<div dir="ltr">I have a very weak sense of smell IRL so I never smell things in dreams, for example I find the smell of garbage and other "highly unpleasant" smells only mildly interesting. For example, I feel that American instant ramen noodles and urine smell exactly the same. Or that fish and urine have a similar smell. The only time I remember eating or tasting anything in dreams is when I had an active eating disorder. Likewise, I only had sex in my dreams when I was celebate.<br><br><div>I imagine how much you dream about a specific sense is highly correlated with how strongly you use it in your waking life. People born blind likely do not have dreams about visuals (though I'm not sure how they would know what they were experiencing, even if they did. In the same way, my aunt with a strong sense of smell often has smells as an integrated part of her dreams because they are an important part of her waking life. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 1:22 PM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Wtf I have all my senses in my dreams....<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">When I was a kid I used to try and eat in dreams specifically cuz the food was always so fanciful</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 16, 2023, 5:23 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Oh yes we can - dreams.
Visual, mostly, rarely auditory, never touch, smell or
taste (unless some chat member reports any of those. )
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I can definitely report that my dreams sometimes incorporate sound
(playing a musical instrument) and touch (we won't go there). Don't
recall taste or smell, though. Proprioception as well, though, very
commonly (as in, almost always. Many of my dreams are about movement
- running, cycling, skating, flying, as well as less common and
physically impossible ways of moving - and I can feel the motion,
not just see it).<br>
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The question of whether we are conscious while dreaming is an
interesting one, though. Lucid dreaming - are we really conscious
then? And I sometimes have what I'd call 'semi-lucid' dreams where I
can control events, or at least influence them, but am not as
conscious as in a lucid dream.<br>
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Ben<br>
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