Your mind and your dreams
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I've heard tales about people feeling a phsyical reaction based upon their dreams for years now, but I always thought it was a tall-tale. I mean I know your mind is an incredibly complex, mysterious and powerful tool, but I just thought that was a little too far-fetched until this evening.
I had this weird dream that I was driving up this steep incline. As I got higher and higher it became steeper and steeper until I realized I was close to the top, but I wasn't going to make it and I started sliding. I stepped on the gas, and I flipped backwards. I remember falling what had to be like thirty feet, and the top of the car smashing into the ground beneath it. I woke up in EXCRUCIATING pain. My head felt like it had split open and my back was hurting so bad I couldn't move for about five seconds. The "headache" if you can call it that, went away as quickly as the backache, but it was just so weird.
Suffice it say, I believe in that connection now. Anyone else had a dream where you woke up and felt a physical after-effect yourself?
I had this weird dream that I was driving up this steep incline. As I got higher and higher it became steeper and steeper until I realized I was close to the top, but I wasn't going to make it and I started sliding. I stepped on the gas, and I flipped backwards. I remember falling what had to be like thirty feet, and the top of the car smashing into the ground beneath it. I woke up in EXCRUCIATING pain. My head felt like it had split open and my back was hurting so bad I couldn't move for about five seconds. The "headache" if you can call it that, went away as quickly as the backache, but it was just so weird.
Suffice it say, I believe in that connection now. Anyone else had a dream where you woke up and felt a physical after-effect yourself?
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Happens to me quite often. There are time I found myself waking up catching my breath coz in my dream I was chasing someone or being chase and there are also time that I woke up seeing my self jabbing into thin air. The most common is that in my dream I stumbled and my body reacted defensively as if I actually gonna fall.
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If this is a real documented phenomenon, then I wouldn't be surprised that the brain has the ability to simulate pain. Wish I knew the name for this.
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Right, phantom limb pain is one of those.
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chaosbreak wrote...
Phantom pain is one example of how your brain can 'generate' sensations from what is not there.Right, phantom limb pain is one of those.
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chaosbreak wrote...
Phantom pain is one example of how your brain can 'generate' sensations from what is not there.Aw, something like Phantom Limb Syndrome. My grandmother had that. She had to have her legs amputated from advancing problems caused by diabetes and up until her death she had this sort of "itching" sensation in her legs that weren't even physically there. All caused by the nerve ends spastic-ally sending information to the receptors in her brain.
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Yeah, that happens to me alot. I'd be dreaming about somethign awesome, then a car would come hit me out of nowhere and I'd wake up with a stiff body. Or dream about twisting my ankle, ad my foot would be sore for a few minutes.
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Experienced this a couple times~
Had a dream about falling off a cliff and hurting my legs, and woke up to find my limbs in weird position that's causing the pain.
Had a dream about falling off a cliff and hurting my legs, and woke up to find my limbs in weird position that's causing the pain.
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The only time i ever had something weird that came from a dream affect me when i woke up was basically one of those crash/falling dreams where you crash and then wake up and kinda have a shortness of breath. They dont happen anymore though.
Also i remember one time when i was still in high school i had this weird ass sexual dream. I was at some "historic" house in the desert with a group of ppl some from school and the others were strangers. So i ended up going into the house and like into this bedroom where apparently these two lesbians were sleeping at. Like one of them was taking a shower and the other one was naked in bed and sleeping(so you know whats going on here :D;);)). So i go crawl into her bed and started eating her pussy but thing is next thing i know i woke up and my pillow was wet and my mouth tasted like the fabric that my pillow was made out of. :lol:
Also i remember one time when i was still in high school i had this weird ass sexual dream. I was at some "historic" house in the desert with a group of ppl some from school and the others were strangers. So i ended up going into the house and like into this bedroom where apparently these two lesbians were sleeping at. Like one of them was taking a shower and the other one was naked in bed and sleeping(so you know whats going on here :D;);)). So i go crawl into her bed and started eating her pussy but thing is next thing i know i woke up and my pillow was wet and my mouth tasted like the fabric that my pillow was made out of. :lol:
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I had a dream
i was in a Dark Room
in the Middle of that room was a Black Piano
no matter i turn around
i can only see is that Piano
when i woke up i was
Crying for some reason i hate that dream
i don't know why but
i want to know what that dream means.
i was in a Dark Room
in the Middle of that room was a Black Piano
no matter i turn around
i can only see is that Piano
when i woke up i was
Crying for some reason i hate that dream
i don't know why but
i want to know what that dream means.
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I remember once, I was in some kind of battle..
In this one part, I remember I got stabbed in the lungs.. when that happened, I woke up and my entire left side hurt while the rest of my left arm was numb.
In this one part, I remember I got stabbed in the lungs.. when that happened, I woke up and my entire left side hurt while the rest of my left arm was numb.
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The brain certainly has the ability to simulate pain. The brain uses neurotransmitters to send signals throughout your body. These signals include when to recognize pain and when not to, so the brain controls when you may feel pain. Normally the brain requires an initial signal from a neurotransmitter that indicates pain, however under circumstances of extreme stress, or under the strong belief that something hurts, your brain will send a signal to the corresponding part of your body and cause it to feel pain. So it is entirely possible to believe you have been injured in a dream and to wake up feeling sore.
Another possible explanation for the phenomena of waking up in pain is that since the brain works in mysterious ways it's entirely possible that your body was already feeling some pain from the way you were lying down and merely projected images of what the possible causes for that pain could be into your mind, resulting in the dream.
Another possible explanation for the phenomena of waking up in pain is that since the brain works in mysterious ways it's entirely possible that your body was already feeling some pain from the way you were lying down and merely projected images of what the possible causes for that pain could be into your mind, resulting in the dream.
