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I can't recall ever having felt physical pain in my dreams. In one of the more vivid ones I've had, I was riding a motorcycle, getting on the highway. Just as I got up to speed, I lost control of the bike. It bucked back and forth under me as I fought to control it. Finally, I wiped out and went sailing through the air, smacking into one of those big, green highway signs. All of the sensations were extremely vivd: the feel of the bike under me, the sensation of sailing through the air, the THWACK of my body hitting the sign, but somehow (thankfully) no pain at all.
My dreams don't often linger long after I wake up. I've almost never had trouble going back to sleep, even after a particularly bad nightmare. The only one that I really recall sticking with me for a long time after waking up was very strange. The whole dream was a head-and-shoulders close up of a black man, wearing what looked like traditional African or maybe Caribbean garb. He was speaking in a language I couldn't understand, but somehow I had the impression that he meant me harm. That was all there was to it, as I was woken up by my alarm for school, but for some reason I couldn't get that dude out of my head for an hour or maybe more. Weird.
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