Is it normal to feel pain in a dream and still feel it when you wake up?
This morning I woke up from a strange dream where a man tried to attack me with an axe but was only able to cut my thumb since I supposedly used it to try and stop the axe and when I woke I felt a sting in my thumb exactly where I was cut by the axe in my dream. The pain and the sting was real since I accidentally cut myself a month ago and the sensation matches the feeling I got in my thumb.