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ThorW wrote...
The brain certainly has the ability to simulate pain. The brain uses neurotransmitters to send signals throughout your body. These signals include when to recognize pain and when not to, so the brain controls when you may feel pain. Normally the brain requires an initial signal from a neurotransmitter that indicates pain, however under circumstances of extreme stress, or under the strong belief that something hurts, your brain will send a signal to the corresponding part of your body and cause it to feel pain. So it is entirely possible to believe you have been injured in a dream and to wake up feeling sore.Another possible explanation for the phenomena of waking up in pain is that since the brain works in mysterious ways it's entirely possible that your body was already feeling some pain from the way you were lying down and merely projected images of what the possible causes for that pain could be into your mind, resulting in the dream.
Sounds entirely plausible to me. Thanks.
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Hey, found some creepy shit here that might help explain about your situation:
Sleep Paralysis
As you fall asleep, several things happen. First, your conscious mind is set to low-level functioning. Next, your body is immobilized so that you can dream of doing things like running, without actually running into your bedroom wall... Then, your brain cycles in and out of REM. Occasionally, your conscious mind wakes up, but forgets to include other parts of your brain, usually just seconds before the REM is phased completely out. The result is that for the next few moments, you get to watch the dream, or rather nightmare in most cases, played out as a vivid hallucination right before your very much awakened eyes.
Oh, and that part about you being immobilized? That's still there, hence the "paralysis" half of "sleep paralysis." Not only do get to watch the demonized spider-crabs on your ceiling eat a tiny kitten just above your immobile body, you are completely helpless to do anything about it when they come for you.
Or it could be a case of exploding head syndrome in the middle of your sleep.
I once dreamt I was peeing, but IRL, I wasn't for some reason. Then in the same dream, after peeing, I washed my hands (still nothing) then spat on the toilet a mouthful of phlegm. I suddenly woke to the grossing smell of morning spit plus phlegm. No pee, no water, but I just spat on the pillow. Weird, because usually you wake up the moment you pee in your dreams for a reason I'm sure everybody knows.
Sleep Paralysis
As you fall asleep, several things happen. First, your conscious mind is set to low-level functioning. Next, your body is immobilized so that you can dream of doing things like running, without actually running into your bedroom wall... Then, your brain cycles in and out of REM. Occasionally, your conscious mind wakes up, but forgets to include other parts of your brain, usually just seconds before the REM is phased completely out. The result is that for the next few moments, you get to watch the dream, or rather nightmare in most cases, played out as a vivid hallucination right before your very much awakened eyes.
Oh, and that part about you being immobilized? That's still there, hence the "paralysis" half of "sleep paralysis." Not only do get to watch the demonized spider-crabs on your ceiling eat a tiny kitten just above your immobile body, you are completely helpless to do anything about it when they come for you.
Or it could be a case of exploding head syndrome in the middle of your sleep.
I once dreamt I was peeing, but IRL, I wasn't for some reason. Then in the same dream, after peeing, I washed my hands (still nothing) then spat on the toilet a mouthful of phlegm. I suddenly woke to the grossing smell of morning spit plus phlegm. No pee, no water, but I just spat on the pillow. Weird, because usually you wake up the moment you pee in your dreams for a reason I'm sure everybody knows.
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First of all, you need to understand the following, to the human mind, a thing such as dream or awake doesn't exist, it's all the same. It only operates less during one.
So, if you in reality drop and hurt, nerves feel this and send messages to your brain, which then turns it into pain signals.
If you're following me you should be able to understand that that means the first step was merely not made, your mind saw it as SO real that it made those pain signals on its own, yet they quickly faded since the source stopped.
I had the same thing once, i was running through an alley when someone came around a corner and hit me with a bat on the ribs. I woke up but i couldn't breath for 4-6 seconds, i thought a dream was gonna kill me, at which i cynically laughed. That also apparently freed me from the pain feeling and i gasped for air.
Our brains are very weird and intriguing devices.
So, if you in reality drop and hurt, nerves feel this and send messages to your brain, which then turns it into pain signals.
If you're following me you should be able to understand that that means the first step was merely not made, your mind saw it as SO real that it made those pain signals on its own, yet they quickly faded since the source stopped.
I had the same thing once, i was running through an alley when someone came around a corner and hit me with a bat on the ribs. I woke up but i couldn't breath for 4-6 seconds, i thought a dream was gonna kill me, at which i cynically laughed. That also apparently freed me from the pain feeling and i gasped for air.
Our brains are very weird and intriguing devices.
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chaosbreak wrote...
Phantom pain is one example of how your brain can 'generate' sensations from what is not there.What I'd like to know is if it can generate pain that has yet to be experienced by the person. For example, if I have yet to experience being shot, would my mind be able to accurately generate the pain in a dream?
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Maybe, your brain simulates the pain you think you'd have when getting shot.
I never had any experience where I couldn't move because of the pain after having a nightmare,
though waking short of breath and crying mid sleep have already happened.
I never had any experience where I couldn't move because of the pain after having a nightmare,
though waking short of breath and crying mid sleep have already happened.
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I had this dream a few years ago, about walking trough a door in my house in the woods (the fact that my house ISN'T in the woods dind't seem to register in the dream, though -isn't that weird about dreams?-), when suddenly I get close and personal with a boa constrictor... and then here I was, sitting up on my bed, utterly unable to breath for a few moments, and with this painful sensation around my neck... became a believer since then too.
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This kind of happened to me once. I was sleeping under a desk and I moved my foot and hit one of the legs and in my dream I thought I had tripped over a cliff. I woke up and slammed my head on the bottom of the desk and I just couldn't shake the feeling that I was falling.
