Well, like everybody else has said, you can definitely eat in dreams. I once had a whole batch of my favourite blueberry muffins, and another time had hot curry soup. (Yum!) There have been plenty of other times as well, but I can’t think of them off the top of my head.
But unfortunately it isn’t satisfying, at least not for me. It tastes delicious, but you don’t get full or have that nice feeling of satisfaction when you’re finished. Maybe some people wouldn’t mind this, but it bothers me. I like feeling full!
I had one low-level lucid dream in which I ate a donut, but I don’t remember if the taste was vivid. I occassionally have, however, non-lucid dreams in which I’m eating dessert food and it’s positively delectable. For instance, a few weeks ago I dreamt that I was eating some chocolate cake thing. It was so delicious that I asserted, unaware that I was dreaming, “There’s just no way that dream food can taste as good as real food.”
I may just go and drink when I get to sleep. I never knew it was possible, I always thought there was a possibility but never in my wildest imagination thought it to be 100% true.
I don’t remember eating in ND-s, but i have tasted carbonated water, and dark beer in LD-s. It tastes as IRL, and really works as LaBerge says: it will satisfy your taste.
And as it is said before: no, i don’t think that you can have accurate taste on foods you have never before eaten.
I think anything that you have experienced is pretty much possible to recreate in a dream. I have even gotten drunk in a dream, and it did indeed feel realistic.
I’ve never eaten in my LDs but I have in my NDs, food always seems to taste the same for me (although I can’t say for the things I’ve never eating in the waking world.)
The day before yesterday I ate one grape in my very short LD. It doesn’t taste like normal, actually it hadn’t any flavour. At least I can’t remember it did.
Last night I remembered this topic and tried to order food at a diner. It ended before I could get my meal, however. I did have a ND where I ate a very delectable crawler though.
Well I have had only one lucid adventure so I didnt have time to check but is eating in dreams taste like in RL? I know the brain is complex but is it advanced enough to identify something like that? If so I’m going to get some pie tonight!
I merged this with an existing topic about eating in dreams