And there are some other moment when there's your random childhood smell that comes in an unexpected moment and place, last 1 second, brings back nostalgia, then dissapear for years.
it can be anything for me a smell a sensation a feeling in the back of my head sometimes it just feels like back then for a second and then poof, it's gone
I used to work in a florist when I was a teenager and customers used to always say how lovely it must be to work in such lovely smells. I didn't have the heart to tell them I couldn't smell any of them unless I put the flowers right in my nose and sniffed.
Same, Louise, except as chocolate shop manager for 20 yrs. Customers would always comment on the wonderful aroma but the only time I could smell it was for a few short minutes on return from vacation. The smell of couverture chocolate would even permeate my clothing, skin and hair by the end of day, which everyone could apparently smell but me.
The soap shop Lush can be smelled by people for quite a few yards away. Go into a stable and one can be bowled over by the not as nice a Lush shop smell. However after a few minutes one stops noticing the smell of both places after a short while
The tar also coats everything and will actually dull a person's sense of smell and taste. It's not just filtering it out, the smoking changed their senses. I smoked pot chronically for a long time, arguably something with a comparably bad smell. I couldn't necessarily smell it on me after smoking but I could still smell it in general and could smell it on others.
A lot of them hate it too. I smoked for several years. Hated the smell. Even worse is the smell of old cig butts. But when you're smoking, it kinda dulls that sense. And the longer you smoke, the more muted your taste gets.
In addition to those who like the smell (unless it's cigarettes from high quality pipe tobacco, I personally think they all stink), some smell it as something else as an odd association. My Mom smelled and tasted cotton candy when she smoked mid grade and packed her own cigarettes. The cheap ones she described the way I would for all of them; horse urine.
Glasses are like this on multiple factors. For one, you need to learn to tune out the frames. But the one non-glasses wearers probably don’t think about is that glasses affect perspective HEAVILY. After getting a new prescription, everything looks warped and depth perception is hard for a few hours to a couple days.
I notice every time I switch between glasses and contacts. My prescription is so high that I have a major parallax effect when I turn my head, my depth perception sucks, and things are shrunk so much that a quarter through contacts looks like a nickel through glasses.
Yea. Any time i walk without my glasses everything seems bend. Which is illogival cuz if anything my glasses are bending my view. so without them it shoukd be stright lines. But nope. my brain is overcoreecting for my glasses so hard that if im without them for a little bit things are warped. it doesnt really bother me except of walkig down the stairs. It messes with me so i end up walking next to a wall to have a better idea of where to the floor and wall am I. and its the same thing i did when i got those glasses at first. Xd
Same. It has its benefits but is constantly draining. I temporarily lost my sense of smell when I had covid and found the experience bizarrely restful.
@@rachellereeve494 wow. I'm glad you found it restful! I have been terrified of losing my sense of smell. It's only went away for once cold I had as a kid. I'm sick now and I still smell everything. I honestly don't know how I'd enjoy life anymore without it. * I do work in the woods, and it's been important for me to smell bears before they get close. As well, I'm big into baking and it's not the holidays until I smell butter tarts.
@@aellalee4767 I, too, would hate to lose any of my stupidly sensitive senses. Here's to keeping one's olfactory acuity! Being able to sniff a whiff of a bear before it approaches is advantageous! Stay safe out there.
I want that glitch too. Now please.😅 But with all the stuff my neighbour do to me. I haven't had one day in the past 5 years when I was able to let fresh air in without getting 4 neighbours smells. 90% cigarette smoke to give me an asthma attack. 5% weird bathroom stuff and 5% drugs.
Not even married yet and already noseblind to eachothers farts... Either you guys waited a long time to tie the knot, or you are a very gassy couple hehe
I've had glasses since I was 5. I tried contact lenses when I was 19 and got super weirded out that there wasn't a 'frame' around the world anymore. I don't 'see' the frame of my glasses, but my vision definitely has defined edges. It was so weird to get try to get used to a view of the world around me without the frame!
I went to an acquaintance’s apartment, years ago, and there was no nose blindness to rescue you from the stench. The place was atrocious. The health department even threatened to condemn it. Dude was very gross in their living conditions.
