The power of the subconcious

Sometimes my subconscious mind scares the crap out of me!  So I was in quite a bit of  pain last night.  Well I say pain.  It was more like being insanely uncomfortable.  I thought it was a pulled muscle in my lower left back but it wasn't tense/knotted.  I tried a heating pad, stretching and every possible sleeping position, including face down, @$$ up.  Stop laughing, I used to sleep like this as a child and it was rather comfy. 

I tossed and turned all night.  When I did doze off, I had insane dreams about the pain I was in.  Well the pain my brain said I should be in, realistically I was just uncomfortable.  One in particular  involved being stabbed in the back, repeatedly.  Not pleasant at all!  Sometime after 4AM, I fell off into a detailed dream scape.  I don't know where I was but I was in a futuristic medical lab.  There was a physician.  I don't remember his face but he was older and a bit grumpy.  He said he had something to help with the pain.  I was reluctant.  I didn't know who he was but he seemed genuine.  He said something about me being stubborn and he didn't have to help.  *sigh* I relented.  He gently touched my lower back and the side of my face and the pain immediately fell away.  In reality I went into a deep sleep because the next thing I knew my alarm was going off.  The dull ache returned immediately upon awakening (argh, annoying!).   I rolled to get out of bed and that is when I was hit with a strong wave of nausea combined with a pulsing abdominal pain also on my left.  "WTF is wrong with me?!?!"

I somehow managed to get ready for work.  I am still uncomfortable but I am okay.  My friend seems to think I may have a kidney infection and wants me to go to the Doc ASAP because apparently it can get REALLY bad, really fast.  But I don't feel that bad just having this annoying ache.  Of course, it has been pointed out that I have a higher than normal pain tolerance so maybe I should go to the doc just to be safe. 

So what do you think happened in my dream???  How did I block out the pain so that I could sleep?  That is weird, right?!?!?  I feel like that is something I shouldn't have been able to do.  Its like an example of mind over matter or something.  Maybe I watch/read too much sci-fi but I thought it was strange.