Cerise wrote:
Personally, Id like to know where that 'you dont feel pain in dreams' lie came from. I know that I certainly feel pain.
Do you
feel the pain, or do you just know it's happening? When I have dreams involving pain, I don't feel the pain. In fact, the dreams often go like this:
*painful thing happens*
Me: "Why didn't that hurt?"
I don't remember that many specific examples, but there was one dream where I was jumping off a platform onto a wooden floor, knees first (I think I was at a sleepover and the other girls were doing it.) And then there was one dream where someone cut off my hand. (Hmm, now where did that come from?) And I didn't feel anything those times, even though my subconscious knew I should've.
However, I think I do feel certain things. When I have dreams about falling, I think I feel a very slight version of that horrible feeling I get when I'm on an amusement park ride. Not significantly, though. Not enough to actually hurt. And I felt cold in the dream I told about in my other post.
Sometimes I have dreams about drowning...I'm underwater (usually in a swimming pool), and for some reason, I can't get back up. Then I can't hold my breath any longer, and I take a huge breath...and it turns out I can breathe underwater.
My dad thinks I might have those dreams when my face is pressed against the pillow, and then when I take the breath, it's me turning my head and gasping outside of the dream, and since I don't sleep underwater (no, really?), my lungs fill with air, which is echoed in my dream.
So yeah, external factors affect my dreams, I guess. It works the other way around too. Sometimes I make a defined movement in my dream (example: actually moving my legs instead of just drifting), and it causes me to twitch in real life. One time, I dreamed that I was trying to see something, and I realized my eyes were closed, and I opened them, and my eyes snapped open in real life. End of dream.
I guess that's what happens when people talk in their sleep. I've talked in my sleep twice in my whole life. One time, at least eight years ago, I woke up saying "I want to tell her something", and the other time, maybe a few weeks ago, it was "I need to tell her". (Wow, that's really coincidental. O_o)
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