Trouble With My Dream Goal- need advice

[Sivason]

My remaining dream goal for the month has failed and it is likely going to have to be carried over to next month. Maybe an experienced dreamer can suggest ideas that would help. Or, if anyone has accomplished this dream goal, you may help me just by reassuring me someone has achieved it. My goal is to increase my dream control by incorperatting a vivid sense of smell into them. I have the other 4 senses involved, including hot and cold, though I am still fumbling a little with vividly tasting. I do not know how to go about this goal of smelling something vividly. Not just picturing that I smelled something, but really preceiving it. I have basically just shoved my nose into things and hoped for the best, but that is not working. Here is the first half of my latest Dream Journal entry so you can see how I have been going about it and failing. Any advice or related stories would be great help. ********LD10: 10th LD in the 8 days I have been placing my journal on this sight. I had no luck until it was time to get up. I told my wife I wanted to take 1 last stab at an LD, so she got up and I started the WILD process. This time it only took a few minutes. The swirling colors became a fairly clean image. I looked around and found myself standing in front of a historical building here in Boise, The Train Depot. It sits atop a hill and has a park attached. All of the buildings had been painted silver and the words on the buildings bell tower were all wrong. I looked at my hands to help me stablize> I usually do specific Mudra hand gestures to bring a little more control. I have usually seen my hands with the correct number of fingers, but this time one had two extra small ones. I rechecked the other and it sprouted a six finger. Oh well, I often am very picky when stablizing (see my last LD) but really did not have time for a marathon dream, as I knew my wife would have to wake me soon, so I said good enough and tried to decide what to do. My dream goal that I have so far failed to meet this month has been to vividly smell something. Not just picture that I did, but to actually incorperate my sense of smell in the dream. I decided that since I already had a nicely formed park, I would assume it contained flowers and go try to smell them. I casually strolled down by the pond and found bacholer button flowers there. I tried to smell them, sticking my nose right into them. I tried this for about a full minute. I actually did preceive a hint (a tiny hint) of real sent there. This is the first time I remember ever engaging my sense of smell so far. A tiny step forward, but the experience was maybe 5% of the waking sense of smell, so I do not consider that I met my goal. I walked back up the hill and came to a trailer where a DC of my mom was on the porch. I went inside and looked around. Nothing much of intrest, so I went in another room and decided it was time to stablize again. I did my hand mudras, and created the proper amount of fingers. Then I chanted 'OM' 3 times, to bring my sense of hearing into the dream. I went back out to the front room, where DC mom was on the phone. (I think my wife may have walked by the door on the phone, influencing the LD) I saw a box of oranges, and decided to try my dream goal again. I picked up an orange and tried to smell it. No luck here. DC mom was glaring and said into the phone she had no privacy. I found this seen boaring so randomly picked a short adventure I could attempt before my wife was going to wake me (we have somewhere to go this morning).************ Do I just have a mental block, or is there something extra difficult about this dream goal I am not realizing?

[hermine_hesse]

Are taking time to really smell things in WR? I would spend time focusing on aromatherapy and constantly experiencing smells, and then it should just come naturally in your dreams. Also, I seem to recall a few dreams where there was a vivid smell for me, and every time the smell was tinged with some emotional significance. Maybe try to incorporate this in your LD's, like smelling your favorite food, perfume on an article of clothing from someone you love, or your grandma's house when you were a kid.

[Sivason]

Are taking time to really smell things in WR? I would spend time focusing on aromatherapy and constantly experiencing smells, and then it should just come naturally in your dreams. Also, I seem to recall a few dreams where there was a vivid smell for me, and every time the smell was tinged with some emotional significance. Maybe try to incorporate this in your LD's, like smelling your favorite food, perfume on an article of clothing from someone you love, or your grandma's house when you were a kid. Wow, I think those are both wonderful ideas! I will try them both. Thanks, I think you are on to something.