11-07-2022, 01:42 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-07-2022, 01:46 AM by NightskyeB4Dawn.)
As a child I was voracious reader. I would get so drawn into a book that I could smell, taste, and feel what I was reading. I would actually see people I had never met, thinking I had met them before, only to realize later that they looked like someone I had read about.
As I got older, and I got into audio books, I realized that I could smell and taste what I was hearing.
Lets jump forward to now. I am old. I have a few odd heath problems, and my congenital vision problems are slowly increasing. So at first I did not think it odd that I was noticing sudden strong odors, with no real origin. Most recognizable, some pleasant, rarely unpleasant. After this went on for a while, it began to increase, was more noticeable and started to become worrisome.
Well nothing to worry about. It was diagnosed as Synesthesia.
My brain generates smells out of nowhere, just because I see something or I hear it spoken of. It comes and goes. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it, but I have learned to identify the source fairly quickly. See an ad for brownies, and the aroma of brownies will surround me. I don't have to see them. I could be in another room and here the word brownies, and I smell them.
Laughing. Just sitting here writing about brownies and the smell is so strong, it is amazing to me that no one else can smell them. As quirky as this may sound, it is not that rare. Wondering if any of my fellow rogues, have this quirk.
As I got older, and I got into audio books, I realized that I could smell and taste what I was hearing.
Lets jump forward to now. I am old. I have a few odd heath problems, and my congenital vision problems are slowly increasing. So at first I did not think it odd that I was noticing sudden strong odors, with no real origin. Most recognizable, some pleasant, rarely unpleasant. After this went on for a while, it began to increase, was more noticeable and started to become worrisome.
Well nothing to worry about. It was diagnosed as Synesthesia.
My brain generates smells out of nowhere, just because I see something or I hear it spoken of. It comes and goes. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it, but I have learned to identify the source fairly quickly. See an ad for brownies, and the aroma of brownies will surround me. I don't have to see them. I could be in another room and here the word brownies, and I smell them.
Laughing. Just sitting here writing about brownies and the smell is so strong, it is amazing to me that no one else can smell them. As quirky as this may sound, it is not that rare. Wondering if any of my fellow rogues, have this quirk.
For every one person that read this post. About 7.99 billion have not.
Yet I still post.
