Nope, you aren't crazy! I can't taste it most of the time, but there have been a few times that I could taste the food in my dreams.

Tami...who is also a picky eater!

It will be interesting to also note if you dream in color or just back and white.

The fact is you really can't say for sure. 99% of the dreams are forgotten.

dcarch

I definitely dream in color but I can't say about tasting food in my dreams. I'll have to pay closer attention.LOL

jude

I can taste food if I dream of eating. I also dream in color...sometimes amazing vivid color, depending on the dream. In fact, the other night I dreamt I was carving little wooden fish, and when I put them into water they became real and began to swim around. Their colors were amazing, almost "electric" in a way, like many tropical fish.

I have often dreamt of a particular food in such detail (including flavor) that I have had to make it when I woke or go mad with craving it.

Yup,
I can taste and smell while dreaming. This is a little gross, but happened just a few days(nights?)ago.
I was dreaming I was with people in an office break room and we were happily eating chocolate cake...dark chocolate with white frosting. Suddenly, everyone started looking at one another rather accusingly, and I woke up, and there was a big "stinky" wafting from the litter box. Darn cats know how to ruin a good dream!

That's an interesting question. I don't recall ever eaten in my dreams! Al

I don't remember tasting food in my sleep but I definitely dream in color, I remember recently dreaming that I lost one of a new pair of gloves and they were a beautiful turquoise color. Now, I always lose ONE glove and my current gloves are brown, so I remembered, LOL.

I also dreamed that I bought new dishes and they were bright yellow. I don't know where the heck THAT dream came from.

Annie

Rob, tasting food in a dream would be a great dieting strategy!

My dreams are very real and in color. Sometimes have the same dream reoccur. I don't recall ever dreaming of eating food. I've had dreams where the food won't finish cooking, like bread doesn't rise or can't get the ingredients together to make a recipe.

My dreaming self appears neither to cook nor to eat, and so I have no memories of food in dreams. I do dream in color, however, and color is often a very important part of the dream.

Last week I dreamed that I was trying to walk home in San Francisco through Dolores Park, and I got stuck in some mud. Then I saw a slow stream of tar approaching me coming down the hill, and I could see black smoke further up the hill and the fire that was also coming toward me. Meanwhile, firemen were already occupied putting out a fire in a free clinic where a crazy woman had gone a a rampage unplugging everyone who was on life support before she started a fire in the hospital. The police came with machine guns to stop her, and I was almost gunned down before I escaped to Dolores Park. After I woke up, I made a point not to go back to sleep.

Lars

Cotehele,
It could also be a dieter's downfall. I often dream of chocolate. And I've dreamed of eating fried chicken, probably after smelling it in the deli section of the local grocery store, and I usually crave it after dreaming of it...or was I craving it before dreaming it? Interesting...

I have vivid dreams, and I used to dream about work (in restaurants and at the store) often, but I don't recall ever eating in my dreams.

Another who cannot recall having had a dream involving food.....other indulgences yes, food no.

I know I dream in colour.

I can't recall dreaming about food so will have to try to remember if I do. I definitely always dream in color though.

I rarely remember my dreams. Hubby says I dream and talk alot, but I don't have a clue in the morning!
When I do remember it's because I wake up terrified. I seem to only remember my dreams of helplessness. Like kids falling in the river, hubby cutting himself with a chainsaw, etc. Nice, huh? And they're definitely in color! Yuk!

I don't recall eating, tasting, smelling or cooking in my dreams. I have had food be a "first thought" when I wake. Usually when I have a lot to do and my mind is already planning and working out a schedule. It's rare that I can go back to sleep then either. I just get up and get started if it's within an hour of my normal time to get up anyway. If it's the middle of the night, I force myself to think of something else (meditation, counting sheep, whatever) to get back to sleep.

Deanna

Interesting answers!

