Dream accuracy?

[9911MU51C]

Hello, in a dream I had last night (an extremely vivid one) I smoked a cigar at some point, and I remember it tasted somewhat like hickory smoke and kind of like what you smell when grilling, that charred but smoky smell that smells good. It tasted good and I smoked several cigars thought the dream. My question is, how accurate is my dream? Do cigars taste like that? I'm 16 and have never smoked (cigars or cigarettes) so I don't know how I'd know the taste of one

[OpheliaBlue]

Haha cool dream. I never smoked a stogie so I'm not sure. Hope someone else here knows. I'll say this though: I think it's really cool when senses like taste and smell show up really clearly in a dream (lucid or not). Go grab a cuban in real life and see what happens. Though they say to puff, NOT inhale. Or you'll puke.

[snaysler]

I would say cigars don't really tasty like bbq. Tobacco doesn't taste good. I should know because I occasionally smoke...which I only do because of nicotine which is addictive. But I once had a dream I was tripping on acid before I'd ever done a drug. Then one time I really did do acid and the tripping feeling was pretty close to the dream. Kinda cool.

[Linkzelda]

With the power of the unconscious mind and it being able to gather all the experiences and senses you've went through, dreams do have the probability of being more accurate. However, for it being valid enough to be the exact replica is a bit difficult to state. For things like eating your favorite food or dessert, I guess with practice, a dreamer can go through the mannerisms, body language, and all of the experiential knowledge within the unconscious mind to create a near perfect simulation of something they never really tried before. Kind of like mental rehearsals where athletes find themselves going through their "ritual" or triggers of priming themselves up before the event. With dreams, if you have enough faith and apply yourself correctly, it may give you a decent model of what it would be like, but either way, you won't know until you actually tried it. (Not encouraging you smoke though )

[CNGB]

I've noticed that dreams do sorts of things like this--trying to gather information that we do know and apply it to something that we don't know. Even if the cigar in your dream was different from what it would be in reality, I still think that it's pretty cool that your subconscious put what it did together. I'm just a weirdo like that.