I don't experience this often but when I do, it really sticks out in my mind, and I'm usually able to remember details about my dreams more when this sort of thing happens in them. I won't go into all of them but the most recent one I had less than a week ago.
I don't know why but in my dream I was trying frantically to get a dead spider that had somehow gotten lodged under the skin in my shin removed, and after what I think was the third serious attempt to get someone to perform surgery to do so, I instead re-lived the experience of a needle going into my thumb from a year and a half ago when I got hit by a car and my thumbnail partially broke off and needed to have the blood drained from underneath it so the entire nail wouldn't be lost. Even though they numbed it, that tiny little sharp sensation still manages to get through although it isn't so uncomfortable that you can't tolerate it.
I can't say whether anything happening to my body was going on that triggered this, like an actual spider biting my thumb (I woke up and saw no signs of such) since I know certain external stimuli can influence dreams, but when it means you actually experience tactile sensation while you're unconscious and in various stages of sleep, it really goes against the idea that things in your dream can't hurt you. Although I do remember in tenth grade I had a dream where I blew my head off with a shotgun and didn't feel that, I just woke up with a shock (it was either shotgun-suicide or get fucked up by the Nemesis from the Resident Evil series, so I opted for the lesser of two evils, in case you're wondering why that particular thing happened in one of my dreams.)
Anyone else occasionally (or frequently?) able to remember vividly experiencing physical sensation while you're dreaming? Any lucid dreamers try to experiment with this?
I don't know why but in my dream I was trying frantically to get a dead spider that had somehow gotten lodged under the skin in my shin removed, and after what I think was the third serious attempt to get someone to perform surgery to do so, I instead re-lived the experience of a needle going into my thumb from a year and a half ago when I got hit by a car and my thumbnail partially broke off and needed to have the blood drained from underneath it so the entire nail wouldn't be lost. Even though they numbed it, that tiny little sharp sensation still manages to get through although it isn't so uncomfortable that you can't tolerate it.
I can't say whether anything happening to my body was going on that triggered this, like an actual spider biting my thumb (I woke up and saw no signs of such) since I know certain external stimuli can influence dreams, but when it means you actually experience tactile sensation while you're unconscious and in various stages of sleep, it really goes against the idea that things in your dream can't hurt you. Although I do remember in tenth grade I had a dream where I blew my head off with a shotgun and didn't feel that, I just woke up with a shock (it was either shotgun-suicide or get fucked up by the Nemesis from the Resident Evil series, so I opted for the lesser of two evils, in case you're wondering why that particular thing happened in one of my dreams.)
Anyone else occasionally (or frequently?) able to remember vividly experiencing physical sensation while you're dreaming? Any lucid dreamers try to experiment with this?
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
