more so depends on the person, but not much is known due to how difficult dreams are to study. Personally, I’ve had a dream so excruciatingly “real” in its pain that I had claspe......   1 reply

Yes, it can feel very painful, not physically I accidentally watched an episode of Ito Junji, and Alice in the Wonderland anime (Halloween night), and then that night I had a bizarre dream about being munched by one of my extremely delulu strict school teachers. I shrinked into a small human being, fell into his breakfast bowl, was mistakenly scoo......   reply

Yes, definitely. It's kind of a pet peeve of mine, tbh, when someone claims that you can't, because it's so obviously bs.   reply

This was my exact question when I got nightmares that feels real. Someone killed me and peel off my skin like I can feel the blade penetrated my skin and and hurts like hell. But my sister told me that it was just created by our brain, and we know the feeling because we experience something related to that, for example cutting yourself unexpectedly......   1 reply

You can't feel pain in your dream, but you know how pain feels like that's why you react on your dream like it's real.   reply