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).
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.
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.
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.
