I think it's safe to assume that everybody has sight and hearing in a dream, lucid or not, but I very rarely experience taste, smell or touch. I know I definitely never experience taste or smell in a regular dream and will only experience touch if that dream is very vivid. On becoming lucid the quality of my sight and hearing greatly improves but I don't experience any other sensations. For example I flew in a lucid dream last night but I had no sensation of wind against my body or no sensation of heat in the air and upon landing on a mountain and sitting down I could not feel the texture of the rock.

Normally a dream character has to prompt me in order to become aware of such things for example in one lucid dream a character told me to inhale deeply and focus on the air and in doing so I could feel cold air in my lungs and the air smelled like my old primary school building, this was both surreal and beautiful.

So I suppose in order to experience these things it requires a lot of self awareness in the dream. Sight and hearing are naturally there so why do other senses and sensations appear non-existent? Maybe for some of you all your senses occur with little or no effort. What sensation or sense was the hardest to train or experience in a lucid dream for you? Were their certain techniques you carried out in waking life or in a dream in order to experience certain senses with ease whilst lucid?