Do you experience smell or sound in your dreams? (slrpnk.net)

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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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[-] ZoDoneRightNow@kbin.earth 4 points 5 days ago

I have never thought about it for smell and sound but I cannot see in my dreams and feel like my eyes are glued shut. Sometimes during a dream I will try really hard to open my eyes and it causes me to wake up. I have aphantasia so it is probably related. I think my dreams are mostly in concepts

[-] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 days ago

Very interesting! What about others sensations like falling or feeling a surface?

[-] ZoDoneRightNow@kbin.earth 3 points 5 days ago

As a kid I’d have nightmares about falling off a cliff and definitely remember feeling it. I haven’t had a dream like that in a while though

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