Just woke up from a dream that would have had a distinct taste and smell but did not.
Never thought about it before I reckon but doesn’t really seem like it can be a thing.
Feel, sound, and sight are there of course but can’t say I can recollect ever experiencing taste or smell in a dream.

Dreams are such a weird concept to me anyway.

I seem to have taste, smell touch and hearing but I can't read in my dreams and in the dream it really frustrates me. After prostate surgery, most of my dreams at one point will have a hard to find bathroom in it. If I find it there will be trouble...

My roommate in college did. He woke up with his face in a can of bean dip.

I have read that smell is the most vivid and memorable of memories. Something about that part of the brain. A Theory is that your brain sorts and files the experiences of the day. If you wake up in the middle of it you remember what we call a dream. The theory makes sense to me.

When I was 15 I had abdominal surgery during tests I had to drink several large cups of iodine indicator dye for a CT scan to contrast with another indicator they injected by IV. They tried to hide the taste with some Hi-C flavoring (I think that's what it was) but the overall result is still extremely unpleasant.

Occasionally I vividly remember the taste and smell. It is like nothing else and I hope I never had to have it again.

I'll have to pay attention in dreams and try to remember if there is taste or smell there.

I have, but they were from smells in my bedroom. Once was when a skunk sprayed something outside my window, which was open. The other time we had some type of sewer backup. The sewer gasses were coming up through my tub drain. I just remember having some dream where I smelled something, and woke up tot he strong sewer gas smell in my bedroom.

Yeah, had both. Most of the tasted items were bitter.

The smell of outside items make its way into my dream as well as the 'smell' itself come from what I'm dreaming about.

My dream are crazy anyway. Can continue where I left off a few days later. Reading individual letters (or the lack thereof) comes easy.

One other thing I have noticed is that it is quite rare for one to have access to a light switch in dreams. Can only remember one of them. It was epic.

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Originally posted by HayesGreener:
A Theory is that your brain sorts and files the experiences of the day. If you wake up in the middle of it you remember what we call a dream. The theory makes sense to me.

I'd have to respectfully disagree with that one. I have never actually been piloting a time machine that did not compensate for planetary drift, but I had a dream about one a few weeks ago.

I remember almost none of my dreams, but I'm pretty sure there were no tastes or smells in them. Audio and visual, yes.

Smelled snuff in a dream about my sweet grandmother after she had died. She and my grandfather were both snuff dippers. Love remembering that dream.

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Originally posted by Black92LX:
Just woke up from a dream...

There's your answer why. As you're close to waking up, your brain's getting mixed signals, your brain is still "in the movie" by your body is starting to come back online.

Like slipping in a dream and physically bracing yourself and waking yourself up. Or "100lb trigger pull/my gun won't fire" dreams. The one I have the most often is pushing the brakes in a car and it not stopping. Had that this morning right before waking up.

I had a dream as a kid/teen that I still remember to this day. I dreamt I was eating a burnt old plastic and foam bicycle seat. (I know, WTF?) I can't still remember the awful dream and the awful sickening taste. And when I woke up, I still had that taste in my mouth for a while. Now I've had dreams where I got injured and woke up with the pain still there, and when I realized I hadn't really been hurt the pain immediately went away. But this nasty taste stuck around, so it must have been something I actually ate the night before.

I think I've smelled a fart in my dreams, but then I'm also a light sleeper!

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Originally posted by Warhorse:

I think I've smelled a fart in my dreams, but then I'm also a light sleeper!

Dreams come true. Jesse Mastiff, all 200 pounds of him, preferred to sleep right outside our bedroom door. He produced enough methane to power a small city.

Happened pretty regular during and shortly after having the co-vid.

I remember one very vividly more so because of the circumstances.

Growing up I was in Scouts. One summer I had let it slip I had gotten some smoke bombs which were "illegal" in Minnesota at the time. One of the other kids in the troop begged me to give him one when we went up to our annual week long camp trip and eventually I caved and gave him one.

Few days later the a-hole decided to light it and throw it in my tent when some of the kids were up for the morning but before me and my tent mate were as it was still before our wake up time for the day.

With me being asleep still, I recall dreaming that I was at home on a sunny day with all the windows open, but it smelled like gasoline. I couldn't find anyone to tell them so we could do something about it and couldn't get the windows to close.

I woke up a few minutes later and figured out something was wrong in the tent. Opened the flaps to be greeted by a small group of kids who were laughing at us as all the smoke came rising out of the tent behind me.

The laughing was short lived though as it got the attention of the adults and their wrath. Smoke bomber got latrine duty for the rest of the week and I was sternly advised to not give anyone smoke bombs or anything like it again.

I can't remember a smell or a taste in a dream, but I can't say definitively that it has never happened. I do not remember much about any dream, in general.

Had another one.

The smell was ->HORRID<-! Like thirty rotting skunks in a pile bad! Yikes!

Yep. Sight, sound, touch, taste, smell... and in color too. Sometimes sounds and smells around me get incorporated into my dreams too.

Funny cause all that effort to render the full sensory experience seems to be balanced out by laziness in creating sets. The settings in my dreams are usually from a group that gets used over and over, like stage/studio sets. When I recognize the set I know I'm dreaming... yes while the dream is happening.

Haven't noticed a pattern with locations without the story continuing.

My most recent was a space colony carved into an asteroid that was being abandoned.

Lots of pageantry and prominence. I had to align the 'rescue ship' and prepare a sign:

Nitrogen - 80%
Oxygen - 12%
Hydrogen - 0%
Helium - 0%
Hexane - 0%
Atmosphere - 15 PSI

The brass and dignitaries went to the ship before everybody else. I was last in line.
Turns out we were being loaded to be ground up and used for fuel.

Had remembered that the ships occupants lived in a heavier atmosphere and it was pressurized to 50 PSI.
I was able to tear a hole in the ship to depressurize it and it lost all power.

Went to the bridge of the ship and they didn't survive the loss of pressure. The smell was awful.
Their internal organs were oozing out and crystallizing.

The architecture and construction of the ship was completely different than the other space ship I was on that tuned out to be a time machine.
I probably couldn't go back to that one as I had sunk it to the bottom of the Atlantic.

Yes. When I was working ranges early the following morning and bringing in lunch for the guys, I'd cook the brats overnight in the crockpot and would experience the smell of the brats in my dreams.