Ironically, I dreamed I was eating last night. Must have been the power of suggestion and this thread. It was stale cookies and they had red and green (obviously I dream in ordinary color) candies in them. Bet that means I'm weary of Christmas ;)

Same here, Rob! I dreamed I was eating pancakes last night and in my dream I was so surprised to be eating and commented that I would have to tell everyone on the cooking forum!
I can't remember ever eating in a dream.
Jo

I dream A LOT and remember quite a bit. I do dream in color and of eating, but my taste buds only work occasionally in my dreams. I can honestly say I don't know anyone with dreams as nutty as mine. I won't go in to some of the "food" items in my dreams. Dream analogy can be very interesting and insightful.

Interesting question indeed!

I don't remember tasting food either, but I do recall a terrible, horrible dream where I tasted excrement - boy was I glad to wake up from that one!

I'm not sure whether I dream in color or not - I can't recall, which makes me think I do not.

"... boy was I glad to wake up from that one!"

Carol, that was one of the "food items" I was referencing n my previous post. It was on French rolls being served at a party. Luckily, I never took a bite! I'm sure there was some kind of message in that dream...one I'd rather not know! :-/ I once dreamed I gave birth to 4 hot dogs. The nurse at the hospital thought they were adorable. LOL, I never tasted them!

??? How did this thread show up after almost 10 years? I'm just curious.

That's weird...it was already bumped up when I posted, but the post before mine is 2009...??? Oh well, not the first time I haven't paid attention to dates. :-(

It's still a good thread, and I enjoyed reading about my dream from ten years ago. Since that time I believe I had tasted food in my dreams. I have very vivid dreams, especially in the morning just before I wake up, and I always remember them, whether I want to or not. I used to write them down in my diary, and some of my dream diary entries were five pages or more.

I'm not sure what you call this, whether it is lucid dreaming or dream paralysis, but I often have an awareness that I might be dreaming but am never quite sure. Once in a dream I decided to pinch myself to see if I was asleep, and when I did, it hurt, which convinced me I was really awake instead of dreaming. I don't try that any more. One clue I have that I am dreaming instead of awake is when I get lost and cannot find my way - almost like being in a maze. Or when I lose cars and keep buying new ones because I can't find the old ones. I have that dream a lot.

I think I have come up with new recipes in some of my dreams, and I definitely write those down.

I've had dreams where there was food in the dream but never me eating it. Such a coincidence that this just came up, about 2 weeks ago I dreamed that DH insisted that I make some cookies that everyone where he works loves. He said he wanted to take a big bunch to work. So in my dream I made like 5 batches of them and for some reason I went with him to deliver them to his office. We were just finishing setting out all the cookies in the break-room and he was getting ready to go out the door to tell everyone the cookies were ready. I happened to look at one of the plates of cookies and they looked really strange. So I got down close to the plate and was peering at them and all of a sudden these horrible pinkish segmented worms started crawling out of them!!! And the more I looked the more worms crawled out and they were getting bigger and slimier and they were slithering down from the cookies and dropping on the floor in these horrible strings of slime!!! Then I ran to the door and called him back so he could see what was going on so that he could head the other people off from coming in. But then he started screaming at me because I allowed worms to be in the cookies!! LOL!!! Boy did I give him heck when he woke up in the morning!!

But I know 2 things that I can't do in my dreams and that's read and do mathematics, even simple addition. I've woken up many times being very frustrated because of that.

I posted 10 years ago that I never ate in my dreams. It has been 10 years, still got no food in my dreams. I wonder why. LOL

Huh! I never noticed the dates. I actually posted on another forum about how houzz is putting very old posts in the 'related discussions' sidebar & it got me, I clicked on something and replied, then noticed it was from years ago, so I deleted my comment.

I know some people get annoyed by resurrected posts.

"I actually posted on another forum about how houzz is putting very old posts in the 'related discussions' sidebar..."

I wonder why they do that...? I try to notice dates but clearly miss sometimes.

If someone bumps up an old thread then deletes their response, does the thread remain bumped?

