Do you experience smell or sound in your dreams?
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Clearly my eyes aren’t* open and I cannot take in external visual stimuli in my dreams, however I experience them similar to the visual experience in my minds eye or imagination or whathaveyou. Similarly I feel like I experience something akin to touch or feel (like the occasional flying or falling dream, or the feel of grass or something).
I don’t recall having anything similar to smell or sound in a dream though (except occasionally hearing a real sound while waking up that wasn’t actually part of the dream) What’s your experience?
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Clearly my eyes aren’t* open and I cannot take in external visual stimuli in my dreams, however I experience them similar to the visual experience in my minds eye or imagination or whathaveyou. Similarly I feel like I experience something akin to touch or feel (like the occasional flying or falling dream, or the feel of grass or something).
I don’t recall having anything similar to smell or sound in a dream though (except occasionally hearing a real sound while waking up that wasn’t actually part of the dream) What’s your experience?
Yes for sound. But the times I remember, the sound usually is something real that was integrated in the dream.
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Yes for sound. But the times I remember, the sound usually is something real that was integrated in the dream.
Now I'm thinking about it, and "make sense" to not have sound in your dreams. As your eyes are shut down, keeping your ears available to detect danger seems an advantage to be selected. And that fits with my experience where the sounds I can remember were real.
But there are others known examples of sound inside dreams: musicians! Many songs were written in dreams:
Yesterday (Beatles)
Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
Sweet Dreams (Are made of this) (Eurythmics)
Devil's Trill Sonata (Tartini) -
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