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originally posted by: JAGStorm
I have had two interesting smell incidents in my life.
This morning I was very sound asleep, having a terrible dream. All of a sudden, I smell the most wonderful smell I have ever smelled in my life,
flowerish, lollipop, fruitish smell, it is hard to explain, but it was the most beautiful lovely smell, I woke up instantly and there was my daughter looking at me! I wonder if my subconscience picked up on her and helped me wake from my awful dream. She wasn't wearing perfume and once I woke the smell was gone!
Many years earlier, I had just given birth. My sister bought a kids meal from Mcdonalds. I was ready to vomit instantly due to the checmical smell. It was like the worst most intense blacktop tar, petroleum smell. It was the plastic baggie and toy in the meal. My sense of smell was heightened and I could immediately pick up those toxic fumes. Shampoo was the same way. There were only two shampoos that didn't smell like poison at that time. My ultra sense of smell went away really quickly. In a week or so, but it really got me wondering about some of those products. By the way, the one shampoo that didn't have a chemical smell was Burts Bees!
I wonder if we are so overexposed to fragrance that we have lost our natural gift. It's like when you go on vacation and you come back and your house smells different. When you live there you can't smell it, but when you are away from it enough it is very evident. I find that a lot of people are at the point where they have no sense of smell, which also goes a long with no sense of taste. Is it the food we are eating, the chemicals all around us, the cigarettes, the drugs, the medicine? I feel like something very unnatural is going on.
. I find that a lot of people are at the point where they have no sense of smell, which also goes a long with no sense of taste. Is it the food we are eating, the chemicals all around us, the cigarettes, the drugs, the medicine? I feel like something very unnatural is going on.
originally posted by: RAY1990
a reply to: rickymouse
The zinc thing is interesting.
What do you make of my heightened sense of smell regarding vinegar when I've been really ill?
I've never really made heads nor tails over it.
originally posted by: RAY1990
a reply to: rickymouse
It's overpowering and seemingly only when I've had bad cases of the flu, I once had pretty bad case of bronchitis as a kid that lasted 4-6 weeks. It was probably the worst infection I ever had and I didn't experience it once.
Thanks for the post, you've filled me in on issues of the body a few times, you're a wealth of knowledge when it comes to such things
As for the gas thing, I've noticed over the last few years I can get bloated after pairing certain things. Dark beers and the likes of lamb (I don't eat pork much) it doesn't happen often but I have experienced a light-headedness. I always put it down to raised blood pressure due to being bloated.
Genuinely don't know if that makes sense but that's what it felt like at the time. I'm not even sure if it's the same thing... I don't mind the bloating or anything just that I often end up with a headache, which like the rest of my body at the time, felt like it was under added pressure.
The human body is a weird thing, it's usually a combination of a few things that cause undesirable outcomes but with that being said not all of us treat it with the proper respect and nourishment it deserves.
I'm definitely guilty in that regards. We hit a wall at some point in our lives when the body gets sick of the abuse, something gives. When that happened to me I became allergic to shellfish which is sad in itself if you love jumbo prawns but for me it also meant a hyper sensitivity to other things too, the sun being one of them.
Which again is a shame, I look good with a tan.