[Jimmy_Leppard]

Hi, guys.

I guess I should explain what I mean by ''weird dream situation''. Last night I had a dream that I was in the Army and my troops were going to the war or something. Anyway, the dream itself is not important at all. What is important is the situation that occured in my dream which is really interesting to me.

I'm fighting in this war as a ground soldier and I'm shooting at the enemy soldiers etc. etc. However, in one moment, I get shot in my leg. And here's the weird part and the question relating that weird situation. (Just for the record, it wasn't a ''lucid dream'' which means I wasn't aware that I was sleeping and that that it was all fiction, but I was in a complete control of myself.)
Now, when I got shot in the leg, it was painful and kinda disturbing.

So, my question is: Is it possible to feel something in your dream the way it actually is even if you haven't felt it in your real life? For those who don't understand my question, I'll explain. In my real life, I have never been shot in any part of the body and I have no idea how it feels to get shot and have a bullet stuck in your leg or in any other place. That means I'm not familiar with that kind of pain. It bugged me since the moment I woke up. Is it really possible for our brain or our unconscious mind to represent us a feeling in a dream that we haven't yet felt? And I'm not sure if that bullet in my leg really feels that painful in real life like in my dream.

So, is it possible for a human being who hasn't been shot in real life to feel the ''real'' pain in the dream? That question can apply to any situation. Like for example, is it possible for a boy or a girl who have never kissed before in real life to feel the real kiss in their dream or for a teenager who has never smoked weed to experience all the real side-effects of weed smoking in his dream?


I appreciate any thoughts.

This post has been edited by Jimmy_Leppard on Saturday, Jun 30 2012, 08:32

[Scharkey]

Your dreams are a collection of memories mashed together. You've never been shot before so what you felt is probably not how it would really feel, but your own imagining, which could be close but not quite to the full extent if that makes any sense.

[Jimmy_Leppard]

QUOTE (Scharkey @ Saturday, Jun 30 2012, 08:38)

Your dreams are a collection of memories mashed together. You've never been shot before so what you felt is probably not how it would really feel, but your own imagining, which could be close but not quite to the full extent if that makes any sense.

Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking. I have no memory or experience in being shot, so I don't think I can quite imagine or feel it the way it actually feels.

[Mati]

Same thing happened to me, although I've been ''shot'' in the chest. I wasn't shot before though.
It was just imagination.

[zoo3891]

No, how would it be? As Scharkey said, your mind makes your dreams, and your mind can only create what has been experienced previously. I have read that your dream can combine certain feelings to get what it thinks something might be like, so say you've never been poked with a burning coal on a stick, but have been burned and poked on different occasions, the dream could combine both of those sensations to create a new sensation of being poked with a burning coal, although I've also read that these sensations can be disjointed so you might get poked in the knee and burned in the face, or the burn might be delayed from the poking, etc.

[fireguy109]

Think of it this way. If you're a virgin but you dream you're having sex with a dozen supermodels, will the feeling be exactly as it would be in real life? My guess is no, your brain fills it in with what it expects the situation will feel like. That's why some people have scary dreams and sh*t before operations but it ends up not hurting that bad, because your brain is filling in what you think it will feel like and not how it will actually feel.

[HydraulicWaRiOr]

I've sort of had the same dream. I was in a post apocalyptic world and I was blown to bits by a grenade. I guess it was a result of too much damn Fallout. Lay off the CoD


[Supreme]

[oysterbarron]

No doubt you've probably experienced pain before. Mix that with the emotions you would feel from getting shot and i would imagine your pretty close. I dreamt i did coke once even though ive never experimented with coke. The dream felt pretty real as ive never had a high like that before! The only other way to find out is by getting shot!

[Adept]

QUOTE (Jimmy_Leppard @ Saturday, Jun 30 2012, 08:29)

So, my question is: Is it possible to feel something in your dream the way it actually is even if you haven't felt it in your real life?

The way it actually is? Is? That is a weird question. What "is"? "Is" it what you feel with your sense organs? Should I use parenthesis? Your dreams are what? Physical? No? Then how do you know they are real? You don't? You crazy... No, I'm just kidding. Look in the direction the dream is taking you. Search where the questions lead you.

[Shyabang Shyabang]

I agree with what you all said. I usually don't pay much attention to my dreams.
It's the unusual ones that make me wonder. I dreamt of my classmates whom I used to meet before I moved. I haven't met nor thought about them for a long time. Why did I dream about them recently? Is it regret? Maybe I should've been more open to them. I was a very shy kid. I rarely think of them when I'm awake probably because of the distractions in my busy life.