Do you use your 5 senses in lucid dreams?

[ForbiddenDreamer]

I had my first lucid dream and when I woke up I felt like it is a blurry kind of memory. I felt like I didnt feel myself in that dream, but Im lucid. I didn't feel myself walking, didn't notice myself breathing....etc. It is just like a memory, but vivid. My question is, do you use your 5 senses in lucid dreams? Hearing, Feeling, etc.

[006]

Not necessarily regardless of dream type, but in lucid dreams mostly you do. I think it varies from person to person. It's all absolutely normal if that is what you are curious about.

[LucidSandman]

That happened to me but my dream was more vague, not very vivid. My memory is a little spotty for that dream but it came down to me not stabilizing correctly. What I did was anchor myself to the dream but I did not look at things in great detail to make the dream more vivid. Therefore, I only remember the things that were out of the norm, like flying.

[Sivason]

Visual and tactile/ sight and touch are by far the dominant senses. You will not feel yourself breath unless you try to, as you are not breathing. Sound is also possable and even likely if you are into music. Taste does not work well. You can learn to taste foods in an LD but it is a bit bland. Smell is the weakest of all. I must focus to smell the least bit, then it is weak and subtle.

[RickeyHicks]

You don't necessarily have to use all of them. For me personally what is most important is tactile/ haptic sensory information. Often in lucid dreams the common reality check of putting one finger through your hand doesn't work for me. My body is as physical as it is in real life. Therefore I have to defer to other reality checks in order to assess whether or not I am dreaming. For me, for something to seem real haptic feedback is essential, which is probably why my dreams have so much of it. At the same time hearing and vision are also very important. Vision is probably the coolest and hearing adds flavor to the entire thing. Taste can be important depending on the person. If you are a starving hobo who just happens to be a master of lucid dreaming then dreaming you are eating a delicious turkey would be amazing, and so taste would be important. For me personally not so much. Smell can be important as well.

[Mr0Blonde]

Yeah all your senses will be working, some more than others but you should definitely feel as if you're walking around and completely in the Dream! Sometimes you might not be quite in a Dream though and then it's vivid but more like you're watching a scene rather than living in it, so maybe that's what happened to you. Sivason. Taste for me has always been very strong when I eat something! The first few times I thought to myself, I must be really drooling on my pillow my mouths watering so much! but when I woke wasn't at all. One other time I ate a Strawberry and just as I went to put in in my mouth, saw it was mouldy but tried it anyway. It tasted so disgusting I ran in a house (in the Lucid) to find something to take the taste away. With Smell though I only really get Smell if I try to Smell something, I don't really Smell anything just Flying or Walking around.

[dreamstudent123]

Vision is, I would say obvious for me and 'touch' also. But I have thought about it myself and I do not use/ experience more than these senses...I almost never tasted anything in my dreams and smelling is not something that interests me that much :p Although this night (Non-lucid) I smelled some orange juice with vodka in it! But it was in the morning so it made me a bit nauseous :p

[ParadoxOwl]

Just vision and hearing from what I can remember, don't remember ever getting hurt in a dream or taste anything for that matter.

[paigeyemps]

Yes you use all of them. It's really pretty much just like waking life, without the rules and laws of physics. As the others mentioned, tactile (touch) and vision seem to be the dominant ones, though that could depend on which senses you use a lot in waking life too. For example, in dreams, my smelling sense is really heightened, sometimes even better than my vision. I attribute this to the fact that I work with substances and chemicals with a lot of odors almost every day. Hope this helps. Good luck!

[Micael]

I can't really recall ever smelling anything in a dream... Never aimed to either. Other than that I remember intense instances for all my other senses, both lucid and non-lucid.