I'm in a bare room, feeling my left side and upper arm. Worries me, they're very sore--and the pain feels deep inside, like an infected wound. Hold my arm tight to my side. Between them, just below the armpit, I'm squeezing a big crumpled wad of plastic adhesive tape as a sort of crude bandage.

At last, I decide I have to look. I force myself to lift the arm and pull off the tape. Examine the skin as best I can.

Nothing!

And the pain is gone, too. Weird.

Hard to be sure, it's an awkward patch to reach, so I leave my body--I don't even notice at first because my spirit body looks just as solid to me, but I stand up and look down at a second sleeping me in the room, curled up naked. I examine this physical body from above and behind, where I otherwise couldn't.

Looks fine--slick with sweat as if feverish, but no sign of the infected wound I was sure I was hiding!

NOTES IN THE MORNING

• Pain in dream = On the TV show Xena, Joxer suspects they're dreaming, so Gabrielle pulls out one of his hairs to test it, thinking you can't feel pain in dreams. She's wrong, as painful dreams like this one prove.
• Shoulder: I got allergy shots yesterday; I feel tired and my left shoulder aches.
• Tape, bandage = "tapes", habits. So my familiar ways of coping with pain cause the remaining pain!
• No wounds = My therapist said "you've faced all your major traumas now"; guess my dreams agree.
• ACTION = relax, quit protecting your sore spots--they're healed. Let go!

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