Sense of Smell in a Lucid Dream?

[Mystical_Journey]

Can we have a sense of smell in a Lucid Dream? I was wondering if we can pick up different kinds of smells during a lucid dream, I never felt the sensation of smell while being lucid.

[irishcream]

yeah, i have, definitely. in fact, it was one of the main things i noticed in my last but one lucid dream. Was my sense of smell. in fact that seems to be heightened when i go lucid. Does that help?

[Nirvana Starseed]

I think every sense is increased if you concerntrate on lucidity and you are succesful at 'cristalizing' the dream, by that i mean no vision of color impediments. I have had vision and color distorions while lucid before waking up from the dream, if you get a vivid lucid dream=, smell should be there clearly than ever .....

[Hate]

Last night I had a lucid dream or where I was flying at our school. Anyway, at some point I happened to fart and I could clearly smell the shitty smell. The lucidity in this dream went on and off all the time so I'm not 100% sure if I was lucid in that point.

[Jammy]

Yes we can definetly have a sense of smell during a dream. But usually the sight is what is concentrated on mostly. From what ive read the sight center in the brain has more volum than the other sense centers, so this would be natural. Usually my problem is that when i try to use the other senses i cant remember during recall wether i actually, lets say, heard a noise or that i just "knew" that the noise was there. But this other LD i had some days ago i touched the ground with my hand, and it then felt as real as the sight is represented, and as real as it does in waking life. So im going to try to involve more of the other senses from now on. I think this has an advantage of stabilizing the LD to.

[nina]

I sometimes find it difficult to incorporate all senses at once. Sight and touch go together pretty well, you just have to focus on what particular sense you are trying to achieve. One time I was floating over the ocean in a beautiful tropical paradise and I could see everything SO clear and feel the wind in my hair...and then I decided, hey I want to smell this too and take in the full experience. So I inhaled deeply and it smelled like the ocean. It was amazing. I think as long as you are focusing on that particular sense it will manifest and become stronger.

[irishcream]

hmm, i find my sight is never very good in a lucid...but it's not good in real life. so i wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that my sense of smell is improved?

[ShadowVengance]

I have a sense of smell in LDs, I havent really thought anything of it, but now that I think about it, it's pretty cool!

[Yume]

I remember in a lucid dream there was a smell so putrid I screamed. I got really mad. Then I held my nose for a long time, but that didn't help. Smell can be a big part of an LD.

[Hate]

I think the senses you use a lot in everyday life will most likely be strong in your (lucid) dreams too. If your sense of smell is bad in real life maybe you won't sense it in dreams either.

[OpheliaBlue]

I'm necro-ing this topic because I had a lucid dream recently where I could smell something. And really strong too. I did the finger-through-palm trick and when I took my finger back out, it smelled kinda fishy (gross I know, sorry...but true). Anyone else recall being able to smell stuff in their LDs? Perhaps something more pleasant than a fishy finger?

[Kaimelar]

Yup. I definately smell in dreams. I had a dream once where a friend of mine started to vomit and the smell was so intense I barely avoided vomiting myself. I think there's a certain relationship between how you focus on senses during your waking life and in your dreams. For example, I focus a lot on the sense of taste in reality. I'm always comparing flavours and I really enjoy eating. I eat very very often in dreams I have and Im always doing those same things during the dreams. A good friend, on the other hand, has never remembered a dream where he has eaten anything at all. But he doesnt focus on those details during his waking life either, so I guess there's something to it. What I've also noticed is that my sight is just as sucky in dreams as it is in real life... bummer. I guess if I had lucids more often I could control that, ah well...

[Callista]

I only remember one dream that had smell in it. I've got to work on that...

[Barbizzle]

Last night I had this awful smell in my dream. I was at school and the whoel front office smelt liek weed. HAve you ever smelt it? Its disgusting beyond discription. Anyways, I smelt ti for the first time the other night, and that same night the smell was in my dream, uhguhgugh. yep so smell for sure exsits in dreams

[Revero]

I've also had a dream in which I smelled the sweet aroma of marijuana. Only it was pouring out of my lungs.