When you feel hungry, do you imagine food?

[R_1]

Let's say you're hungry right now. There's nothing around you. What do you imagine?

[Elizabeth Bennet]

I don't normally recall food, I just feel the void and get increasingly angry, until I eat or the energy moves somewhere else in my body (don't know if it makes sense, but can't think of any other way to explain it.)

[Guest]

I imagine nothing. I am unable to imagine these things.

[Sister Mercurial]

Usually, I run through a list of what's in the fridge and make some sort of compromise between what needs using up soonest, what I'm in the mood for and what's different from everything else I've had/am going to have that day.  Then I go find and cook it.  If I'm not at home, I think about the best possible compromise between what I'm in the mood for, what I can afford and what I'm likely to find in that area within a reasonable timeframe, then go in search.  

[Rockblossom]

Something I learned many years ago:  When I feel hungry, I ask myself what I want to eat.  If I am really hungry, something almost immediately pops into my head, like "soup" or "a tuna sandwich" or "a green salad" and I can imagine the taste and feel.  If I'm exhausted and haven't eaten in too long, sometimes the answer is "anything with protein and carbs!"  And there are times when I "feel" hungry, but I can't really figure out what I want.  That's a classic sign that I'm not really hungry for food, but that I am getting dehydrated and need water and maybe some electrolytes.  A glass of water, or sometimes a glass of water with  a packet of Emergen-C for the vitamins and electrolytes, and the "hunger" stops.  

[Jelle]

2 hours ago, Rockblossom said:

Something I learned many years ago:  When I feel hungry, I ask myself what I want to eat.  If I am really hungry, something almost immediately pops into my head, like "soup" or "a tuna sandwich" or "a green salad" and I can imagine the taste and feel.  If I'm exhausted and haven't eaten in too long, sometimes the answer is "anything with protein and carbs!"  And there are times when I "feel" hungry, but I can't really figure out what I want.  That's a classic sign that I'm not really hungry for food, but that I am getting dehydrated and need water and maybe some electrolytes.  A glass of water, or sometimes a glass of water with  a packet of Emergen-C for the vitamins and electrolytes, and the "hunger" stops.  

Quite same here I always imagine what I fancy at the moment.

[Calliers]

If I'm hungry I envision my tastiest favorite meals. The meals I like the most, like meat pies and sausage rolls and noodles. Things like that. I also love calamari and salad.

[mercaesan]

I said other because what I imagine is the feeling of eating. Like, the food in my stomach and how it feels when it starts powering my body and I start feeling better.

[A User]

If I'm hungry I imagine the feeling of food and nothing more 

Just, I need food because I feel like it, and that's all

 

Other times just nothing, I want food

[Calliers]

Strange thing, sometimes I'll get a craving for just drink. Now I know drink is a type of food per se, but I just want my favorite drink or a specific drink at that time like Coke, Mountain Dew or a Monster.

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