Thread: Does lucid eating result in physiological changes?

You'd think it would make sense for us to shut down the pathways between our brains and our stomaches while asleep, because I'm certain in the rough-and-tumble environment where we evolved food was constantly on our mind. For that reason I don't suspect that normal dreams would do anything, they're just too typical for the body to risk screwing up its biochemistry every time we have donut dreams. But lucid dreaming seems to recover a lot of the faculties that we otherwise "put under" while sleeping, so it does seem feasible that if we have a safety lock against reacting to dream food that it might be unsprung when we go lucid. Plus, with lucid eating you're actually tasting the food whereas in (most peoples') normal dreams eating is a visual stimulus but rarely a gustatory one.

I'm only guessing with the sig since I've never been lucid to know what shifting text "looks" like, if anything, but I figured a real reality check alert is sure as hell not going to look so simple in a dream.