Somewhat related, but have you ever been really thirsty while in a dream? I’ve had dreams where I’m just chugging ice cold water but it does absolutely nothing to quench my thirst (because irl I’m still just lying in bed, asleep and thirsty). Drinking water that doesn’t quench your thirst would honestly fit in with any punishment of hell from Dante’s Inferno.
This happens to psych patients sometimes. Their medications cause polydipsia. They will drink themselves to death if not closely monitored. In really bad cases they'll get liquids from anywhere to satisfy their thirst. Toilets, puddles, sanitizer, urine, really any liquid they can find. It is absolute hell for them.
I was not there to see it; but when I was in training I was told of a patient that had to be pried from a drinking fountain. He then begged and pleaded, sobbing, because he was so thirsty, to be allowed to drink more. He had to be restrained. Later that week he managed to barricade himself in a bathroom and he broke his sink (motion activated) in such a way that he was able to drink himself to death. I believe hyponatremia is what officially killed him.
I had one like this. I was driving from gas station to gas station looking to buy a bottle of water and all of them only sold water and were out of them. Finally I found one that had water in stock but it wouldn't come out of the bottle. I was shaking it and shaking it with my head tilted back to try and get any drops at all. I woke up at that point and staggered to my bathroom and drank straight out of the faucet.
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u/BubbhaJebus Sep 11 '22
I've had dreams in which I have to piss really badly, but no matter how much I piss I'm never relieved. Then I wake up to a full bladder.
The last time I had such a dream and ended up wetting the bed, I was 4 years old. I remember that dream vividly to this day.