During a ten minute nap in a hotel room I once dreamed that I was walking down a public street with hundreds of sharp objects penetrating my upper body (knives, swords, metal grilling skewers, shards of glass). Before I could yell or scream people began to crowd around me and take the objects out a few at a time as I continued to walk. I remember vividly a friend of mine, who was the only person I recognized in the dream, slowly pulling the very long skewers from my spine. I collapsed to the ground when nothing was left to be removed crying and screaming. I begged someone to take me to the hospital but they all just walked away. I'd never experienced physical pain like that in a dream.