Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24924293-20140921164548/@comment-25094659-20141114230934

Fluttergon wrote: In the physical world, Bill can't feel pain, because as he said in Sock Opera:  "Welcome to the mindscape, kid!  Without a vessel to possess, you're basically a ghost!". So that means that in the physical world, Bill is basically a ghost, and ghosts can't feel pain, right? Right. So Bill wouldn't be able to feel pain. And he doesn't appear physically anyway, because as we all know, whenever Bill appears, everything turns black and white, suggesting time was stopped (since Bill can manipulate time).

BUT, in Dreamscaperers, he was in Stan's mind, and minds are where he is most powerful at. Since he got "hurt" during the battle, that means he can only feel pain when he is in someone's mind. In the mind, he isn't PHYSICAL, but he is a DREAM demon, so when he's in the mind (which is where he basically belongs), he can feel pain because of that (thus why he ended that battle quickly after it started getting out of control). Stan's mind was a form of the dreamscape though, that's why it was called "Dreamscaperers". I think it was just an inconsistincy. Every show, expecially one as full of content as Gravity Falls, will have some, though I'm sure most inconsistancies will just be between season 1 and season 2, like this one is.