How to feel pain when fantasizing without physical contact?

[Adrian Nuspun]

Can you make yourself feel pain just by concentrating on visualizing the event of receiving a kick?

Or other method that doesn't imply actual hitting, substances, electricity, etc.

[John Jones]

Well, this may be a short response with a really long answer, but I would say it's possible using Lucid Dreaming.  The reason I say it's a short reply with a long answer is because I could write pages and pages about it, but for now would just give you a summary.

Lucid dreaming sounds pretty surreal at first, but it is a very real thing; something I've only managed to do a handful of times.  However, some people find achieving it easier than others and with practice you can do it anytime you want (takes a good amount of practice and determination).  In short, Lucid dreaming is when you are aware that you are dreaming and using this awareness you can actually manipulate dreams to your liking.  Alongside being able to control your dreams, you will also have all senses active and you'll be able to remember dreams with a great deal of clarity (depending on how 'stable' you can maintain your awareness; it takes practice to have /total/ control).

So in a sense, using LD you can create any scenario you want and be able to enjoy it. Other than that, I suppose if you imagine an experience you had you can recall it to get a sense of what you felt at the time, but I don't think it would be the same.  Whereas with LD, I've heard people using it for dream sex with whoever they imagined up and remembering the sensations.  Although, I've never had that much control over a LD to share a personal experience.  I have had at least 1 or 2 LDs that I was mostly in control where I was busted and remembered the feeling.  Although when that happens I usually get too excited and wake up which can happen if you haven't practiced making the dreams more stable.

If you're interested in it, you can find lots of literature on it on the web, forums, and books.  Some can be a little wacky though because people take the experience to the extremes and make it really spiritual.  Which is fine I guess, but personally I am a very science-oriented person so I just keep to the objective view of LD.  I think there is even a forums dedicated to it so if I were you I'd start there. Other than lucid dreaming (which takes a few weeks to get good at if you're like me; could be easier for you), your best bet of experiencing the sensation would to be busted irl. 

Hope this helps answer your question.

[Adrian Nuspun]

Thanks for the response, I was thinking once about lucid dreaming but was scared about it.

What I managed to do with concentrating intensely on the scenario and immersing myself there is to subconsciously fall on my knees and groan when I imagine the kick to connect and the after effects.

One of the few exceptions being that I don't actually feel the pain I am so convinced to act on without trying.

I'll look into lucid dreaming and see what I can do with it. Thanks again for the answer.

P.S. I remember feeling a quit bit of pain from a woman pretending to kick and stopping just before impact which took me surprise, so it must be possible to emulate that somehow.

[Amber Gately]

Sure. I think this is where the differentiation between pain and nociception comes in.

The signal your nerves send to your brain to tell you that there is some sort of noxious stimuli present (such as a womans hand closing it's grip on your right testicle, distorting it between her fingers) is known as nociception. It only becomes "pain" when it has reached the thalamus and the brain has put that signal in some sort of emotional context and decided how it wants to present the awareness of the issue to your conscious mind and build your interpretation of the world around you at that moment with that new information.

At least that's a poorly explained difference between the concepts of pain and nociception. If we take that as true, that pain isn't itself a spike of substance P or glutamate through your periperal nervous system (but is instead this complex neurological sort of trick to try and force the conscious mind to act in a manner to help itself) then the noxious stimuli, the thing that could cause tissue damage and is being sensed by the nerves in your testicles isn't necessarily a vital part of the system.

Humans often feel "pain" by seeing others get hurt. I don't know if other animals experience similar sensations, whether it's an evolved trait in our highly social species or otherwise. But a lot of men will experience a very real phantom ball pain when seeing a woman knee a man in the testicles. People on this site may be a little desensitised to such stimuli (even accounting for their likely different take on the matter), but may feel similarly about something more extreme - say seeing a high resolution video of a stiletto slowly piercing a testicle and the resultant gore spilling out around it. The feelings such things emote in people are very real even if by watching they themselves are in no danger of tissue damage - have no nerves firing distress signals to percuss across their spinal cord and up to their thalamus.

Imagining situations could easily have the same result as watching it happen if you try hard enough.

[Allen Witts]

...3 years later, this is still really impressive.

[Maskedguy 1.7]

lucid Dream is something..(how to make it stable?)
how about hypnosis?

[Adrian Nuspun]

If I ever get a GF that knows hypnosis, I'l lask her to do this to me, sounds like fun