Have you ever smelled something in a dream?

Yes, Haheheha..LOL, sometimes you have a good point there it does happen to me before too. I dont know how such memories stuff works but it's great really definatly I agree.

Cup of Cappuchino,

MC

Yes, I do sometimes smell things in my dreams. Not often, only rarely. Usually it is a terrible odor. Always associated with something bad. Incidentally, I have read many times that people only dream in black and white. Maybe I'm just weird, but I dream in color, brilliant vivid color. Indeed, many times colors are important to the subject of the dream. I usually remember my dreams for a few hours after waking. Some dreams are so vivid and real that I remember them for several days.

I always dream in plaid, myself.

Soul has been eternally envelpoed by subtle body( sukshma sarira) as per 'rg'veda' and then it takes its due births for gross bodies for material manifestation on a repeated fashion.Nature kindly arranges the required choices.The material birth is associated with gross body( sthula sarira) which gives the subtle body a spatial possibility in time scale i.e, life span along with the five senses which includes smell as in discussion here.

Subtle body= mind, intelligence +ego

Gross body= Five senses +the spatial material body

Five senses= ear,eyes,nose,tounge,skin

Five objects of senses:ear ( representing also sound/sky),eyes( representing light /shape),nose( representing smell /earth) tongue ( representing taste /water)and skin( representing touch/air)

In a dream the soul is supplied with a subtle body, dictated largely by intelligence .In the case of death soul's activities are withdrawn into subtle-bodiedness, rejecting the useless gross body.The rentry to another gross body being dictated by past actions consolited within the previous- subtle body, mostly done on repeated nature i.e, habbits.

As you see here the smell being a 'sense object' cannot be replicated in a dream.The smell requires signature of the gross body.

Through required humilty( ego lessness) alone we can absorb this knowledge, which is also verily beyond dualistic logic, the 'software' of subtle body.

I normally smell rotten eggs in my dreams, and sometimes even after I wake up the room seems to be filled with that odor. On a side note my wife says I need to cut down on my carb intake.

It is not possible for a person to smell while asleep.

The sense of smell is the first sense to shut down, and the last to re-start on wakening.

That's why so many people die of toxic gases emitted during a fire, even though they are not actually burned.

Best way is to have a dog in the house while you are asleep, because with dogs, the sense of smell is just as active while they are asleep, as awake, so the dog can react far before the smoke alarm.

Man's best friend, that's the descendant of the wolf.

As far as "memories of a smell during a dream", like other dream memories, probably just random firings of neurons, during the dreaming activity.

Kind Regards....

Hello Sparkstation:,

Why can't we smell during a dream just as we see colours and shapes, with smells being part of the everyday things we deal with?

I do smell when I dream. Some of the amazing dreams I have about fabulous gardens with special hide-holes and little caves. With flowers all round it would be a wonder if we did not smell as we dream.

I also have really odd and frightening instances just after a seizure. Three times I have watched myself walk downstairs, while I am in fact standing at the bottom of the stairs.

It is all to do with the Epilepsy according to the clinical Psychologist I saw after this happened. I know it was really scary. I did not know if I was dreaming or just seeing things.

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I have and is my first time dreaming about old women perfume, the funny thing is that it involved a girl I used to mess around out with, it was very vivid and this is the reason why I am here sharing about this weird experience... just when you thought you had experienced everything in your sleep. Anyhow maybe it has a meaning or not but it was definitely surprisingly odd.