Senses in Your Dreams

Most of my dreams are in color, importan things are brighter and stand out as if they're under a light or have such strong hues everything else looks greyed out.

inkkognito said:

We're a creative bunch here...do the rest of you dream in full sensory mode? Color? Smells? Feelings? Taste? Touch? Sounds? I experience all five senses in my dreams and did since I was a little kid...the tornado nightmares I used to have still make me shudder.

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I get all of 'em here, too.

My recurring nightmare as a kid was the dragon chasing me into a big old dark church, and then something knocking on the floor under the altar, which was the only place I could hide. I knew in the dream it was bigger and scarier than the dragon. Oy.

My favorite dreams are the floating ones. Those are often my lucid dreams too.

I alway dream in color as far as I can remember.

I once dreamed about going to the restroom. That was a big mistake. But quite a sensory experience.

Most of my dreams are Full Sensory Mode---even when I day dream I am in full sensory mode.....

I'm glad to see this thread. I was wondering if maybe I just remembered things wrong. I was always sure my dreams were in color - others said "No way. You dream in black & white. Period."

*wipes brow*

I am still a freak - but at least I'm in good company

Full sensory experiences complete with cinematic cameras and soundtrack.

I didn't realize it was potentially indicative of being creative.

Yep, I've always dreamed in color. One of my recurring problems is that I sometimes dream that I'm falling, and hit the ground hard. I get very dizzy after I wake up!

Yep, I dream in color, though I would say that some colors are brighter than others. I don't recall smelling anything, but touch, taste, hearing, etc. all very much intact.

A little too much so, at times. *shudders*

Color, complete with sensations. Though I think that some senses only work when its according to plot.

You mean some people don't have all their senses in a dream? Mine are often incredibly realistic, in fact quite often I wake up and it takes me a while to figure out it was a dream, not a memory.

I still shudder about the one where me and the kids were trapped in a burning car. And the one where I was a bloke. ( You walk around with that all the time? Wow, it feels really weird. I played a lot of pocket pool. )

I remember in junior high English class, the teacher read something that said most people dream in B&W. She was puzzled and asked for a show of hands of how many of us dreamed in color, and just about everybody claimed they did, so I think that whatever she was reading was flawed.

I dream in all senses--full color (even specific shades), smells, feelings, tastes, and sounds. One of my earliest nightmares featured an overpowering sickly sweet smell that I knew was the smell of death. I taste wonderful sweets in my dreams, and one time I tasted this Chinese food that left an awful, bitter taste in the back of my mouth, and it was just like something I tasted in real life some time later, though I can't recall what it was by now. I can feel pain, though it's usually muted; my sense of touch isn't quite as developed in dreams, or else I just don't notice things as much. I can feel textures, and temperatures, but extremes of hot and cold are nonexistent--witness my frequent dreams of being outside in the middle of the snow yet not freezing. Ah, if only.

inkkognito said:

I experience all five senses in my dreams and did since I was a little kid...the tornado nightmares I used to have still make me shudder.

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ZOMG! I used to have tornado nightmares all the time too!

I dream in colour and full vivid detail. In fact, sometimes when I wake, I cannot tell the difference between the dream world and my real life - often the two seem intertwined.
Interesting topic!

I dream with all senses, but usually for me dreams have a certain potent emotional content that comes across very vividly. The dream might be that I have an aquarium filled with baby chickens, and there's rat hiding in the shavings under the chickens...and what I'll most bring with me upon waking will be, not the weirdness of it all, but the incredible feeling of shock at finding the rat where I hadn't expected one to be, the burning need to rescue it quickly before it got stepped on or pecked to death--the emotion put forth in the dream.

--Q

alleycat said:

I alway dream in color as far as I can remember.

I once dreamed about going to the restroom. That was a big mistake. But quite a sensory experience.

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Hehe. Once I had to go to the bathroom during a dream, so I asked one of the people in my dream where the nearest bathroom was. He pointed up this enourmous hill with a thousand steps. I told him "Nevermind. It'd be quicker if I just woke up and walked down the hall."

Good thing, too...

Nicole

I actively control my dreams...

Yeah, I dream in color too.

Except that time I dreamed I was Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca... That was in black and white.

I dream in color, and if I really try, I can re-enter a dream if I can go back to sleep right away. I feel things, some things, like wind and the touch of other people. I don't know if I smell things. I can say that I dream stories. If I think about it, they have plots and characters that are pretty well developed. In nightmares, if something's chasing me, it's not JUST chasing me. There's a reason, knowledge of where the monster came from, and conversations with other characters about how to survive. I wouldn't have admitted this anywhere else because I'm sure people would think I'm crazy.

I always dream in colour, complete with sounds, touch, and feelings. I didn't really realise this was unique until recently. I've always assumed that everyone else dreamed in colour. Hmm, guess not.

The only sense I haven't really noticed in a dream is smell, but probably because I don't really pay attention to that sense... not a big foodie or anything like that.

My dreams are usually dominated by intense emotion. I know what everyone around me is thinking and feeling and quite frequently I will "become" other people in the course of my dream. (For example, I'm walking along the street and pass a TV in a window playing an old Adam West Batman show. But of course I completely understand everyone's motivations and suddenly I'm no longer walking down the street - I'm Adam West or Burt Ward and I'm now in the show.) I will frequently play several 'parts,' too. And if I get upset, I get REALLY upset. I sob, I scream, I cry so hard that my mouth and throat and everything hurt. Not out loud, just in my dream.

Alternately, sometimes my dreams are really interesting geometric explorations. My brain gets sort of 'trapped' in this mode where I'm exploring the shape of some complex physical object, and then one thing just leads to another and suddenly the dream is all about yellow or square or what have you.

I think those two kinds of dreams are interesting, because it sort of encapsulates how I view the world. I tend to be kind of 'remote', but empathetic on a very deep level (which is probably why my writing is super-character-driven). I am also very spatially aware. I could draw you detailed floor plans of any house/apartment I lived in, back to when I was 4, my high school, my junior high, my elementary school, my grocery store, etc. etc. etc.

The notion that anyone dreams in black and white has always struck me as grossest nonsense.

One thing I have noticed about dreams, though, is that the senses are often featured selectively. Very few dreams have the sensory quality of full reality. One's attention has a limited focus. Then again, some people seem to be like that when they are awake

I have seen, smelled, heard, and felt all sorts of things in dreams. And, far from lacking color, my dreams featured color television when all I had ever seen was black and white TV. (Yes, I've been around a while.)

Color. Honestly, I don't know about the other sense, because I don't really notice. It's like--in my everyday life, I have most of my sense (except I can't smell worth a damn), so I'd only really notice if I lost one. It's not like I would go "whoa. I can feel today!" So I guess in my dreams, I'd notice it, too, but I haven't noticed anything weird as far as sense go, that I can remember.

Really, I hardly ever remember my dreams. Only the hint of a plot, and that's about all. I can rarely recall anything but a little bit of what happened about once or twice a year.

I used to think I only dreamed with lights, colors and taste, but last night I had a dream with Powerslave by Iron Maiden for a soundtrack.

I dream in all colors. Bright as bright and dark as dark. My dreams are full of battles and chases. I also dream of my mom (who passed away almost six years ago) and understand all the advice she gives me. I have dreams where I'm very powerful. I've flown, been invisible, etc.

This moring I had a very intersting dream. I do not remember much of it but I do remember that it was in a hazy, baby blue color and in pixels, like an old computer game. Something about a magnifying glass that when you look at a pond through it it says, "Ice... skate." And also there was a sign that said something like, "Dad, your bladder problem has been fixed."