I was actually having a conversation about this with my friend yesterday. While she claims to never feel anything in dreams, I feel things quite vividly, like you especially pain, and even once I wake up. I've sat up in the middle of the night feeling everything from a bee-sting up to places where I've been shot. The latter is somewhat interesting because I've never been shot with anything more than a paintball but when I describe the feeling to either of my grandfathers, both having fought in and been shot in battle, they agree that what I'm feeling is the exact same thing. One night, after having dreamt of being strangled, I woke up, alone, feeling the blood pulsing through the hands around my neck for a full fifteen minutes before it faded away. As for the whole not being able to die in dreams thing, I've yet to experience it, and don't look forward to it either.
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