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If the brain and body are not supposed to be able to remember enough to recreate actual pain sensations just by thinking about it, then how can I actually feel the pain when I dream about cutting my thumb? (It was an odd way to wake up - I was dozing after the alarm went off, and was dreaming about wiping something off a utility knife blade with my thumb; I pressed it too far over the edge, sliced it, and was awakened by the "pain".)
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Date: Jun. 16th, 2005 09:44 pm (UTC)From:Memory and pain (http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=141777)
Emotional Synthetic Forces (http://www.hqda.army.mil/ari/wordfiles/TR%201149.doc) (word document - I looked at it with the Google "view as HTML" thing - long, so try searching the text for the phrase "recall the sensation of pain" to find a relevant paragraph)
PainOnline (http://www.painonline.org/bad.htm) says only that pain is "notoriously hard" to remember, as opposed to actually impossible