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Ulpio Tregoning
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Little is known about pain in dreams. Some studies indicate that it is rare and that it may be beyond the representational capability of dreaming. However, the present study describes experiences of dreamed pain that were reported incidentally in experiments on the effects of somatosensory stimulation administered during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Dreams were selected from five subjects who had reported at least one instance of dreamed pain in these studies. The subjects had undergone 42 stimulation trials over 20 nights and had reported a total of 13 dreams (31%) with one or more references to pain. Most often, these references appeared to be direct, untransformed incorporations of real sensations produced by stimulation. Pain was the principal motivating agent in a majority of these dreams and was in many cases associated with strong emotion--typically anger. Dreams often depicted the subjects' attempts to obtain relief from pain, in some cases by repetition of actions, in others by metaphoric renditions of the goal. The results indicate that although pain is rare in dreams, it is nevertheless compatible with the representational code of dreaming. Further, the association of pain with dream content may implicate brainstem and limbic centers in the regulation of painful stimuli during REM sleep.
The topic is a complex one, with an array of interesting studies surrounding it. The general consensus: Yes, you can feel pain in dreams, but whether that pain is triggered by the dream or by something physically happening in your body is a whole neurological minefield.
The pain participants experienced mimicked the real-life pain that was being inflicted by the tightening cuff. Interestingly, the theme of the dreams tended to center around this pain, with the dreamers reporting feelings of anger and repetitive actions that were intended to alleviate the pain. One participant with a long-standing knee problem also reported greater pain in dreams compared to the other participants.
Pain in the brain presents as activation in the pain-related areas of your cerebral cortex, triggered by information from pain receptors in your peripheral nervous system. When dreamt pain occurs in dreams, your brain probably isn't receiving pain messages from parts of your body, but instead drawing from memories of pain from your past.
When it comes to your likelihood of nighttime gripes, your general state of health appears to play a part in the frequency and nature of pain you can feel in dreams. A 2017 study found that pain in dreams occurs in around 1 percent of healthy people's dreams and 30 percent of those with acute and severe pain.
"In patients, pain dreams might be instigated by actual pain whereas for healthy persons pain dreams might be pain memories (self-experienced pain and/or seeing persons in pain)," wrote the study authors. "Future research should clarify how pain is processed during sleep. As patients with chronic pain experience negatively toned dreams, it will be beneficial to ask chronic pain patients about their dreams and, if necessary, offer specific treatment options like imagery rehearsal treatment."
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