pain

n.	1.	Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty. We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him. - Bacon. Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. - Dryden. None shall presume to fly, under pain of death. - Addison.
	2.	Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.
	3.	Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth. She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her. - 1 Sam. iv. 19.
	4.	Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. Also called mental pain. In rapture as in pain. - Keble.
	5.	See Pains, labor, effort. Bill of pains and penalties See under Bill. To die in the pain to be tortured to death. - Chaucer.
v. t.	1.	To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. [imp. & p. p. Pained (pānd); p. pr. & vb. n. Paining.]
	2.	To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him. Excess of cold, as well as heat, pains us. - Locke
	3.	To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as, a child's faults pain his parents. I am pained at my very heart. - Jer. iv. 19. To pain one's self to exert or trouble one's self; to take pains; to be solicitous. - Chaucer.

Noun	1.	pain - a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; "the patient developed severe pain and distension" Synonyms: hurting
	2.	pain - emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid; "the pain of loneliness" Synonyms: painfulness Antonyms: pleasure, pleasance - a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience; "he was tingling with pleasure"
	3.	pain - a somatic sensation of acute discomfort; "as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain" Synonyms: painful sensation
	4.	pain - a bothersome annoying person; "that kid is a terrible pain" Synonyms: pain in the neck, nuisance
	5.	pain - something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction" Synonyms: pain in the ass, pain in the neck, bother, botheration, infliction, annoyance
Verb	1.	pain - cause bodily suffering to Synonyms: ail, afflict, trouble
	2.	pain - cause emotional anguish or make miserable; "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school" Synonyms: anguish, hurt

To dream that you are in pain, signifies that you are being too hard on yourself with regards to a situation that was out of your control. It may also be a true reflection of real pain that exists somewhere in your body. Dreams can reveal and warn about health problems.abscess, aching, afflict, affliction, aggrieve, agonize, ague, ail, anemia, ankylosis, annoyance, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, assiduousness, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, backache, barb the dart, bite, bitterness, bleakness, bleeding, blennorhea, blow, bore, bother, bruise, burn, cachexia, cachexy, castigation, chafe, chastening, chastisement, cheerlessness, chill, chills, colic, comfortlessness, condign punishment, constipation, constrain, convulse, convulsion, correction, coughing, cramp, crucify, cut, cut up, cyanosis, depress, depression, deserts, despair, diarrhea, diligence, disciplinary measures, discipline, discomfort, discomposure, dismalness, dismay, disquiet, distressfulness, dizziness, dolor, drag, dreariness, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, effort, elbow grease, emaciation, excruciate, exertion, fainting, fatigue, ferule, fester, fever, fibrillation, flux, fret, gall, give pain, gnaw, grate, grieve, grievousness, grind, gripe, growth, harass, harrow, headache, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hurt, hurt the feelings, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, indigestion, industry, inflame, inflammation, inflict pain, infliction, injure, injury, insomnia, irk, irritate, irritation, itching, jaundice, joylessness, judgment, judicial punishment, kill by inches, labor, labored breathing, lacerate, lament, lamentability, lamentation, lesion, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, martyr, martyrize, misery, mourn, mournfulness, nasal discharge, nasty blow, nausea, necrosis, nemesis, nip, nuisance, ordeal, painfulness, pains, pains and punishments, paralysis, passion, pathos, pay, payment, penal retribution, penalty, penology, pest, pierce, pinch, pitiability, pitiableness, pitifulness, poignancy, prick, prolong the agony, pruritus, punishment, punition, put to torture, rack, rankle, rash, rasp, regrettableness, retribution, retributive justice, rheum, rub, sadden, sadness, sclerosis, scourge, sedulousness, seizure, sharpness, shock, skin eruption, smarting, sneezing, sore, sore spot, soreness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, spasm, stab, sting, stitch, strain, stress, stress of life, stroke, suffer, tabes, tachycardia, tender spot, throes, toil, torment, torture, travail, trial, tribulation, trouble, try, tumor, tweak, twist, twist the knife, upset, upset stomach, vertigo, vexation, vomiting, wasting, well-deserved punishment, what-for, while, woe, woebegoneness, woefulness, wound, wrench, wretchedness, wring