Does Anyone Have Smell Memories?

[angerball]

yes. . . i too have issues with particular smells. my heart begins to pound. my mouth goes dry. this also occures when i am eating. a taste will stimulate an unexpected memory.

 

[Tiana]

I also haave olfactory hallucinations. Mostly outside scents, sometimes pleasant, sometimes a strong, horrible metallic scent to the point of taste. That one's bad.

 

[dljwhitewolf]

Yes on the smell thing, only I know what mine are and some make me very sick, like burning baby flesh, nausating even to write it down.
I think even normal people associate smells with good and bad, like someone remembering a grandparents smell or grandmothers perfume.
Through smell you may be able to remember, its your brain giving you hints.
Jot down smells and what feelings they bring, and maybe you can peice your puzzle together.

 

[Tiana]

I can't get rid of it... it's all over me... this mad ackrid, chemical smell... he has to work tomorrow and would only freak out if I woke him up. He can't heelp. what can help? it just won't go away. iy's like all the pills I take are permiating through my skin, the way garlic does if one eats a heavy diet of it.
I am trying so hard not to lose it, I've been up all night and I see my psychiatrist today. he called a cop and hauled me away in a police car once from his office in front of just evryone, thank God I cut in a place he can't see. My dad in his coffin smelled of stale smoke. It's not going away......

 

[Deleted member 93]

You need to let him know you cut to help you. And what on earth happened for him to have you escorted by the police?

The smells do ease in time with healing but you will not heal if not open and honest.

 

[Tiana]

I cut up both my arms with scissors during a rapid cycling episode that was finished days before I saw him. I was the one to make the appointment in the first place to have him re-evaluate my meds. I hadn't been sleeping or showering, just quitly sitting, watching tv. Although the cuts were nowhere near anything resembling a suicide attempt, and I told him that was not my goal(he should know the difference between the two), I guess he didn't trust me or my husband who came with me to go to a hospital. It would have been far less traumatic if we'd have gone on our own. I had never been in a police car before, and, as is my past experience with law enforcement, he belttled and berated me by asking about my "crazy" condition and asking rhetoricals like why can't you control yourself and stop annoying people.
I wound up waking him at 6 because I can't go in the bathroom by myself, and I had to take a shower. He was a jerk at first, poor guy, I startled him out of sleep, I'd be a jerk, too. He quickly snapped to in a way he never had before, he was able to tell me all the rational things that fell out of my head, making me aware af why the hallucinations were happening(around 5 they got audible in my head, not in a Berkowitz kill kind of way, rather my mother's voice calling out for me- she's still way with us), the smell, tremors, he really talked me the ledge of crazy, and I was able to get 3 hours of sleep, and my visit went well today.
Hugs,
Tiana

 

[Daomadan]

I have smell memories. Whenever I smell a certain type of cologne it makes me remember/relive the time with my ex-boyfriend who was abusive. It's a fight or flight reaction when I smell it and there's nothing I can really do but breath calmly and tell myself that he isn't there...

You're not alone in this.

 

[Skyla]

Yes I know the "trigger smell" oh to well! When my dad died, he had Drakkar cologne on, if someone near me has it on...I get anxiety! :(

 

[responsiblek9]

Certain musty odors I can smell on some men can set me right over the edge . The smell of a wildfire is another one. Smell is one of the strongest triggers for me .

 

[9Lives]

me too

Yes, I smell the same odd smells unexpectedly too. Especially on my hands - a strong metallic, sour smell. I've asked my ex & my current spouse to smell my hands & they said they didn't smell anything weird & that it's just in my mind. I also get disgusted by eating noises - I can't be around anyone that is making them nor can I stand to listen to myself. I will actually swallow a particularily noisy bite whole to avoid the disgusting noises. This drives my husband nuts! I'm not sure why this bothers me. I could be wrong but, I think I'm associating eating noises with sexual ones & it totally grosses me out! Maybe the weird smell is the same thing too? It's strange but, I guess I'm with you too!

 

[Grama-Herc]

Hey 9! Isn't it amazing how much we all have in common AND even more important is the fact we can discover that the things we can't explain are not as odd or different as we thought. From reading the post I also have found that a lot of us don't know what the smell is or where it comes from or why we smell out smells at all. What do they represent? Better yet, do we really want to know what these smells really mean. Will we ever know? Does it really even matter if we do find out. But it is for sure we are all in the same boat RIGHT!