Thread: Can you taste things in your dreams?

Hmm. I have seen this thread before... So familiar...

I once savoured a strange dish, a dessert of some sort, that consisted of crushed cereals and mashed strawberries sprinkled with something which looked like brown sugar. I remember the taste well, and to my surprise it was a very succulent dish.
However, if I may digress, have any of you ever sniffed the scent of a dead zombie kitten in a dream before? If not, let me assure you it was not very pleasant at all. Hm, right, I think I'll elaborate on that later.

this is going to disgust some of you. if you have a weak stomach, quit reading now.

i used to have this recurring dream where i was vomiting feces and i could literally taste the shit as it came out of my mouth. it was disgusting, and every single time i had that dream, i woke up and ran to the bathroom to brush my teeth like a quadrillion times.

icky.

so, yeah, you can taste things in your dreams... even if you'd rather not.

Originally Posted by fleur de lune

i used to have this recurring dream where i was vomiting feces and i could literally taste the shit as it came out of my mouth. it was disgusting, and every single time i had that dream, i woke up and ran to the bathroom to brush my teeth like a quadrillion times.

Well, one thing is certain: that's one dreadfully unkind dream. It must have been horrendous, fleur de lune, I can imagine. I wonder, though, what could have triggered those revolting dream experiences, for I haven't dreamt anything that even draws near those levels of revulsions of which you speak of.

I hope those kinds of dreams rarely find you, though!

Originally Posted by Hyperborean

Well, one thing is certain: your dreams haven't been kind with you.

gotta agree with you there.

Originally Posted by Hyperborean

It must have been horrendous, fleur de lune, I can imagine. I wonder, though, what could have triggered those revolting dream experiences, for I've never dreamt anything that manages to come close to what you've experienced.

i have no idea what i did to deserve that!



luckily i haven't had this dream in quite some time. thank god.

I can, but it usually tastes bad for me.

Sometimes you can, but I find generally I don't experience taste but experience things like sweetness, or saltyness, bitterness, or sourness.

I recently seem to definitly taste things, yes. But not often is it really good like some of you say.

I seem to only semi taste it in my mouth, but I can't feel it going down my throat. Maybe I just need to work on it more.

omg that is so awesome, i'm going to eat myself to death when i'm able to

I generally don't eat in my dreams and when food has presented itself in the past, I've found it difficult to actually eat.
To be honest, I've never tried eating while lucid though, perhaps I'll put that on the list of things to do...

Yes. Dream food is good and it doesn't leave one overstuffed.

I once (much younger) dreamed of a cookie, when I was about to eat it, I woke up.

Originally Posted by Finlander

I once (much younger) dreamed of a cookie, when I was about to eat it, I woke up.

Lol mega bump.

I'm sort of jealous. I can neither taste or smell in my dreams, lucid or not.

I guess it could be worse. I've had people tell me that they don't dream in color!! I was floored by this since my dreams are often more colorful than real life... That must really suck!

Originally Posted by AgentSmith

I'm sort of jealous. I can neither taste or smell in my dreams, lucid or not.

I wouldn't worry. I can pretty much guarantee that as lucid dreaming becomes more common and you have regular opportunity to engage your senses in the dream world, phenomenons like taste and smell will increase.

i dont think i have ever ate in a dream befor? or at least i dont remember

I've actually had lucid dreams for about 20 years now (they come naturally for some reason).. too many to count.. and while eating isn't that common for me, I've never tasted or smelled anything even once :-\ . I do have very poor smell in real life, so I don't know if that is a factor. I've also never used any WILD techniques, only DILDs... so maybe that is a factor as well.

As for my other senses, touch is very simplified (not texture), but it exists. Hearing is about the same. My sight can be crisper than real life (my real eyes don't work great), and I can have really intense color perception... but that is where it stops.

I suppose it could be a physical difference, or maybe even a lack of "taste imagination".

A few months ago I dreamt I've had the best barbeque ever.

I also once had a dream where I ate some of my favorite nuts, and they tasted disgusting. I couldn't eat them for months because of the dream.

I want experiences like some of you have had lol. I have tasted several things in my dreams but usually the taste is nothing like what it should be, not very strong, and not very good either. It always makes me wonder what my brain is doing when I wake up from eating a burger that tasted like licking a penny (just an example, I can't think of anything specific).

oh hell yeah. Recently in the past 2 or so months ive been having a lot of dreams about food (usually from passing out early, skipping a meal). The main theme of the dreams will always be food. whether it be me in a restaurant, or wandering around a mall trying various foods in the food court. I always wake up due to hunger.

funny thing is in the dreams, the food is SO delicious. the perfect burger, or ice cream, or bowl of noodles, or mcdonalds french fries etc.

I can. I had one lucid dream in which I ate yogurt and drank a beer. The yogurt tasted exactly like it does in real life. The beer tasted exactly how I like my beer to taste.

I ate a weird type of jam once. It was a non-lucid dream and I don't remember it clearly, but I know that it didn't taste much like real jam and was very delicious.

I would encourage anyone who doesn't have a sense of taste or smells in dreams to work on it. In one of my more recent dreams, I ate what appeared to be the little cardboard strip from the inside of Christmas crackers, upon tasting it however, it was the richest, most pure tasting chocolate like nothing I have tasted before. It was like my mind just decided to emphasize the best part of the taste from chocolate.

I was once asked in a dream what I had on my wedding day, and the foods appeared in front of me, and were so amazingly flavorful. That was the first time I ever remember tasting in a dream, and that was only about a month ago.