Senses working during dreams

[vernon]

I am awake at an unreasonable hour after being woken by dream in which there was a gut churning stench. No, I hadn't farted nor had Mrs V.

It's my first recollection of having the sense of smell operating in a dream?

Has anyone else been able to smell in a dream?

I dream in colour on most occasions and when I get back from my summer tours I have a few dreams in French.

So folks in your dreams:

• Colour or black and white?

• Native tongue or foreign?

• Smell or no smell?

 

[mr_hippo]

Normally dream in colour but as a kid at the dentist under gas always had the same dream - silhouette of familt walking up a hill in black and white.
cannot sing the Thai national anthem when I am awake but can hum the tune. When l am asleep, i can sing the anthem in Thai!


Another sleep question, we all move about the bed when we are asleep but why do we never fall out of it?

 

[longers]

I don't remember noticing dreaming in anything other than colour before. I dreamt about killer whales once, that was mostly black and white.

Do we not fall out of bed much because we used to sleep in trees when we were mostly hairier and we've kept the ability to sense when we might drop out, even while asleep?

 

[G-Zero]

Colour - Native - No Smell

I used to fall out of bed when I was a kid.


Only slightly off topic, but still dream foreign language related....

My eldest boy used to suffer from Night Terrors when he was 5 or 6 years old and he would have waking/walking dreams and would occasionally speak in clear French, while running around the living room !!

He had not started the subject at school and as far as we were aware had not picked it up from the tv.

He never spoke in a really deep voice, couldn't rotate his head through 360 degrees and didn't ever do the green projectile vomit thing.

In fact he quickly grew out of the condition and turned out quite normal, well other than he moved to London and actually enjoys living and working there.

 

[vernon]

Another sleep question, we all move about the bed when we are asleep but why do we never fall out of it?

I've slept most of the way from Darlington to London on the A1 as a pillion passenger on a Triumph Bonneville. Being drunk and having arms and hands that locked on the the rear grab rail like birds' legs and feet do to perches might have helped.

 

[ASC1951]

.... Darlington to London on the A1 as a pillion passenger on a Triumph Bonneville.

And it got all the way without breaking down? My "classic British" Norton Interplod wouldn't have made it to Leeds.

 

[vernon]

And it got all the way without breaking down? My "classic British" Norton Interplod wouldn't have made it to Leeds.

Yes - and it got us back to Darlington.

My mate never had any problems with it. It was an oil in frame 1972 Bonneville and is, apparently, still being ridden.

 

[marinyork]

Colour or black and white?

I've heard various Psychology students claim that many dreams are in B&W. However I've never seen where this claim actually comes from and whether it is widely believed or not. My dreams are in colour - well the ones I remember/part remember, which are a small subset of all dreams I have.

Touch, taste + smell. A lot of my dreams are on the theme of food. Never had a dream about pies, but I did have a dream where I invented a square onion bhaji that became wildly popular at the restaurant I was running. Another one was a chocolate cake making competition . Had dreams where there has been no light and other senses and many where there is simply structure.

 

[Red Light]

I don't dream - or probably I never remember dreaming. Neither does my sister. The mysteries of dreams are closed to me. I go to sleep, I wake up. That's it.

 

[XmisterIS]

I dream in all five senses, in colour and I have lucid dreams. Sometimes I dream in German, mostly in English.

 

[marinyork]

I don't dream - or probably I never remember dreaming. Neither does my sister. The mysteries of dreams are closed to me. I go to sleep, I wake up. That's it.

Did you pass the Voight-Kampff test ?

 

[Mr Phoebus]

Lucid dreamer here. I've also had nightmares in a nightmare, truly scary you think you've awoken from the nightmare but you're still dreaming. The character David had one of those in An American Werewolf in London.

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[Red Light]

Did you pass the Voight-Kampff test ?

**blush**

 

[Seigi]

My dreams are usually in colour if I remember rightly, sometimes I've had my dreams almost...projected into my bedroom as I wake up which is a weird feeling, like I've felt as though I've woken up and saw people in my bedroom which like fade away as I come round. I'm not sure if it's like, the dream comes to my bedroom because I know I'm about to wake up then I wake up and think the dream was in real life....(Yeah, that sorta confused me too as I was typing it).

My partner on the other hand very rarely remembers her dreams at all, and when she does it tends to be things which are really troubling her.

 

[Red Light]

My dreams are usually in colour if I remember rightly, sometimes I've had my dreams almost...projected into my bedroom as I wake up which is a weird feeling, like I've felt as though I've woken up and saw people in my bedroom which like fade away as I come round. I'm not sure if it's like, the dream comes to my bedroom because I know I'm about to wake up then I wake up and think the dream was in real life....(Yeah, that sorta confused me too as I was typing it).

My partner on the other hand very rarely remembers her dreams at all, and when she does it tends to be things which are really troubling her.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_awakening