Food in the dream world

[IrbidProdigy]

I was eating cookies in my dream today. When I woke up I still had the taste of cookies in my mouth o.o This has happened to me before as well, I'm just curious as to how it happens. The taste isn't perfectly vivid when I wake up, its more mashed around and thick tasting, but its still there... Has anyone else awoken after eating in a dream and still tasted the food? Could it be a part of a sleep paralysis hallucination?

[MUSHYTOKYO]

i have never had that but im extremely interested in developing this the possibility of eating whatever i want without gaining weight is incredible XDD do you know how you experienced it?

[IrbidProdigy]

[Finnick_the_dreamer]

Wow, you still had the taste in your mouth! Im wondering is your brain generating the taste because it thinks you just ate or did you bring something back from the dream world, kind off. I hope for the last, but its highly unlikely.
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[IrbidProdigy]

[46&2]

You could have brought anything back with you and you chose cookies! Like wasting a Genie wish on cookies! J/k If taste is nothing more than chemicals, signals, and synapses firing in your brain telling you what things taste like it seems plausible to think that your brain could memic the cookie taste and signal like you were eating cookies even though you were in a dream. I'm just thankful for sleep paralysis for when I am relieving myself in a dream and don't wake up to find myself and bed wet! Keep it in the dream world!

[IrbidProdigy]

Lol yea definitly. I would wake up 'dead' everyday then lol. And hey, dont you make fun of mah cookie love

[Attempt]

I had an experience like that once, I dreamt I was eating a.. I suppose "juicy" BBQ steak, and when I woke up I had an odd taste in my mouth, remnant of the steak I dreamt I was eating.
The door into my bedroom was open though, and I had been sleeping with my mouth open since I remember drooling, so my guess would be that my dog had walked in and french-kissed me whilst I was asleep.

Good dream though.

[Lence]

Awesome thread.

My very first LD actually, I manifested and ate an apple. Back then it was absolutely mind-blowing how real it tasted. I don't recall ever having woken up with an aftertaste, but I also don't go around stealing cookies in my dreams.

[Rox]

I can remember that I woke up with a slightly aftertaste of a piece of bread, it was in a extremely vivid non-lucid dream and at awakening I could still taste the bread, it wasn't really tasty though.
I can also remember that I woke up with still a little pain. When I was younger I would have recurrent nightmares of me falling in a cliff. That also were my first lucid dreams, I would always tell myself: "Oh don't worry, it's just a dream." And I would just let myself fall in the cliff from 200 meters. I would just feel a little ache but at awakening I would always feel this ache a little bit.
Another example that I would have in my younger dream years. I would run away of someone or something. But I had a intense difficulty with running and I would become really tired in my legs. It felt as if gravity was twice the usual. When I woke up I could still feel the tiredness in my legs.
It probably has something to do with the memory of something, just like you can recall a taste of something delicious that you ate a few days ago. It just has to be something very intense. An intense taste for example. Intense pain, happiness, sorrow. I think that are the key factors of awakening with a feeling (in this example taste).
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[IrbidProdigy]

Yea it seems it could be just "lag" between dream sensations and real world. And yea, I tasted the cookie, but it wasn't very tasty like you said xP

[Conor12]

Taste is a weird sensation in the dreamworld. Our dreams seem to find it easier replicating sights and feelings such as texture, gravity and presence. I rarely taste anything in my dreams but when I do, everything tastes slightly off, like my brain doesn't know food well enough to replicate it realistically.