Thread: feeling the sense of touch in dreams

I'd say I do often feel the sense of touch in my dream and it doesn't matter if it's lucid or not. I don't know though now that I think of it I never really think of it...

Originally Posted by Jen

Hi, im new. just wanted to know if most people in this commuity can feel the sense of touch in there dreams, and if so, does it mostly happen when lucid.

I would say that touch in a non-lucid state is quite vague for me, but when lucid, all the senses should be heightened a great deal, almost like real life.

Take a false awakening I had a while ago, I woke up, realised I was dreaming and then touched my bedsheets as I was sitting on the side of my bed, and it felt virtually the same as in reality. The softness and springy-ness of the sheets and mattress were amazing, in fact, the only difference I could tell at the time was that I had a kind of tingling sensation at my fingertips ( my dream fingertips that is! ), and I guess this is the minds way of trying to replicate the waking world.

By the way, welcome to dreamviews

Thanks for the response, speaking of false awakening i do remember how i could feel the covers around my face, in this event i awoke to something running past my bed, i thought one of my kids had gotten up in the night. I then looked towards the foot of my bed. To my HORROR i saw a completly black humanoid figure standing in my doorway, it look like it stood 7 feet tall. All i could think was that someone broke into my house and how was i gonna get my baseball bat. I wasn't sure if the man in the doorway knew if i was awake. I then remember falling unconscious and going into an ordinary dream. When i awoke, i knew i had not dreamed the intruder. I checked every door and window. No one had broke into my house!! To this day it still messes with my head. What is real and what is dream. The sense of touch happens alote in my dreams

I'd say about 1/20th - 1/30th of my non-lucid dreams involve the sense of touch in some way, shape, or form, but of course I forget a lot of my dreams All I know is that it's not as rare as I once thought it was.

In my lucids, I tend to focus on touch, so I feel it a lot more frequently than I do in non-lucids.

Sense of touch, for me, almost never happens in non-lucid dreams, but it always happens in full LD's.

Originally Posted by Jen

Hi, im new. just wanted to know if most people in this commuity can feel the sense of touch in there dreams, and if so, does it mostly happen when lucid.

Hey there, I am new too. I just joined 10 mins ago.

The title of the post reminded me of a dream I had just this week. I wasn't lucid in it, I definitely didn't know I was dreaming at the time, but I definitely could feel things I was touching, and could feel someone touching me (all innocently tho )

I almost always have all of my senses in dreams, though sometimes touch is dulled for me (mostly pain). One time, I got shot with a shotgun, and it felt like airsoft BB's. And in one dream, I found a room full of dessert food and pigged out. I could actually taste the food. Banana pudding, chocolate brownies, etc. Just know that all dreams are different for everybody. I read something once that said 1/12th of people dream in black and white (though I rarely come across any on DV... odd). Welcome to DreamViews!

Originally Posted by Jen

Hi, im new. just wanted to know if most people in this commuity can feel the sense of touch in there dreams, and if so, does it mostly happen when lucid.

That remindes me, i really have my senses in my dreams. I remember one that i had that is on one of my threads that i could feel the wind in my hair and here the wind passing over my and just the intencity of it was awasome. Other than that i can feel things like pain, wind, rocks, all sorts of things. The power of the mind, its amazing.

O, and welcome to the dreamviews community

I have touch in a lot of my dreams, but the feeling is more vivid in some than others. In an incredibly non vivid non lucid dream, I have a great sense of touch. It all depends on the clarity/vivdness for me.