Usually, when someone has a stomachache or a headache, they don’t feel it when they’re sleeping. When they wake up, they feel it again.
EDIT: Maybe i’m just a heavy sleeper lol
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I think the other responses so far completely misunderstand the question at hand. Let me try to give an example of what I believe OP is really asking.
Suppose you are sleeping and you develop a stomach ache in the middle of the night. Your nerves are firing, the stomach is sending the signals, but the dreaming consciousness isn’t receiving it. You are on a dream adventure and there’s no semblance of stomach ache in your world, even though the nerves are firing and the brain is receiving.
If the pain gets bad, you will wake up, just like if someone slapped you. Your consciousness will only start knowing about the pain after waking up, at which point the pain is very apparent even though 10 seconds earlier there was no pain as far as the conscious part of you could tell while on that dream adventure.
So why is it that there is apparently an on/off switch for the conscious feeling of pain? I think that is OPs question. It’s not about how nerves behave.
I think the other responses so far completely misunderstand the question at hand. Let me try to give an example of what I believe OP is really asking.
Suppose you are sleeping and you develop a stomach ache in the middle of the night. Your nerves are firing, the stomach is sending the signals, but the dreaming consciousness isn’t receiving it. You are on a dream adventure and there’s no semblance of stomach ache in your world, even though the nerves are firing and the brain is receiving.
If the pain gets bad, you will wake up, just like if someone slapped you. Your consciousness will only start knowing about the pain after waking up, at which point the pain is very apparent even though 10 seconds earlier there was no pain as far as the conscious part of you could tell while on that dream adventure.
So why is it that there is apparently an on/off switch for the conscious feeling of pain? I think that is OPs question. It’s not about how nerves behave.
My nocturnal leg cramps sure as hell show up in my dreams, till they get bad enough to wake me.
My nocturnal leg cramps sure as hell show up in my dreams, till they get bad enough to wake me.
My nocturnal leg cramps sure as hell show up in my dreams, till they get bad enough to wake me.
I read in the book ‘Why We Sleep’ that theres a mechanism in your brain which shuts off nerve feedback from your spine. Some people experience sleep paralysis and this is when you have become conscious but for some reason that mechanism still hasnt allowed nerve feedback to travel from spine to brain. So you are awake but you cant move your body.I think it has to do with the thalamus.
“The thalamus acts as a relay for information from the senses to the cerebral cortex (the covering of the brain that interprets and processes information from short- to long-term memory). During most stages of sleep, the thalamus becomes quiet, letting you tune out the external world.”
I read in the book ‘Why We Sleep’ that theres a mechanism in your brain which shuts off nerve feedback from your spine. Some people experience sleep paralysis and this is when you have become conscious but for some reason that mechanism still hasnt allowed nerve feedback to travel from spine to brain. So you are awake but you cant move your body.I think it has to do with the thalamus.
“The thalamus acts as a relay for information from the senses to the cerebral cortex (the covering of the brain that interprets and processes information from short- to long-term memory). During most stages of sleep, the thalamus becomes quiet, letting you tune out the external world.”
I read in the book ‘Why We Sleep’ that theres a mechanism in your brain which shuts off nerve feedback from your spine. Some people experience sleep paralysis and this is when you have become conscious but for some reason that mechanism still hasnt allowed nerve feedback to travel from spine to brain. So you are awake but you cant move your body.I think it has to do with the thalamus.
“The thalamus acts as a relay for information from the senses to the cerebral cortex (the covering of the brain that interprets and processes information from short- to long-term memory). During most stages of sleep, the thalamus becomes quiet, letting you tune out the external world.”
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