Granted! You discover that the chair isn't real *none of this is real*. You're living in a simulation. Once you know that, you're able to convince yourself that the nerve pain isn't real either, and you stop feeling it. It turns out you can 'turn off' pain signals, but there isn't really anything else you can control. You're fine with living in a simulation though, as long as the simulation is consistent... Then one day you find yourself carrying a bag of bricks, and you think "where did these come from?" And you feel an irresistible urge to stack them diagonally into a staircase...
I wish I had blueberry waffles with syrup.