This is a thing??? People stop smelling things like Troxler's Effect but for your nose? I can even smell myself when I'm sick. I can smell when my partner is sick. I'm pedantic about cleaning the bathroom and the fridges for this reason. I can smell when I take certain medications and now I learn that some people just stop smelling all this?
Not all senses is very sensitive. I heard more people having often more sensitive sense on hearing. But it is only around people I met, me for example have less sensibility than others in hearing but more on vision.
I don't think the skill is absent but rather, that it takes the brain longer to put perceptions to the side, which can be made worse with trauma. As ADHD brain owner and highly sensitive person (aka highly strung nervous system), I too, notice how it can takeme longer and how it's easier for me to get overwhelmed because it takes much longer. And yes, hyperfocus can sometimes lead to the protection not kicking in, but it's then focused on particularly negative perceptions, while a lot of other stuff is still fading out into the unconscious. :) So there's a spectrum to be found there and it being situational indicates that the ability is there but not always able to launch.
I personally do have this for some smells, but they still give me headaches. That's how sometimes I notice that the windows really need to be opened in a room. I don't have this for other senses though. I talked about that a lot with an allistic person, and he told me that sounds or visual imputs are generally tuned out / down if they're repetitive or annoying, which isn't the case for me at all. So I hear everything, from the constant buzzing to any random sound. Same for touch, I can't stand wearing slightly itchy clothing, leaving the tags on, having dirty hands, ect... I guess that's maybe one of the things that makes us more "detail oriented" than "big picture oriented" people. We see the trees first, then the forest
I myself am autistic. While audio and visual over-stimulation is a common expression of ASD, you can have both hyper (overactive) and hypo (underactive) processing of sensory and other information. I have next to no sense of smell, i am nose-blind to everything all the time and cannot smell unless it is right in my face. I also have pinpoint vision, so information in my peripherals is largely filtered out as "unimportant" by my brain. In contrast i do have sensitivity to sound as well as textures, particularly in my mouth (which makes eating certain foods very difficult). It is not that autistic brains lack the ability to filter and control information, but that the pathways responsible for transporting that information either have too many or too few connections.
Huh so I have bad Olfactory fatigue… thanks ASD… actually I think being able to notice the bad smell is a better superpower because that means you can take steps to make things smell nice…. Though it is a pain during any kind of exam… thanks ASD 😂
I suggest baking soda vac it up. Or vinegar water mist, let dry befor vac. Animals smell is so much more sensitive than ours and soaps and parfums can make them sick. This is a PSA for anyone wondering ,just trying to help😊
@@elrhyesseyhrle8958 thank you & yes that’s really helpful 😁. Daft question - do I sprinkle the baking soda, leave for a while and then vacuum? Thank you 😁🙏
I work at a cookie store and after a while working there, I can no longer smell the cookies. Anytime someone brings in food it smells more powerful to me lol
Im so happy to have this trait, sure it might not be as handy in every situation, but as an animal keeper it's nice to get used to the smell of manure instead of suffering in it every day😂
I used to operate these UV robots in the hospital that gave off a strange and somewhat unpleasant burning odor after use (someone said it was ozone), and very soon I was completely unable to smell it even if I tried. I kept getting surprised whenever a nurse would comment on the weird smell because I would just straight up forget it existed.
That definitely explains why I notice so many people with bad BO yet they have partners with them who obviously don't know they stink or maybe some find BO attractive 😂
I smell everything! I absolutely hate the smell of any perfume or cologne. I buy everything unscented. There's a lavender farm down the road and it stinks so strong when in bloom. Its a thousand times stronger than things scented with it. But i have a small farm, hay fields, cows, etc. The smell of horses is the best!!!
While we're on the topic of smells.... Doc, please help. I've got a serious case of tmau2. From my research, I landed on having to up the probiotics and prebiotics, so I started on homemade kefir, kombucha, a little sauerkraut (didn't like it's effect though. Felt like it made things worse), cut out chicken, kept with the hygiene, ate less eggs, but would still have lots of coffee with milk... Don't know what I'm missing. I'm seriously considering going plant based, not eating high choline stuff too much. S.O.S😢
The other side of that is people who cant filter it and get overstimulated. Its really common for ASD but I recently learned that some med professionals consider it a mental illness when people can smell themselves and become paranoid of offensive BO 🙃 gaslighting them 🙃 saying its all in their head 🙃 its not.
