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but nothing else, just names
example: I'll see a name written down, or I'll meet someone, and automatically get a smell related to that name- and I can hear myself sniffing the air. most of the time, the smells I get relating to certain names don't even match the person (like I mean the person doesn't smell like I think they do), and a lot of times I've thought to myself.. actually, well, that person doesn't smell- but I thought they would because of the smells I get from the names anyone else |
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When ever I see a name of someone whom I don't like, I get a "poopy" kind of smell.
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That is so interesting, rv.
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Most of my hallucinations are olfactory. A few days ago, out of nowhere, I smelled freshly baked sugary donuts with absolute vividness that I thought I had to be in a bakery and not my workplace. I smell roses a lot.
I also smell certain months. Certain times I smell the month of October even if it's not October. It has a very powerful smell and has so many meanings attached to it. Every once in a while I can smell Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. If the breeze is just so I can smell my hometown, and sometimes in the breeze I can smell a grassy meadow blooming with dandelions connected to my hometown. |
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if you have taken any biology or health classes in school, or you talk to your doctors or you have been in therapy with a therapist you may already know this - Smell association is normal and its instinct that stems back in time to the cave man days, its also a learned behavior that people learn to do in all levels of school and in therapy too. people learn to smell associate even before they can talk. a parent holds a flower or food up to the childs nose and says smell and makes a sniffing motion. then children and adults too notice when someone smells clean or dirty, perfume or cologne, smell the roses, or other associated to a person place or thing including names. smell association is just one of those normal things. its even used in therapy techniques like meditation, grounding exercises because they represent calmness and happiness being grounded. I myself associate my therapists and their names with various smells not because he/she smelled like that but because I know he/she enjoyed certain smells, he/ she enjoyed scented objects in her therapy room, I see or hear his/her name and I automatically take a deep sniffing, grounding breath through my nose or mouth or both and can sometimes have the normal olfactory hallucination of smelling something I associate as one of his/her smells. my autistic/schizophrenic daughter associates my given name and the words mom and mommy according to flowers because both my wife and I love flowers. Roses for me and lilacs for my wife. we dont smell like those flowers but in our daughter's mind thats how she associates smells to us. Sometimes this normal to human beings smell association vs her autism or schizophrenia symptoms will send her on the wrong track, through working with her treatment providers she has learned how to tell when it's her normal to human's olfactory process vs when her psychotic type hallucinations because of her autism and schizophrenia send her on the wrong track. for the most part smell association with people, places and things is normal. if like me you are intrigued by how the human body and the senses work talk with your doctors. doctors are fantastic for having all those informational pamphlets on various problems and how the body works including the senses. you can also go to your local library or college library where you may find educational encyclopedias and textbooks used by biology classes / health classes that teach about the human body and all the functions including the sense of smell. |
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