I wish I had more of these dreams I had
one dream I woke up so happy it was so
real I remember being in the kitchen and
all of a sudden I smelled broccoli I
took out of the fridge it was just so
real and when I woke up I was happy my
friends would say things like we’d be
near movie theater and they’d say I
smell popcorn and I actually had no idea
that what they were saying related to
something they were taking in through
their senses from the environment Bryan
the train to work in the morning the
train’s pretty crowded so you’re really
close to the person next to you see some
older woman
her hair was inches from my face it was
touching my face and I was just grateful
that I couldn’t smell I went on
believing for so many years that I had a
sense of smell that had to learn how to
use it it wasn’t till at least midway
through elementary school that I said
okay this is the real thing that I can’t
do my father can’t smell smell smell
assumed that I would not have a sense of
smell my earliest memories are my mother
sitting down with me was scratching
sniffs and I always just remember
thinking okay everything just smells the
same as I was working in the kitchen
everything was about to smell it was the
smell of veal stock bubbling on the
stove it was the smell of butter melting
in the pan smell gave flavor to all of
the different ingredients I was working
with without a sense of smell eating for
me became like my world had faded from
color to black and white I understand
it’s very common for people with out a
sense of smell to not be able to taste
but that’s not the case with me I have a
very vivid sensitive list
I can taste I have a true case which is
bitter sweet salty sour but I don’t
taste flavors so
you know between two bowls of ice cream
I’m not gonna be able to tell which is
vanilla which is chocolate if it’s a
really intense thing right in my nose
like for example going to the dentist
and having nitrous oxide I feel like I
smell that it’s like a really yummy
thing to eat like yummy chocolate ice
cream but it sort of fills up the whole
head so there was one time in Seattle
there was a rose and I concentrated very
very very hard and I got a faint whiff
of it and that was probably the only
time in my life that I’ve ever smelled
anything I went for a jog one morning in
August it was early in the morning it
was raining they were playing movies in
the park it was the summer time they
were supposed to play Wayne’s World that
night got rained out I was on my way
home a few blocks from home and I was
hit by a car she was nighttime I had had
my lights everything on my bike guy
opened his car door without looking I
went flying I don’t remember when I was
flipped up onto the windshield and
fractured the back of my skull or when I
was flipped out on to
remember waking up in the hospital with
needles in my arm so what’s going on and
they told me he got hit by a car and
went online started searching you know
lost his smell head injury this is such
a thing I didn’t even know it existed my
life is totally different now there was
a smell always constantly around me it
smelled a little bit like a garden
without the flowers I just figured you
know based on the shape of my nose and
the direction of smell that it was
probably smelling my brain and and I
liked it because it was a smell I would
later learn that this was something
called a phantom smell and they’re
incredibly common with people who lose
their sense of smell
you can tell each season with the smell
on the air and everything and I don’t
get that anymore so I lost my sense of
smell and because of that I am very
thankful that I was able to find that I
had a olfactory Grove meningioma which
is a brain tumor around the olfactory
bulb and was able to get it removed and
taken care of
the scent of my leg of my children you
can tell apart from any any other kid
and it’s really a bonding thing and it’s
like I’ve had to like going touch her
mooring hugger more
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there are things that people just can’t
describe to you I’d really love to know
my wife smells like when my son smells
like I think he smells sweet and you
know like a kid I just I wish I knew I
wish I could smell when kids pass gas
that I know what other people are making
such a fuss about think it like sort of
things the inside of your nose
there’s this new car smell that everyone
talks about and they can’t describe it
my baby and I smell my baby their new
babies smell really nice barbecue did
her ass people come into my room and
they’ll say how that smells just like
you in it I don’t really get that I’ve
heard you’d say he smells like it’s
gonna rain I just don’t I can’t
understand how it can smell like the
weather wintertime which was always a
the fireplaces on my block back home was
always a good smell growing up as a kid
I know the summers gonna come up and
there’s gonna be barbecues that’s
something I’m gonna miss to just good
times I linked it with certain smells I
realized that I was picking up a smell
then it clicked and I’m like oh my gosh
it’s the exhaust and gas fumes from the
bus it was like someone you know cracked
open the window and you know I had that
little bit of hope that I was helping my
mother to cook dinner because I couldn’t
stay away from the kitchen and I had a
sprig of fresh rosemary the herb and all
of a sudden distance
hit me out of the blue this one singular
smell and at first I don’t know what it
was because it was so strong and so
potent and felt like it completely took
over my brain
I forgot that smell be that strong even
if I take a shower and I put cream on
perfume and I want to smell like a woman
it it’s just missing and I do isolate a
lot more now because I feel safer just
being with myself people get angry you
should be really upset that you can’t
smell you should work on this and
rehabilitate it but for me it’s a
non-issue it’s something that I’ve been
curious about I know he’s kind of wonder
just because it is attached to memories
so much that I’m wondering what I’m
missing out on it’s like let’s say on
the bus something smells bad cuz some
kid had something bad at lunch and
everybody’s like gagging and I’m just
sitting back and so it makes me feel
kind of special it’s been a research
done 10,000 flavors that I will never
know and that’s you know 10,000
conversations I’ll never have there’s
this old guy at work and he was a close
talker and I thought who’s try to avoid
him whenever I could he’s the nice guy
you know his breath
now it doesn’t doesn’t bother anyone
we’re cool
smell is linked to some of the most
important parts of our lives it’s linked
to our memories is linked to our child
it’s linked to our past it says a lot
about what we eat
how we choose to eat where we like to go
what we like to put on our skin it
brings us closer to people
makes us recognize the people that we
love it’s complicated and it’s not
completely understood by the scientific
community but we do know that it begins
with a molecule and there are many
different stops and signals along the
way
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you
you
