Do you smell that?

[wornoutkeyboard]

I know I just said goodnight, but this came up and since I have verbal diarreah, I thought I would share.

Strangely enough...your inner ear actually effects your sense of smell. One of g-d's little jokes, really.

Anyhoo...since we all know WOK has an inner which likes to rebel against society, I thought I would mention that I smell what the Dr. calls "phantom smells". I don't think it needs further explination.

So, I was going to get up from my uncomfortable computer chair (don't use a dining room chair unless you love your chiropracter and feel compelled to feed his kids) and I got a lovely one. Smelled like cinnimon scented bleach.

Why can't tehy ever be good smells? Gardenias? Jasmine? Coconut? Nooooo....they are always burning plastic, drain-o and orange scented sewer gas.

So shall we review? I'll be deaf (except the rining in my ears), unable to walk AND I will randomly smell choclate scented amonia?

I'm just havin too much fun here, folks.

~WOK

 

[wornoutkeyboard]

Ps- I bet you all wish you could be me.

I have the nose of a bag of Bertie Bott's Every-Flavor Beans.

And you don't.

 

[brightlyiburn]

Ps- I bet you all wish you could be me.

I have the nose of a bag of Bertie Bott's Every-Flavor Beans.

And you don't.

Anything has to be better than the big, stinky load my cat just dropped in the litter pan.

 

[rikaaim]

Anything has to be better than the big, stinky load my cat just dropped in the litter pan.

Lovely. Care to share?

 

[brightlyiburn]

Lovely. Care to share?

Sure thing!
Considering my cat is 16 pounds (and he's currently very underweight) I would say there's more than enough to go around!

 

[rikaaim]

Sure thing!
Considering my cat is 16 pounds (and he's currently very underweight) I would say there's more than enough to go around!

I use to have eight cats living in a small appartment all at once. In fact they were a collaboration of three generations of inbreading. I know very well what you have there. But for the deprived others I say share away.

 

[brightlyiburn]

I use to have eight cats living in a small appartment all at once. In fact they were a collaboration of three generations of inbreading. I know very well what you have there. But for the deprived others I say share away.

We had sixteen cats at one point. That taught us not to put off getting our females spaid.
My cat has a lot of Maine coon in him. We used to think he had a case of his sister was his mother, because he was so klutzy, but he was really just growing too fast. He developed a problem in his hips, where the tissue in the joint wears away to the point that it's like having broken hips. We need to find money for the surgery *sigh*

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Going back to those “phantom smells,” how does anybody really know that what they smell is the same as what others smell?

I’ve had reason to consider this.

For one thing, I am allergic to perfume. Mostly, they just smell awful, but the really expensive brands also give me a ball-peen headache.

Someone comes in and says, “Eww! How can you go near that smelly dog?!”

Meanwhile, I’m trying to breathe through my mouth, so their all-enveloping stink doesn’t give me another tumour.

Whenever you see a dog encounter a really strong whiff of perfume it backs up quickly and sneezes. Sometimes it will growl.

The next perfume girl who spritzes me is going to die with my teeth in her throat.

Could I have accidentally grown a dog's nose?

Perhaps I'm more of a bitch than I ever imagined.

 

[elsol]

Reminds of the Green Ketchup Panic...

Sight affects your ability to recognize a flavor...

When the green ketchup stuff was out, people would use it as a joke sending other people into a panic because they say GREEN on their burger and couldn't recognize the 'taste' of ketchup.

I know this to be true, because there are certain colors and 'sight' foods I CANNOT eat... for instance, soup, if I can't see the bottom of my spoon I can't stick the soup in my mouth. Blindfolded I can think it tastes FANTASTIC, but take the blindfold off and I start gagging as soon as I put the stuff in my mouth.

Weird... weird... weird.

Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[NoJo]

I know I just said goodnight, but this came up and since I have verbal diarreah, I thought I would share.

Strangely enough...your inner ear actually effects your sense of smell. One of g-d's little jokes, really.

Anyhoo...since we all know WOK has an inner which likes to rebel against society, I thought I would mention that I smell what the Dr. calls "phantom smells". I don't think it needs further explination.

So, I was going to get up from my uncomfortable computer chair (don't use a dining room chair unless you love your chiropracter and feel compelled to feed his kids) and I got a lovely one. Smelled like cinnimon scented bleach.

