Dreaming reality

**Erik963** · 07-12-2011 01:42 PM

Well i am not sure but did anybody in dream smell aromas of food for example or did someone felt hurt when you get cut in dreams ? becouse i did i dont remeber smells that mutch but i remeber pain i remeber when someone tryed cut off my leg and it hurted prety baldy and it was like in reall life. Even when i got up i didnt forget for that incredable pain.

**zebrah** · 07-12-2011 02:05 PM

It is possible to smell things. I don't smell often in dreams, but when I do things usually smell normal. I also feel pain, but it's never the same amount of pain I would experience if I was awake.

**Puffin** · 07-12-2011 03:29 PM

Yeah, it's definitely possible to be able to smell things, both in lucids and regular dreams (same with the other 4 senses). Usually I don't go around sniffing stuff in my LDs, and instead touch things to help stabilize the dream. But sometimes if I'm lucid and I'm focused, I passively notice smells like rubber and toast. I've felt really bad, realistic pain in regular dreams (not in lucids though, because I'm in control of the dream and my own body). I have also felt sharp, and again realistic pain during sleep paralysis once.

**ThePreserver** · 07-13-2011 01:45 AM

I smell and taste in my dreams, usually. That's only if there is something of note, or when I'm eating (which doesn't happen often in dreams, but when I do, I can taste the food. I specifically remember eating raspberries in one dream which were just as delicious as real life.)

I had one experience where my reality check failed, so I tried pinching myself, and it HURT! So I just said "Oh well, this isn't a dream." It was... actually really funny, but upsetting, because the pinch reality check doesn't work well for me.

**Puffin** · 07-13-2011 01:47 AM

Originally Posted by ThePreserver

I smell and taste in my dreams, usually. That's only if there is something of note, or when I'm eating (which doesn't happen often in dreams, but when I do, I can taste the food. I specifically remember eating raspberries in one dream which were just as delicious as real life.)

I had one experience where my reality check failed, so I tried pinching myself, and it HURT! So I just said "Oh well, this isn't a dream." It was... actually really funny, but upsetting, because the pinch reality check doesn't work well for me.

The pinch reality check doesn't work for me at all, and I think a lot of people would agree!

One's sense of touch is often pretty realistic in dreams, and many people can feel pain in their dreams.

I'd love to try eating raspberries in a dream... Or cutting a kiwi in half and scooping the fruit out, then seeing both how it behaves and what it tastes like at the same time.

**Binsk** · 07-13-2011 05:42 AM

Ow... yeah pain for me is often just as realistic as in real life (In rare cases I have even had pain hurt MORE than I have in real life, though I don't even understand how that can happen). Smell is usually a sign that my dreams are extremely vivid, as that is probably the sense I notice the least when in dreams. I have noticed it before, but more often than not I don't.

It isn't really that unusual to feel pain and whatnot, basically whatever you expect to happen usually happens. If you expect to feel pain, you probably will. If you expect to smell that freshly baked bread, you generally will. At least, that has been my experience and I have seen others say similar things multiple times.

**Erik963** · 07-13-2011 05:04 PM

yeah agree, reality check doenst work for me either and when i get lucyd i never never think about it i just enjoy it like reall life then i get up and find the fuck out it was just one hell of a dream