Physical symptoms after nightmares

Lady is a tramp

Been having horrible lucid nightmares where I'm trapped, in various buildings, I know I'm asleep and just can't wake myself up. It gets to the stage where I'm basically throwing myself against the walls of the building (in the dream) in the hope that I'll hurt myself enough to wake me. They're really horrible dreams where awful things are happening.

Just woken up from this, again. And I feel really, really nauseous and am getting flashing headaches, over and over. Like a zinging sensation in my brain, happens a few times but only lasts a second each time.

Is it normal to get sick and headachey immediately after a nightmare?

I feel really crappy right now.

PLL

I keep getting psychogenic pain after lucid nightmares. I've woken up on multiple occasions with pain in different parts of my body - toothache, pains in a surgical scar and a knee that felt like it was on fire.
I must be half asleep because the pain doesn't worry me and I feel like I can't move. After a few minutes I go back to sleep and when I wake there is no pain whatsoever.

This has only happened in the last 2 months and I believe because I'm pregnant. It's a very strange situation I will be talking to my doctor about this week. A little research seems it isn't anything too much to worry about, pregnancy hormones and all.

Your nightmares sound stressful if you have to battle out of them. I think the doctor is the best place to go in all honesty. In the grand scheme of things pain after dreams isn't that uncommon.

maggiepip

If I wake out of a bad nightmare I get this terrible painful sensation all over my skin. Its very difficult to describe but its like all the nerve endings on my skin are exposed and raw and thousands of razor blades are kind of cutting me. Thats the best way I can articulate it. It only lasts about 3 minutes but is really really horrible. I have no idea why this happens.