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one dream I woke up so happy it was so
real I remember being in the kitchen and
all of a sudden I smelled broccoli I
took out of the fridge it was just so
real and when I woke up I was happy my
friends would say things like we’d be
near movie theater and they’d say I
smell popcorn and I actually had no idea
that what they were saying related to
something they were taking in through
their senses from the environment Bryan
the train to work in the morning the
train’s pretty crowded so you’re really
close to the person next to you see some
older woman
her hair was inches from my face it was
touching my face and I was just grateful
that I couldn’t smell I went on
believing for so many years that I had a
sense of smell that had to learn how to
use it it wasn’t till at least midway
through elementary school that I said
okay this is the real thing that I can’t
do my father can’t smell smell smell
assumed that I would not have a sense of
smell my earliest memories are my mother
sitting down with me was scratching
sniffs and I always just remember
thinking okay everything just smells the
same as I was working in the kitchen
everything was about to smell it was the
smell of veal stock bubbling on the
stove it was the smell of butter melting
in the pan smell gave flavor to all of
the different ingredients I was working
with without a sense of smell eating for
me became like my world had faded from
color to black and white I understand
it’s very common for people with out a
sense of smell to not be able to taste
but that’s not the case with me I have a
very vivid sensitive list
I can taste I have a true case which is
bitter sweet salty sour but I don’t
taste flavors so
you know between two bowls of ice cream
I’m not gonna be able to tell which is
vanilla which is chocolate if it’s a
really intense thing right in my nose
like for example going to the dentist
and having nitrous oxide I feel like I
smell that it’s like a really yummy
thing to eat like yummy chocolate ice
cream but it sort of fills up the whole
head so there was one time in Seattle
there was a rose and I concentrated very
very very hard and I got a faint whiff
of it and that was probably the only
time in my life that I’ve ever smelled
anything I went for a jog one morning in
August it was early in the morning it
was raining they were playing movies in
the park it was the summer time they
were supposed to play Wayne’s World that
night got rained out I was on my way
home a few blocks from home and I was
hit by a car she was nighttime I had had
my lights everything on my bike guy
opened his car door without looking I
went flying I don’t remember when I was
flipped up onto the windshield and
fractured the back of my skull or when I
was flipped out on to
remember waking up in the hospital with
needles in my arm so what’s going on and
they told me he got hit by a car and
went online started searching you know
lost his smell head injury this is such
a thing I didn’t even know it existed my
life is totally different now there was
a smell always constantly around me it
smelled a little bit like a garden
without the flowers I just figured you
know based on the shape of my nose and
the direction of smell that it was
probably smelling my brain and and I
liked it because it was a smell I would
later learn that this was something
called a phantom smell and they’re
incredibly common with people who lose
their sense of smell
you can tell each season with the smell
on the air and everything and I don’t
get that anymore so I lost my sense of
smell and because of that I am very
thankful that I was able to find that I
had a olfactory Grove meningioma which
is a brain tumor around the olfactory
bulb and was able to get it removed and
taken care of
the scent of my leg of my children you
can tell apart from any any other kid
and it’s really a bonding thing and it’s
like I’ve had to like going touch her
mooring hugger more
[Music]
there are things that people just can’t
describe to you I’d really love to know
my wife smells like when my son smells
like I think he smells sweet and you
know like a kid I just I wish I knew I
wish I could smell when kids pass gas
that I know what other people are making
such a fuss about think it like sort of
things the inside of your nose
there’s this new car smell that everyone
talks about and they can’t describe it
my baby and I smell my baby their new
babies smell really nice barbecue did
her ass people come into my room and
they’ll say how that smells just like
you in it I don’t really get that I’ve
heard you’d say he smells like it’s
gonna rain I just don’t I can’t
understand how it can smell like the
weather wintertime which was always a
the fireplaces on my block back home was
always a good smell growing up as a kid
I know the summers gonna come up and
there’s gonna be barbecues that’s
something I’m gonna miss to just good
times I linked it with certain smells I
realized that I was picking up a smell
then it clicked and I’m like oh my gosh
it’s the exhaust and gas fumes from the
bus it was like someone you know cracked
open the window and you know I had that
little bit of hope that I was helping my
mother to cook dinner because I couldn’t
stay away from the kitchen and I had a
sprig of fresh rosemary the herb and all
of a sudden distance
hit me out of the blue this one singular
smell and at first I don’t know what it
was because it was so strong and so
potent and felt like it completely took
over my brain
I forgot that smell be that strong even
if I take a shower and I put cream on
perfume and I want to smell like a woman
it it’s just missing and I do isolate a
lot more now because I feel safer just
being with myself people get angry you
should be really upset that you can’t
smell you should work on this and
rehabilitate it but for me it’s a
non-issue it’s something that I’ve been
curious about I know he’s kind of wonder
just because it is attached to memories
so much that I’m wondering what I’m
missing out on it’s like let’s say on
the bus something smells bad cuz some
kid had something bad at lunch and
everybody’s like gagging and I’m just
sitting back and so it makes me feel
kind of special it’s been a research
done 10,000 flavors that I will never
know and that’s you know 10,000
conversations I’ll never have there’s
this old guy at work and he was a close
talker and I thought who’s try to avoid
him whenever I could he’s the nice guy
you know his breath
now it doesn’t doesn’t bother anyone
we’re cool
smell is linked to some of the most
important parts of our lives it’s linked
to our memories is linked to our child
it’s linked to our past it says a lot
about what we eat
how we choose to eat where we like to go
what we like to put on our skin it
brings us closer to people
makes us recognize the people that we
love it’s complicated and it’s not
completely understood by the scientific
community but we do know that it begins
with a molecule and there are many
different stops and signals along the
way
[Music]
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[Music]
you
you
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