Do You Phantom Taste Tobacco?

[puff_not_snuff]

I usually have my first smoke in the late afternoon and my last around 10pm and have been recently finding that I almost anticipate tasting the tobacco sometime in the early afternoon. I don’t mean as I sit around thinking about a pipe but randomly when doing whatever I strongly recall the taste of what I had the day before perhaps. Has anyone else experienced this?

 

[litup]

Yes! I have had that feeling or sensation as well. Whenever I have it, I take a mental note of the tobacco I just "phantom tasted" and make sure I include more of it in my next tobacco order because I figure if my body is telling me "that was so good I want it again" it should be listened to.

 

[mso489]

I don't know if you mean this in a good way. Years ago, when I quit the pipe for some years, I was having trouble with aftertaste, and it was not tasty. It may have been from aromatic blends. In later years, I don't have this, and that's a good thing, smoking many more non-aromatics and only tobacco forward aromatics.

 

[cigrmaster]

I actually taste pixie dust in my first bowl. Th next few of the day taste normal.

 

[hauntedmyst]

Sometimes out of the corner of my eye, I swear I can see grandma standing there holding scissors like she used when she'd threaten to "cut it off and throw it out if you don't get your hand out of your pants right now" like she used to when I was a kid. That's as close as I get to phantom. Other than that, she was a pretty good grandma. She made great chocolate fudge brownie cake. I regret scaring her to death with a practical joke.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I strongly recall the taste of what I had the day before perhaps. Has anyone else experienced this?

Do you have a mustache? May be leftover smoke smell clinging to it, the mustache note.

 

[BROBS]

THATS CALLED ADDICTION BRO

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Do you have a mustache? May be leftover smoke smell clinging to it, the mustache note.

I’m refraining from making a mustache ride joke...

 

[Epip Oc'Cabot]

Such an interesting question!

In my experience, I would say “yes” to the question of “phantom tastes”. I attribute it to being simply a usually positive aspect of some folk’s process of retaining and storing memories. Some folks may be primarily visual and/or auditory focused in terms of memories. But others may have a broader array of sensory modalities they use in retaining memories. I see it as a sort of psychological offshoot of “learning theory” in education. A lot of learners are very skewed towards visual learning, or auditory learning, or tactile learning. But some folks are reasonably comfortable in multiple modes.... they can successfully learn in two or three of the above without much effort. I think the same would logically apply to memory formation as well as it is tightly intertwined with learning.

Personally for me, I enjoy having “phantom taste” memories (and hell, probably smell memories as well) associated with the memories of my pipes and pipe tobaccos. For me it seems a richer experience than just the visual.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Such an interesting question!

In my experience, I would say “yes” to the question of “phantom tastes”. I attribute it to being simply a usually positive aspect of some folk’s process of retaining and storing memories. Some folks may be primarily visual and/or auditory focused in terms of memories. But others may have a broader array of sensory modalities they use in retaining memories. I see it as a sort of psychological offshoot of “learning theory” in education. A lot of learners are very skewed towards visual learning, or auditory learning, or tactile learning. But some folks are reasonably comfortable in multiple modes.... they can successfully learn in two or three of the above without much effort. I think the same would logically apply to memory formation as well as it is tightly intertwined with learning.

Personally for me, I enjoy having “phantom taste” memories (and hell, probably smell memories as well) associated with the memories of my pipes and pipe tobaccos. For me it seems a richer experience than just the visual.

Sounds about right although I haven’t really experienced the same thing with alcohol or food. It’s not a sensation I mind or necessarily enjoy but find it curious.

 

[Epip Oc'Cabot]

Sounds about right although I haven’t really experienced the same thing with alcohol or food. It’s not a sensation I mind or necessarily enjoy but find it curious.

Thinking about it for me, I have had some times where I HAVE had that sort of “phantom” experience with the flavor of a few food items or drinks that I especially enjoyed as well. In thinking about it, it does not happen for all flavors/tastes for me, but does seem to occur in especially noteworthy ones.

 

[mau1]

An interesting question. I haven't experienced phantom taste but I will occasionally experience a phantom smell of tobacco, and food is always involved in triggering this. Just the merest, faintest whiff and then, gone. And it will happen when I haven't smoked for days; my clothes are fresh, and so am I lol, and I don't smoke in the house. The most recent occurrence was today when I was having some honey. Weird.

 

[davek]

I actually taste pixie dust in my first bowl. Th next few of the day taste normal.