Comments on: Dreams Influenced by Smell

By: Ryan Hurd

Ryan Hurd — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:44:20 +0000

I wonder if there’s a bodily expression/message here about too much sugar in the diet, especially if the smell is related to a feeling like an upset stomach.

By: PM

PM — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:41:39 +0000

Lisa,
I JUST experienced this. Twice tonight I woke up with this burning sugar smell. The house smells normal, but in my dreams (which I don’t recall as being interesting, or related to the smell) it was really strong.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:17:10 +0000

I have dreams (Not the same dreams) with this AWFUL smell. The only way I can describe it is like something sweet, like cotton candy, is burning. It makes my stomach upset and it continues to be upset even after I wake. Can someone PLEASE tell me what this can be?

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:28:21 +0000

Interesting. I rarely smell in dreams, and I wonder if that’s something i should be paying attention to in my dream journal.

By: Dungan

Dungan — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:56:58 +0000

This is an interesting field of study, where our deepest memories (smell) are translated into emotional landscapes and possibly, as Seth suggests, into transpersonal experiences.

Seth, I wrote a bit about mugwort earlier this year: http://dreamstudies.org/2008/04/14/mugwort-helps-with-remembering-dreams/

By: Seth

Seth — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:46:56 +0000

I read that putting the herb mugwort (artemisia vulgaris, with a pungent sage aroma) in your pillow would induce interesting dreams. It was in a book about herbs, pure folk wisdom, anything but scientific.

I picked a bunch of mugwort on a drizzly Easter Sunday and put some by my pillow that night. I dreamed I was in bed with a lady from another planet, and the amazing thing was, we were speaking her language, and I recall thinking in her language as I returned to wakefulness.

By: Lana

Lana — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:16:12 +0000

This post reminded me of a dream in which I smelled something so foul I can even remember it today (& still almost puke at the smell of it.) It was purely a creation of my dreaming mind–it didn’t have any basis in the “external world.”