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To say that I experienced a mental breakdown would be putting it lightly. However, in this time I experienced altered smell. I haven't spoken about this much.
by echelon_musk 4y ago
To say that I experienced a mental breakdown would be putting it lightly.
However, in this time I experienced altered smell. I haven't spoken about this much. Nearly all food smelled rancid, putrid and rotting. Despite visually appearing to be free from decay - it was normal food. Humans stank, including myself and it was a horrible time.
Eventually, also with medication, I was able to regain a more normal sense of smell. I suspect that human smell is something like a radio - capable of perceiving far more than we imagine, but that neurochemistry dictates where that smell frequency is dialled to.
Perhaps as humans we are ordinarily on the evolutionarily optimal frequency, a kind of middle ground, despite much more being possible.
- LoganDark 4y agoI am unable to drink milk. I used to love milk. Used to drink milk all the time. All different kinds of milk. But one single time someone made me a bowl of cereal with spoiled milk. One single taste of spoiled milk and it was over. Well, my ability to drink milk. Was over. Now all milk tastes and smells spoiled. All milk. No matter how fresh it is. No matter where it came from. I can't drink it. It's so strongly rancid even though absolutely nobody else can tell what it is I'm tasting. I don't understand this. I can put any flavoring like vanilla or strawberry in the milk and it'll be perfectly fine. But for some reason, perfectly fresh, healthy milk just... tastes spoiled. Always. And it always will. Why? I loved milk. I love milk. There's no reason for it all to taste so terrible. I know what I'm tasting isn't the milk. I know milk is supposed to taste fresh and nice. I even know exactly what I'm supposed to taste, because it's what I taste if I mix anything else with the milk. But milk by itself is just undrinkable. :(
- colonCapitalDee 4y agoThat sucks. > I can put any flavoring like vanilla or strawberry in the milk and it'll be perfectly fine. Could you use this to train yourself to taste milk normally again?
- Jarwain 4y agoThis feels like a silly idea but if you take a glass of fresh milk and a glass of spoiled milk, would you be able to distinguish them? Would smelling them side-by-side maybe recalibrate things?
- LoganDark 4y agoI smell the spoiled inside the fresh milk. Somehow. Like, I'm detecting whatever ingredient causes spoiledness, far before the milk has actually spoiled, but it just smells/tastes like the exact pure concept of spoil.