I don’t consider any part of my personality as a super power, although I am aware I have a few oddities on me.
Smells play a very big part of my reality.
I can “smell” a shift in air humidity. This led to me learning I can cook by my nose, as I can smell the very onset of burning or low content of salt or spices.
Anyone else can smell crickets?
it was always easier to maintain a memory if I translate it into an image.
I gave differents colours in my mind to the days of the week, I color coded my emotions in order to know how things are inside my head and I have a colour bar to range my dialogue intensity to other.
noticing something is “wrong” around or out of place always seemed easy, be it because there is a sound too much or missing or something is somewhere it doesn’t belong or missing
I always thought these were normal things, growing up. Just like having a narrator voice in my head (this one comes really handy when reading a book; all character have a voice and the narrator has another).
Crickets, grasshoppers, ladybugs, ants are all smelly insects to me. My wife thought I was crazy for a while hunting down bugs and smells in the house by sniffing like a hound. Now she just goes with it.
I can smell small amounts of sugar added to water — very helpful when we get coffee on the road and can’t tell whose cup is whose.
There’s a lot I can smell from bathroom smells and body odours, which can be more of a curse than useful.
I think I have the same cooking technique as you, I’m constantly smelling and adjusting by smell.
Wait so not everyone can smell ladybugs? I think they smell horrible. I don’t detect ants though. Grasshoppers have a distinct smell to me too but I don’t find that nearly as offputting.
I don’t consider any part of my personality as a super power, although I am aware I have a few oddities on me.
I can “smell” a shift in air humidity. This led to me learning I can cook by my nose, as I can smell the very onset of burning or low content of salt or spices.
Anyone else can smell crickets?
I gave differents colours in my mind to the days of the week, I color coded my emotions in order to know how things are inside my head and I have a colour bar to range my dialogue intensity to other.
I always thought these were normal things, growing up. Just like having a narrator voice in my head (this one comes really handy when reading a book; all character have a voice and the narrator has another).
I’m with you on crickets.
Crickets, grasshoppers, ladybugs, ants are all smelly insects to me. My wife thought I was crazy for a while hunting down bugs and smells in the house by sniffing like a hound. Now she just goes with it.
I can smell small amounts of sugar added to water — very helpful when we get coffee on the road and can’t tell whose cup is whose.
There’s a lot I can smell from bathroom smells and body odours, which can be more of a curse than useful.
I think I have the same cooking technique as you, I’m constantly smelling and adjusting by smell.
Wait so not everyone can smell ladybugs? I think they smell horrible. I don’t detect ants though. Grasshoppers have a distinct smell to me too but I don’t find that nearly as offputting.
Ever got the “are you part dog or something”? Always makes me laugh.
Smell is undervalued in humans. I could smells if my partner was about to have her period before she started using contraception.
I have, and I’ve been able to smell the same thing.
Definitely agree it’s undervalued, I don’t even think you need to have an especially good nose, you just need to stop and do some sniffing.
I agree. It is possible to train the sense of smell. And it should be actively trained.