aroma coma
You know how you can sometimes smell a familiar but misplaced aroma? Like maybe the smell of bacon while you’re out driving in the country? Every time that happens to me, I think that I’m really in a coma lying in a hospital bed and the aromas that I smell are really the result of the doctors waving the source of that particular smell under my nose in order to get some type of reaction to prove that I’m still alive.
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I’m afraid of something like this ALL THE TIME!
(My variation is that I’m afraid that I’m actually in a mental hospital, imagining all of this o_o)
now i’m going to think that… haha
interesting idea :]
Wow, thats a scary consept! FREAKY!!!
I often imagine that sounds that I hear that other people don’t hear as of the same effect…
When I was a kid, every time I would sit on the toilet I would fear I was actually daydreaming in school, just peeing on my chair with everyone laughing at me
this is quite possibly the best paranoia I’ve ever heard. I’m also partial to it, though, so perhaps I’m biased.
The same thing happens to me, only it’s always the aroma of dust at a baseball field… strange. I wish mine was cake or apple pastries or something.
I guess I never really linked the two things together, but it makes sense. Maybe we all exist in some “coma-land”… wouldn’t that be creepy? Everyone who dies in our world is either waking up or being taken off of life-support in the real world.
Cue Twilight Zone music…
I still have that feeling and I am 27
wow that is intresting
That happens to me all the time and my husband thinks I’m a freak for it.
Now this is something worth being in a coma over.
Obvious PhotoShop. Lawls
OMG i have the same thing, plus whenever i hear an alarm or beeping noise. And i was just talking to a friend about it yesterday, and today i see it on stumbleupon, omg, perhaps its true… WAKE UP DAMMIT!!!
ever since I read this, every time that happens to me, I seriously question my physical state! haha
i seriously thought the same thing!!
this is so odd..
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A deja-vu is a glitch in the matrix, don’t you know anything?
wow, if that were true, i would be in your head.
well, i guess that’s just about as possible as anything else.
dunno.. I only think like that when my life becomes routine..
That happened to me the other day, driving — I can’t think of what the smell was now, but it was something completely out of the blue, like banana pudding or peach cobbler. The best part was how distinctive and rich the scent was; I was able to hold on to it for several minutes. Then, of course, I thought I had a brain tumor or something. Ha ha.
i think the odds that we are living in a sub-reality, or super-reality, whatever you want to call it, are something like 99.9%.
how’s that for a mindfuck!
hmmm…. very interesting….. and the even more neurotic thing about that is that there is NO proof that you aren’t in a coma with a bacon-wielding doctor. Of course that would make ME part of your neurotic dream, which begs the question…. what is reality?
I say enjoy that smell of bacon! And if you are in a coma, I hope the family is taking good care of you.
Don’t worry Jenny,…… if it’s true and you ARE in a coma, then your husband is just a figment of your comatose mind……
see… problem solved.
G….. what do you do to keep your life from becoming routine?
The mind…or perception is such a powerful thing.
I have that too!! Its really weird, almost like something just goes off and I smell something strange and familiar. Glad I’m not the only one.
what about when you smell donkey poo? They wouldn’t very realistically cart that into a hospital room.
lol, that’s pretty paranoic
my own body makes me claustrophobic……..like its too full of stuff and it cant get out….like the way an egg is full to the brim…unless it is smashed and the insides spill out…..then i feel relieved that there is a relief but then i dont feel relieved because i have to smash my body to be happy
Well obviously you are not in a coma. Otherwise you would not be able to make posts on the internet about it.
It can be “an aura” related to mild epilepsy. My daughter used to have profound moments of de ja vue (a sense of having been, seen or experienced something in the past) – where she saw something she “recognized” but new it was a false memory. She then developed epilepsy and we discovered the de ja vue was caused by the electrical stimulation of the area of the brain related to time – present, past, future. Epilepsy is erratic electrical stimulation or over stimulation in the brain caused by a neural malfunction. My daughters aura became a warning for her. As her epilepsy developed she would black out after the “aura” of de ja vue.
Smelling bacon or other aromas can be caused by a false electrical stimulation of the olfactory nerve.
I hope your false aromas are not fore warning you of epilepsy.
Whenever I am looking at the ceiling I wait for it open up and my real eyes open to find myself lying in a hospital from a coma. I used to worry that my whole life has been a dream that I’ve had whilst in a coma.
Sometimes when I listen to music I close my eyes… and then I wonder if I’m actually asleep and only dreaming about the music – then I start to wonder how much of the day has been the dream and how much was real. I’m always relieved to find I wasn’t dreaming after all.
in history i was listening to the professor lecture us and i smelled caramel. i thought i was at the fair.
It’s something to think about. When I was a young child I thought that someone was recording everything and watching it like a tv show.. I often have deja…
Okay, it is time to wake now. This has gone on long enough.On the count of three…one…two…
What would it matter? If that were the case, yes, in “actuality” you would be in a coma, but since your mind is active and alert and you have developed strong connections in what, theoretically, is not “reality,” waking up from the coma would be extremely devastating. Heck, you’d be losing everyone you know and love and replacing them with a cold, unfamiliar world.
Just a thought.
i get that all the time too.
Christ, I’ve had that since being a child too. It would either be a certain smell of fire or a farm.
Or maybe we’re in the Matrix and they just messed up what the country smells like
bob, i like your theory! some people with migraines have this weird sensation as well, but i’m gonna blame the matrix from now on!
I often think the same thing, but then it occurs to me, if I were in a coma, I would like to think that my mind could imagine me in a much cooler job than the one I have…
Wow….thanks guys, now i’ll think of that every time.Lol.
This is an interesting concept. I think I’ve read this particular neurosis before, but it didn’t have nearly as many comments back then. Now it had a large amount, and after reading them I think I have to agree: Every time I smell something out of the ordinary (which is a lot more often than I would like) this little possibility will always be in the back of my mind. Granted I don’t believe it completely, but it’s a cool enough idea to think of when it happens.
We all are in “ComaLand”…..now that you know, spread the word. We must all escape into reality. [sic]
i’ve always wondered if it could be possible that my whole life is a dream and i’ve been in a coma for years. it’s very weird to think about.
That’s something I get quite a lot, along with tastes. I have bipolar disorder, and it’s a form of hallucination.
wouldn’t it be cool if we are all just the conciousnesses of other, further advanced beings that are playing a virtual reality game that when you start playing it blocks out all your real memories so you can live a second life as a person from the past or a different species and when people go to sleep they are really just logging off and when they die it is just their game session ending then later they can start a new one?
Now I’m afraid this is true, and my entire life is just someone else in a 21 year coma.
I am working on getting my BA in Philosophy and we talk about this stuff ALL the time. Google “brain in a vat.” Now THAT’S a mindfuck.
If you think you’re deluded, but you’re not, are you still insane?
I always feel that my life has been a lie and that i’ll wake up one day as a little kid again and have to experience life all over again
This mental landscape has bacon stores and so much more. Stay here.
I liked it.
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