Dear Dr Karan. Could you please do a video about Beriberi disease? Specifically about an outbreak of it in Israel in 2003. The pediatrician who treated me (not for this, but for other reasons), was the one who found out the cause for the outbreak.
I'm highly, highly sensitive to bad smells but I tune out nice smells almost immediately it sucks 😅. I mean perfume, essential oils, scented candles, lovely for a few seconds then gone.
I try to use as much oderless materials as possible but there is always going to be certain lingering persistent smells that are difficult to locate their source.
I smell my apartment everytime i walk inside, even if i just went to take out the trash or do laundry. I think i have excessive mold spores in the air (I've been trying to grow plants and they keep getting moldy and food (like raw fruits and vegetables) left out goes bad quickly) so i probably need an air purifier
That's why the food I cook is always bland. I can't smell spices after I spent time cooking all of this. Once my husband came to kitchen and said "wow, spices kick in the nose" and I answered "really? I actually wanted to add more"
17:15 Logic of my mother. Well, not like she stopped speaking to me, but for half of my life she kept telling me I'm too fat, now I lost weight, I'm still a bit heavy but at least within the healthy weight range, even if just barely, and now my mother suddenly keeps telling me to stop and that I'm too skinny and it's not healthy.
I have involuntary loss of smell. Wish the switch worked in reverse! I wouldn't mind smelling pungent farts if it meant my nose was working as it should 😢
I can smell my home when I come in and when I’m in it. Hubby can’t smell anything yet I’m freaking out over a banana skin or stale garlic clove. It’s annoying. I can switch it off but I usually eliminate the source of the smell first. My mums house smells of smoke and sweat. It’s disgusting!
I get all crazy until I find the origin of any bad smell. And also the good ones, to prove myself that I'm not crazy when something feels certain to me (like lemon peels smell then to discover my mom was cooking something with lemon hours before)
So what you’re saying is that fasts are distinct enough that yours don’t trigger your senses, but others do. - thus you could identify an individual by their unique farts?
I don't have this glitch and I'm perfectly aware of my own sweat smell which usually smells like the food I've eaten plus the usual human sweat smell and whenever I get sunburn I can smell the roasted part
We recently got back from vacation and were shocked how bad it smelled. We asked our friend we arrived with over and over if our house normally stank this bad. Turns out the cat sitter had skipped on the boxes 😅
Sometimes if I come home from being away for a few hours I can smell what my house smells like, and then I spray and light some incense because 🤢 much as I keep my house spotless it still smells like my roommates fish tank which he keeps spotless too
Dr karan, pls elaborate on the recent deat# of china badminton player due to heart attack. Saw his body convulsing, but wonder why there is no immediate CPR 😢
Jokes on me! I always see my nose because my left eye is blind. Well, I say that, but if I am focusing on something like a video game , then I don't really see it.
Yeah, I always see my nose ..I mean, my brain doesn't close that focus off as it does for other people 😂😂😂😂. I can also just breathe through my mouth without smelling anything.....basically shut off my sense of smell off......which I recently learned at the age of 29 that not everyone can do that.
I was so ill with a soap-tasting emesis that I couldn't smell how absolutely rancid the vomit was. The paramedic said I was lucky. I said I was sorry. Oh, that poor cleaner of the hospital bathroom I had to empty my bowels in.
"to stop your brain being overwhelmed with useless information" interesting, so this is what its like to be non autistic... to anyone wondering what its like to be autistic, THIS. My nose is constantly overwhelmed because I literally smell EVERYTHING. It's very exhausting
Whenever i smell a new distinct smell or taste a new flavor my throat closes up just enough that i notice it, and i get a tiny bit light headed. Is this a "glitch" or a defence mechanism of some kind?
Now explain how i was used to workin on sewer lines but my roommate smells like something crawled up and died, was able to deal with everyones corn but god forbid my roommate
