Smell
To smell something in your dream, indicates your past experiences and feelings with that particular smell. Your dream is trying to convey a feeling by associating it with a familiar smell or scent.
Alternatively, the scent may be part of your real environment which you have incorporated into your dream.
Dictionary definition
- n. 1: the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form; "she loved the smell of roses" [syn: smell, odor, odour, olfactory sensation, olfactory perception]
- 2: any property detected by the olfactory system [syn: olfactory property, smell, aroma, odor, odour, scent]
- 3: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" [syn: spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell]
- 4: the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents [syn: smell, sense of smell, olfaction, olfactory modality]
- 5: the act of perceiving the odor of something [syn: smell, smelling]
- v. 1: inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense
- 2: emit an odor; "The soup smells good"
- 3: smell bad; "He rarely washes, and he smells"
- 4: have an element suggestive (of something); "his speeches smacked of racism"; "this passage smells of plagiarism" [syn: smack, reek, smell]
- 5: become aware of not through the senses but instinctively; "I sense his hostility"; "i smell trouble"; "smell out corruption" [syn: smell, smell out, sense]