Farnboro John
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More likely that the body does realise and one of the aspects of shock - constriction of surface blood vessels, that's why you go white with shock - reduces blood loss from lesser vessels more than one might reasonably expect. Shock also delays the onset of pain (though there is an argument that it is pain that gives shock). But anyway, in relation to sharp clean cuts, think how a paper cut stings.I'm also under the impression that cuts are clean and sharp - less likely to immediately bleed out as edges seal off. Likewise a different kind of pain than other traumatic blunter injuries, hence not realising?
John