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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[-] Corno@lemm.ee 7 points 5 days ago

Yes to both, and I can also read in my dreams as well, which is popularly thought to be impossible. It's not gibberish either but cohesive headlines in a newspaper or something. I am most likely abnormal in this sense since I also appear to have hyperphantasia, so what applies to me may not extrapolate to the general population!

[-] KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol 4 points 4 days ago

I can read to, but the text changes each time I read it.

[-] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

Same and also it makes perfect sense in dream but after waking up it is clearly wrong like equations won't be balanced or units will be completely wrong.

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