Eating

Dreaming about eating something inedible

What does it mean to dream you are eating something you should not?

A smaller group, reported with disgust and described vividly.

That vividness is notable given the previous scenario. Taste is barely generated, and yet the wrong-thing reports are among the more sensory in this database, which suggests disgust is being supplied directly rather than through the mouth.

That fits what this database finds about emotion generally: it arrives alongside content rather than being produced by it. The pig entry describes distaste preceding any event at all.

Where the dreamer realises partway, this becomes the reclassification structure the rotten-fruit and crocodile reports describe.

Where this reads well

An interesting case where the feeling is vivid and the sense that would justify it is absent.

Where it is harder

Disgust persists into waking more reliably than most dream feeling.

Worth asking yourself

Could I taste it, or just know? When did I realise? What was it?

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