So this is something i've been intrested in lately.

It is however, quite tricky to put into words.

I can imagine sound and images. I can call up and mentally recreate pictures and voices and such inside my head, i'm pretty sure everyone (within reason) can.
However, i recently learned that some can mentally recreate tastes and smells. If you're one of these people that'll seem like a strange revelation for me to make, but the concept, you must understand, is completely alien to me. I can't comprehend being able to do that and yet suddenly i discover it seems to be a pretty much 50/50 thing, possibly leaning slightly in favour of those that can (which blows my mind).

There is of course one issue. Can people REALLY or are they just misunderstanding my question. People i've talked to claim they make her mouthes water by imagining a taste, which is a bizarre thought from my point of view.

I'm not entirely what this is actually going to achieve as a topic (not much is my guess), given that there's not really a lot to discuss. However, it intrests me and hopefully it'll intrest some other people.
Can anyone shed any light on this?

I think it's pretty normal for your mouth to water thinking about the taste of something, it happens to me all the time.  I don't really know if I am RECREATING smells and tastes, but I have a vivid enough mental image of them to where I might be able to trick myself into tasting/smelling something for a second or two.

I can like, recall how my computer mouse would feel holding it from any angle. Or estimate it, at least

Shit, the plot thickens.

I'd considered the idea of imagining sensation but that seems just as strange if not stranger.
I feel like i'm missing out now.

I cant imagine smells the same way I can imagine a music or an image at all. I remember what something tastes like, but I cant like, think of it and "feel" the taste I have in mind. It stays vague, and only becomes clear when I taste it again.
But you can imagine tastes when dreaming for example. You eat an apple or you touch a wall in a dream, you will often really feel it, even though its not there, so in a way everyone can "imagine tastes"...


Also this is sort of unrelated, but I heard somewhere about another taste that was sort of recently "discovered". You know, like salty, sweet, etc. I dont remember how this taste is called but I remember that the best way to sample it is with parmesan cheese or with anchovies.

Edit: the new taste is called UMAMI. I dont know how NEW it is but yeah.

Edit2 "discovered" isnt really a good term for it. More like, people decided, by some sort of convention, that there was a taste that was too far from being just a combination of those we already knew, and wasnt based on smell either. Try eating parmesan cheese while pinching your nose?

I can recall a memory of something that I've eaten several times and taste it in my head if thats what you mean.

Our minds are really powerful y'know. It's weird in my dreams that I'm able to create people whom I've never met. They have their own voices, their own faces, their own bodies and whatnot. I can't recreate touch, but somehow I know what levitating feels like. I could feel myself floating off of my bed.

I know I can think of a familiar food and taste it. It's almost as if the tastes of things are hiding underneath my tongue and when I think of something it comes out to the surface. That's the best way I could describe how it works for me. It works the same for smells, only in the nostrils of course. It just has to do with memory and awareness I suppose.

yes I pretty much have to as part of my job, even as a minor cook in a kitchen one must be able to make the sauces correctly from scratch quickly and tell what is what so yeah I can do this well

also umami is synonymous with savory rather than brothy heh

I'm pretty sure you have to be able to do this to be a functioning human being.

I mean, MEMORY guy.

oh btw I'm sexually attracted to orange

I'm pretty sure you have to be able to do this to be a functioning human being.

I mean, MEMORY guy.

I have to be able to know what some combination of things is going to smell/taste like before I do it

I dont think thats memory nearly as much

I know but that's a skill you can develop. something like CAN YOU REMEMBER WHAT AN ORANGE TASTES LIKE??? is a little easy and required for basic memory I'd think!

Yeah I've got a good imagination so it's not hard for me to bring up those memories, or however you want to put it.

I know but that's a skill you can develop. something like CAN YOU REMEMBER WHAT AN ORANGE TASTES LIKE??? is a little easy and required for basic memory I'd think!

fuck thanks steel now i'm tasting an orange in my head and have to drag myself downstairs to go get one

I can think about food and remember what it takes like, but I don't actually taste it.