Have you ever been INJURED in a DREAM?

[AviatorTom]

A few days ago, I woke up in the middle of the night from a scary dream. I was running across a desert, trying to get away from a scary invisible creature. I got myself back to sleep, but when I awoke in the morning, my calves and feet hurt. It's been three days, and my calves and feet still hurt.

It's like running in the dream hurt my calves and feet.

Has one of your dreams ever resulted in you getting hurt? Tell us about it.

[zeitgeist057]

I've had many, many dreams where I've been injured. One dream I was shot in the stomach with arrow (s) and was laying there dying and the rest of the dream was this really long sequence of my life flashing before my eyes only it was so long I forgot that I was dying until the end when I came back to waking up in the bushes with a bloody stomach and ready to pass out again from blood loss.

Another time I was an immortal type god only a sort of demon samurai killing everyone around me and wreaking havoc and all these warriors and ninjas were trying to stop me and attack me and kill me but no one could stop me but they kept attacking and their knives, shiruken, swords, &c. would cut me but I would heal but of course it would sting a bit but I kept murdering left and right popping their heads off or imploding their insides with my superpowers. Eventually one of them got me in my one "Achilles heel" weak spot (my stomach again) and I died.

Lots of other dreams I've been tortured like in an interrogation room with horrendous methods, or simply shot. I had a dream recently where I was in a war fighting with a flamethrower and I was lighting people up but a soldier got to me eventually actually it was a combo because one popped me in the shoulder a few times before I managed to light him up and then another soldier laid a bunch of rounds straight into my skull. The bullets all felt like dull lead thumps, I didn't really feel them the way I normally would, I forget why, maybe it was a simulation or game, or I may have been a robot or something.

But yes, I have been injured more times that I can remember in dreams.

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[OlderAndWiser]

Perhaps having muscle cramps is what triggered your dream, instead of your dream causing you to have sore legs and feet.

[Sour-rose]

In a way... yes and No.

No- i didn't hurt myself physically anyway from said dream.

Yes- most of my dreams are weird and... brings a message. Once I got stabbed in the dark but with no chest pains. But this one time two men stood over my bed and one commanded the other that was holding the shot gun "Do it." I woke up instantly to lean over my bed with my mouth open. It felt like i tasted a shock of metal and battery in my mouth. It faded away but... fuk dude...

[SandandWaves]

I have had way too many to count where I got hurt, and woke with pain the same place I was hurt in my dream, of bruises, chocking, soreness..

[SandandWaves]

thanks..

... because while asleep... most of the time I am physically acting out what I am defending myself from like how you were running... you are moving your legs while asleep, who knows you may have even gotten up ran around.. it happens to me. I have a ton of sleep disorders. It's tough. 6 days ago, I woke up with huge bruises on my legs and upper arms--dont remember the dream that night.

[FunkyMonkee]

When I was little, I was dreaming of my grandmother's dog, Fluff who was part Collie and part something else but, she had very long fluffy hair, hence the name. In the dream, we were walking along in a huge field of grass somewhere and came upon a very deep hole in the ground! It was probably 15' wide and at least 20 or 30' deep. I didn't see the hole as we were coming up to it and fell in! I'm lying at the bottom of the hole yelling up to Fluff to go get help (like she was Lassie) but, instead of going to get help, she just stood there on the edge barking down at me like she wanted to come down but was afraid to jump and the whole time she's barking at me, she's kinda prancing and stomping around at the edge of the hole and doesn't seem to realize that her doing that is causing all this dirt at the edge of the hole to come falling down on me and large "balls" of dirt are falling into my mouth as I'm yelling up to her! I was having trouble breathing because of the dirt in my mouth!!! I gradually woke up to find that my lungs were badly congested and I was having another bout of pneumonia! My third and, hopefully, last one!!

[dustybiker]

Yes. Lots of times. My dreams are usually action adventure movies , can never tell I’m dreaming. I have to be woken up out of them a lot of the time.

One I was strapped to a chair in a warehouse with a bomb and dead mans detonation device taped to my hand. I can still remember the sweat running down me and the smells too.