Why can't tehy ever be good smells? Gardenias? Jasmine? Coconut? Nooooo....they are always burning plastic, drain-o and orange scented sewer gas.

So shall we review? I'll be deaf (except the rining in my ears), unable to walk AND I will randomly smell choclate scented amonia?

I'm just havin too much fun here, folks.

~WOK

I don't reccomend books, especially "science fiction" books, but I just want to say that "Sirius", by Olaf Stapledon (written in the late '40s or early '50s, I think), is a remarkable book that gets into the head of a super-smart dog. He describes the d-g's world superbly. Dogs' sense of smell is much more remarkable than even popular myth has it. They can smell "in stereo", i.e. they can "see" a 3d world of smells.

The sense of smell is the most mysterious of the five. Psychotropic: it bypasses that stupid white jellyfish, the cerebrum, and acts directly on the "primitive" mid-and hindbrains. You know, love, fear, anger, sadness and stuff. But the language it speaks is incomprehensible to logic and consciousness.

I think going deaf is obviously very upsetting, especially if, like my brother, you have tinnitus, but your other senses will surely compensate and become heightened.

 

[wornoutkeyboard]

I don't reccomend books, especially "science fiction" books, but I just want to say that "Sirius", by Olaf Stapledon (written in the late '40s or early '50s, I think), is a remarkable book that gets into the head of a super-smart dog. He describes the d-g's world superbly. Dogs' sense of smell is much more remarkable than even popular myth has it. They can smell "in stereo", i.e. they can "see" a 3d world of smells.

The sense of smell is the most mysterious of the five. Psychotropic: it bypasses that stupid white jellyfish, the cerebrum, and acts directly on the "primitive" mid-and hindbrains. You know, love, fear, anger, sadness and stuff. But the language it speaks is incomprehensible to logic and consciousness.

I think going deaf is obviously very upsetting, especially if, like my brother, you have tinnitus, but your other senses will surely compensate and become heightened.

Well... I know everyone has said that my senses will compensate for the deafness (unless my brain is tricked into thill thinking I hear because of the tinnitus).....so perhaps I would expect to smell uber-perfume like V_B or know who is standing behind me because of their smell...but phantom smells? How is that supposed to be helpful at all?

I mean what in my twisted little brain benefits by smelling a nasty chemical odor that isn't there?

My brain is a sick, sick place to be.

~WOK

 

[NoJo]

Well... I know everyone has said that my senses will compensate for the deafness (unless my brain is tricked into thill thinking I hear because of the tinnitus).....so perhaps I would expect to smell uber-perfume like V_B or know who is standing behind me because of their smell...but phantom smells? How is that supposed to be helpful at all?

I mean what in my twisted little brain benefits by smelling a nasty chemical odor that isn't there?

My brain is a sick, sick place to be.

~WOK

I've had "nasal halluciantions" too, Tilda. I don't think they are that, really. I used to smell something I called "anti paint". It's the smell you sense when you go OUT of a room that's been painted, into some other part of a house. It smells like cabbage. i always get it. When I describe it to people, they tell me I'm crazy, and that there's no such smell as "anti-paint".

Perhaps it's like the negative after-image you get when you've stared at the light.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

The sense of smell is the most mysterious of the five. Psychotropic: it bypasses that stupid white jellyfish, the cerebrum, and acts directly on the "primitive" mid-and hindbrains. You know, love, fear, anger, sadness and stuff. But the language it speaks is incomprehensible to logic and consciousness.

There was some physiologist who described the nose as a little bit of naked brain thrust out into the world. Supposedly that's why odors can provoke such strong memories. I know that the smell of cottonwood trees and wet sand still takes me back to the place where we used to vacation when I was a kid.

I've heard that people suffering a stroke often smell weird things. So do people about to have a migraine or epileptic seizure, and in one of those brain-mapping experiments where they directly stimulate the cerebral cortex during surgery under local anesthesia, at least one patient reported the overpowering scent of roses when they touched one area.

Some years ago they came out with clear Pepsi-Cola. It was the same as regular pepsi but had no color. If you drank it out of the can it was okay, but if you poured it into a glass where you could see it, I swear it tasted like Seven-Up.

---dr.M.