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[oakenguy]

The other night I dreamed I tasted something. I was in a supermarket and they were giving out little samples of sausage, and the one I tried had been oddly spiced--cinnamon, but with new flavors and undertones that kept emerging for several seconds after I started chewing. It was quite nice, actually.

My point is, it's the first time I can ever remember tasting anything in a dream. My dreams are 99.99% just sight and sound. Not that I'm complaining, but I never really thought to wonder before why my other senses were disengaged, and whether things could be different.

So, what are your dreams like? Do you smell or taste things in them?

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[devina.livejournal.com]

I don't remember tasting or smelling, but I know what you mean about it being weird. I distinctly recall one dream where I was feeling someone else's hand, and I woke up being almost amazed by it.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

It's very rare, but I do occasionally taste and smell things in my dreams. I had a vivid dream about eating pancakes and maple syrup, and birthday cake once.

When I was very little I dreamed I got dog doo in my mouth and couldn't get it out. You don't want a dream like that.

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

Sight, sound, smell, taste, touch.

These are not, however, the only senses. The way I tell the difference between a simple vivid dream and an actual astral experience is that dreams are limited to the above -- when I'm fully astrally projecting I also have balance, spatial position, energy sense, empathy and (on the rare occasions I remember it) weak sonar.

I am a strange critter.

[gilana]

I don't often taste in dreams, but I do remember one very vivid one where I was eating bacon, realized what it was (I keep kosher), and was frantically scraping it off my tongue as I woke up.

[malterre.livejournal.com]

My dreams are so vivid I have to sometimes go to a mirror to reassure myself that I am, in fact, myself. I fly, I can shapeshift, I can tell you the temperature, how the air smelled, the complete personality of the people with whom I interact.

It's the *recurring* and *continuing* ones that are so haunting because I really feel like I am part of Neil Gaiman's Dream Country.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

I think your psyche may be preparing you to become a professional chocolatier.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

More than once I have woken up from a dream and thought, "I MUST COOK THAT". The last one was a lemon-spice cheesecake with a gingersnap crust. I haven't made it yet. I didn't even know you COULD make a gingersnap crust, but apparently you can.

[bohostar.livejournal.com]

How cool! That's definitely a good omen for your evolving palate.

I don't remember ever smelling or tasting in dreams.

But I do occasionally dream in cartoon.
Not animation, but cartoon.
Like old school looney tunes.
Replete with corny music.

Oh, yeah, and sometimes my dreams have a score.
Sometimes I just compose folky type stuff.
And you should know, despite my uke addiction, I'm not much of a musician in real life.

[khep.livejournal.com]

The other day I had the same experience, I tasted something and it was really vivid and just kept transforming into deeper pleasant tastes. I don't remember what of, but I know I liked it. I don't remember the last time I smelled something in a dream though... and when I was little I had a dream that I was running away from mac trucks filled with radioactive space debree- if you got close to them they'd make you explode from the heat- and at the end I got a little too close and my chest heated up to a point where it hurt. When I woke up my chest was still hot (from the inside) and it took a couple minutes for it to go away.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

I dunno...given the meat consumed, my psyche might just be reacting to the sudden high levels of vegan food I've beeen eating recently.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Okay, this is fascinating...are you just viewing the cartoon dreams, or are you participating?

[bohostar.livejournal.com]

Mostly just viewing, but in one I was playing the piano and while I was mostly looking at the bird who was singing along, sometimes I glanced down at my hands on the keyboard because the keys were leaping around.

So I've never seen myself in cartoon, you know what I mean? Like, the way you don't see yourself in daily life unless you walk past a mirror and look or catch a glimpse of your relfection off a window.

[sistahraven.livejournal.com]

Not strange at all - I use a similar means to differentiate between dreams and spiritual or astral experiences.

And on a Bri note - cinnamon is a great compliment to the traditional spices of many sausages. Try adding just a wee touch of cinnamon into a sausage-based red sauce... YUM.

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

It's mostly the sonar that led to the "strange critter" comment. ^_^

[eroika.livejournal.com]

I don't recall my dreams nearly as much as you do, wish I did. However the times that I have I would say that yes I do smell, taste, feel etc etc in my dreams.

[sistahraven.livejournal.com]

lol. There are people who don't use sonar? ;)

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

Apparently! Most people look at me like I'm crazy!

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean (though now it's fun to imagine what cartoon-you looks like...I keep coming up with an odd cross between Olive Oyl, Jessica Rabbit and Max Fleischer's Lois Lane).

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

When you have a dog waking you up at 5AM because he needs his ears scritched, you'll discover your dreams stay nice and fresh in your memory. :)

[elkster.livejournal.com]

I have been able to smell things in dreams, but never had the taste experience. You know, I never even thought about that.

[mythfish.livejournal.com]

I don't recall ever tasting or smelling anything in my dreams. I do have a sense of touch often enough that it doesn't seem odd, but it's mostly tied into sensations my body is actually feeling while I sleep, I think.

[moria923.livejournal.com]

I've always found it slightly frustrating that I can't taste in dreams. I'll be dreaming about eating something yummy, but they I don't get the taste!

[morgan-lafaye.livejournal.com]

I've tasted,smelled,or felt stuff in my dreams all my life. Unless I'm really stressed I can even change the direction my dream is taking. Useful when heading into a nightmare.

[eroika.livejournal.com]

LOL, good point!!

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

I'm doing it tonight! With kahlua cheesecakes this time around, but lemon-spice sounds yummy.