[mermaidrocketship]

At this point, I can’t remember what the situation was in the dream, but I do remember intense pain. Within the dream, I realized I was asleep. When I finally was able to wake myself, I wasn’t in any pain at all. I was convinced I’d fallen off my bed or hurt myself in some way, but no. It was bizarre. I’d heard you can’t feel pain in a dream, but you absolutely can. It’s so scary.

[Paul_in_Indy]

In college, sleeping on the bottom bunk, I had a dream that involved a physical attack. I struck out with my fist and put some deep gauges into my hand and arm against the bed springs above me. I think that I must have been waking up already and that’s why I wasn’t paralyzed by the dream (?).

[petitedollbabee]

Many times. Usually in dreams my bones will get broken, I’ll get cut open, or limbs will get cut off. One time I had a dream where my arm got ran over by a steam roller and when I woke up my shoulder was dislocated. Had to get my boyfriend to pop it back into place.

[JustinTheGreat]

I definitely have. Can’t really remember any dream off the top of my head right now though.

Lately I’ve been having multiple dreams every single night. My dreams are always super weird and vivid too.
Just last night I had a strange dream about a cannibal killing and eating people (probably because of Jeffrey Dahmer trending right now)

[Chazmatazz269]

I’ve bit myself in my sleep but i’m not certain it was ever associated with dream. Sleep apnea; half-ass waking up and catching your breath can be damaging! Ell oh ell! I’ve been hurt in dreams, but i don’t recall experiencing waking effects from it.

[FilmGuy93]

Yeah. I once had a dream where a group of women seduced me, handcuffed me to a bed, acted like we were about to have sex, and then nailed my penis and balls to a board and then ripped them off.

[Amy10223]

I've never gotten hurt, but I have kicked out in a dream trying to get rid of something scary such as in your dream. That's when I've woken myself up.

[ProVox]

I've fallen out of bed a few times fighting in a dream, usually a high kick that does it But hey, whatever it takes to protect my family from zombies is worth it.😆

[AddylynnNightingale]

I've gotten some scratches before, but nothing major. In my dreams I usually rule.

[Kori1236]

Achey yeah but mostly sleep paralysis, I’d be in that half awake half asleep dream state unable to move and being cut open.

[BCRanger10]

One time, I got attacked by velociraptors in a dream. I woke up screaming!

[NathanDavis]

in my dreams? yes... often

in real life, because of my dreams? not quite, no

[Guy13]

No I have not. You should lay off the Tequila “good sleep 😴 ” rheumatism medicine.
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[exitseven]

I have dove out of bed a few times and ended up on the floor. I never really got hurt though.

[Andres77]

A Komodo dragon bit my foot in a dream when I was 6. I told my brother to tell my mom I’d be ok. and I faded out.

[ChefPapiChulo]

Yeah man I remember when I got stabbed in a dream. Scariest thing ever. Honestly, it’s the worst dream I’ve ever had and I’ll probably remember it forever.

[qwert1234]

I have been shot and stabbed in a dream. If I recall correctly, I died too.

[DeadlyCreed]

Yes, it was weird cuz I couldn’t stand and collapsed then woke up in a hospital (in my dream) then when I woke up irl I was just in bed

[shortster]

I have never been hurt in real life from things that have happened in my dreams. I have even died in my dreams.

[TheMoralCrusader]

Freddy Krueger must have took a slice out of them while you were sleeping.

[HippieVeganJewslim]

Not which I can remember. Some dreams stay in my mad memory but most dreams fade. The average person dreams three dreams per sleep, and doesn’t recall all of them.

[jimmy2]

Carp I ran all night with cops after me I woke up so tired

[BJP21]

I've woken up like I had a stroke, I was yelling, after having a nightmare of something attacking me.

[Grubhub]

No but that guy plays less and Han Derrick rose lol

[DesiUwU]

i die in my dreams all the time

[BLP11520]

No but about fell out of bed

[Agape93]

Yeap, and killed

[Fireguy17]

no, not that I remember.

[boobliker]

i dont remember being so

[Iron_Man]

I don’t recall that ever