Today I learned:

Perceiving smells during a dream is an incredibly rare phenomenon, experienced by less than 1% of studied subjects & estimated that less than 7% of the population will ever experience it even once in their lifetime. This is despite dream context including activities that we would normally associate with a smell. Experiencing the phenomenon can be correlated to things like migraine & certain mental disorders to some degree (need to read more). Also interesting, is that one's mood after waking from a dream can be manipulated by the smells that they are exposed to while dreaming, even though the smell is not perceived in the dream.

Have you ever experienced the sensation of smell during a dream?

#dreams #grownostr