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Originally Posted by Old Soul  I was wondering if anyone here has experienced olfactory hallucinations, linking directly to any "psychic" experiences? of any type , if so I would love to know of some...
here is one deffention of this :
Olfactory aura symptoms
"Parosmia involves a distortion of the sense of smell -- the affected person reports smelling something other than the scent which is present -- for example, the person sniffs a banana but it smells like rotting flesh instead of a banana. Phantosmia involves olfactory hallucinations -- that is, there is no odorant present, but the affected person reports smelling something, usually something unpleasant."
I had an experience one day , there were no flowers in bloom as of yet, no buds on the trees and I was taken back by a strong smell of flowers and in that moment a wonderful memory of my mother,
but it was like I was in that memory in that moment all over again, I could feel her and smell her scent , all my emotions all of my being was taken into that experience
has anyone else had this? I refuse to believe that is just symptomatic of a mental illness , I think there is much more to it |
Hi. I just read your note and found myself hoping that maybe what you suggested has happened to me. I really don't think I have any sort of serious medical "malfunction" going on, like seizures, brain tumors, nasal infections, etc. .. But, I did have this incredibly weird experience last night, that both disturbed and intrigued me, and it has never happened to me before.
Basically, I had a, well, I guess, an olfactory nightmare of some sort. This odd and very unpleasant smell that I could not identify dominated and directed my dreams, which were odd and unpleasant as a result. The smell persisted for hours, instead of how we normally "get used to the smell and it goes away". There was nothing in my environment that would have produced such an odor, so I was really baffled.
Stranger still, later today when I visited an office supply store, I was drawn to this really neat stone-pictured mouse pad. What creeped me out was when I picked it up and caught a whiff of its scent... it was the EXACT smell I had dreamed about. EXACTLY. I was with a friend at the time and asked him what he thought of the smell, and was told it was neither pleasant nor unpleasant but very distinctive. I asked what he thought it smelled like, and he couldn't quite place it.
What the heck do I make of that? I am very much interested in believing that this isn't a sign of the start of some medical condition, but then what was it? It was weird enough having that smell occur on its own, without an environmental cause, without me finding that EXACT odor later today on a mouse pad in some store.
Anyway, if you have any ideas or thoughts, I'm happy to hear them! A weird psychic explanation would definitely be preferrable to the alternative. So, what do you think?
K, thanx for reading....and take care.