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Odd. I touch my face almost compulsively, but I have an extremely poor sense of smell. I smell my hands right now, I can't tell what they smell like at all.
by xyzzy_plugh 7y ago
Odd. I touch my face almost compulsively, but I have an extremely poor sense of smell. I smell my hands right now, I can't tell what they smell like at all.
- sdenton4 7y agoSelf-smelling could be a mechanism for figuring out self-smell for the purposes of not getting confused by it when trying to distinguish environmental sources. In which case it would be perfectly reasonable to not smell 'anything' when actively smelling oneself.