Good question.

Most of the time I am not eating in my dreams, so it is hard to say. But I can smell aromas in some of my dreams. I would imagine I might actually taste sometimes.

Okay this may be an old thread, but it is an interesting if quirky topic. TBH, sometimes I neglect to look at dates as my eye goes right to thread content. I think it's a pain if the thread relates to a specific home building/designing question, but something like this? Hmm, no shouldn't be a problem.

My goodness, Althetrainer! I remember you, it has been a very long time.

How is "Little man" doing?

dcarch

There is no food in my dreams either which is odd since I love to cook.

I like resurrected threads, if they are good ones like this one.

This morning I dreamed that I was at a movie (sci-fi, I think) on the Sony lot, and after the movie, everyone was served hors d'oeuvres along with chocolates and strawberry muffins that fell apart when you handled them. I remember tasting the strawberries and the chocolate in the dream. We were also asked to fill out a survey about the movie, and I had a very difficult time doing this because I could not figure out what the movie was about and had already forgotten most of it. Kevin was with me in this dream, and he had no trouble filling out the survey, and I was going to ask him to help me with it, but I woke up before that could happen. Kevin frequently invites me to screenings at the Sony lot, but we have never been served food there, although I have eaten at the commissary.

I dreamed last night of eating Chinese food like fried rice and sweet & sour pork and I could taste it. It made me crave Chinese food when I woke up.

Can't recall any dreams involving food. If I ever do, I plan to spend the rest of the day in bed.

But, as weird as it may sound, I've had prophetic dreams. Didn't like those at all. I would much rather dream of precipitously diving into in a sea of hot fudge sauce.☺

Sol

Sol, you are not alone. I've had those since junior high school. And Heaven help those who are on my mind a lot, unexpectedly. It usually isn't good news. I have been known to call a friend I haven't heard from in a long time, to ask what's wrong! I like your sea of hot fudge sauce!

Thank you Tami! I debated whether I should post it. Thankfully, precognitive dreams are few and far between, the older I get. If only I could make it happen with the lottery . . .☺

Sol

Me too, but it's never anything exciting. I was reading a certain strange old book in one, for instance.

I've smelled food in my dreams, but I don't remember dreams with eating involved. I do dream in riotous, highly detailed color, often with a soundtrack, but rarely with smells.

Sol, I've had prophetic dreams also, and the most dramatic was when I dreamed something that happened the very next day, almost exactly as I had dreamed it. When I had the experience, it felt like déjà vu, but I knew what I was experiencing was the dream I had the night before, and I was able to predict what was going to happen next. It was my first day at university, and I had never visited the campus before I had the dream.

Recently I dreamed of sampling some different types of tea, and I could definitely taste those in my dream. I liked the first sample but did not like the second sample.

Exactly!

I dream that I am cooking. Don't remember eating/sampling in my dream. But I DO remember waking up with a puddle of saliva coming out of the corner of my mouth. That MUST mean I am tasting things, right? ... Right? ... RIGHT?

Tami and Lars, I'm nodding as I read of your experiences. But first, my apologies. Somehow this thread got away from me.

To be clear, I never worry about others' opinions. Some of the forum's long-time members know I'm an unabashed straight shooter . . . I get that from my dad's side☺

I vacillated posting because these were experiences I have only shared with my mother and daughter. And, whether a blessing or a curse, I find it fascinating.

Lars, your dreams are far more pleasant than mine. I'd welcome those in my life.

My most troubling dream was one my mother and I both had, on the very same night, where three people (a family member and two friends) were hurt in a boating accident.

The following morning we received a call alerting us of the incident, described precisely as it appeared in our dreams. This prompted mom and I to take a very stressful trip overseas to see them. Happy to add, all three survived -- no thanks to me.

In any case, to keep this food related, I once dreamed the Kardashians had come over for a barbecue, but I didn't have enough food . . . and I was not mad.

May your dreams always be sweet!

Sol