Question: Hi there,
I am having instructive thoughts because I am major OCD

the other night something touched my leg, in the moment I thought it was maybe my track pants brushing up against my leg. Now my heads trying to tell me that maybe I actually felt a pinching sensation I just thought it was a brushing sensation.

So thinking that I felt a pinch but thought it was a brushing.

I know this sounds stupid but these thoughts are crowding my head. I was wondering if you could tell me if our minds always associate the pain we feel with what it actually is. For example, if I was pinched would I know in my mind that I had just felt a pinch because I know from the past what a pinch actually feels like.

Would my mind switch up in the exact moment from feeling a pinch instead of a brush sensation or is this just my anxiety doing this.

Right after I felt the sensation on my leg, I tried to recreate the same feeling and in that moment I tried to recreate the brushing sensation, so does that mean that my mind likely knew it was a brushing sensation and not a pinching one?

Basically I’m asking you if I felt one feeling (brushing) is it possible that I felt (pinching) and just thought it was (brushing) or if I was pinched would I have for sure known that I was pinched.

Please ignore the attached photo

Thank you.

This question is all about a fear of bat bite.

If a bat were to bite me would I feel pain? I’m scared what if I felt a pinch but didn’t know in that moment that it was a pinch? I felt no pain but what if I felt a pinch that was not painful?

When we feel a pinch is it usually known that we have just felt a pinch? Are pinches usually painful? If awake and conscious would I have felt pain if a bat were to bite me?

Thank you.

Do our minds generally know the difference between feeling a pinch or feeling a different sensation?

I’m basically asking if something were to have pinched me would it register in my mind right away that I was just pinched?

Thank you. So if I was alert and hyper focused at the time of anything that could possibly touch me, I would have felt the difference between a pinch and a different sensation.