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Do you have a poor sense of smell?

Postby WeAreOne420 » Thu Aug 02, 2018 12:21 am

I used to be able to smell everything and now I smell strong odors but it just seems like my senses are really poor in general.
Is this due to the disassociation?



Also I have certain Alters That's right in the front of my face and sometimes I could literally feel the pressure of them on my sinuses
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Re: Do you have a poor sense of smell?

Postby Amythyst » Thu Aug 02, 2018 12:34 am

Our previous host had a really poor sense of smell. I don't know about myself. One or some of our littles have a great sense of smell, and whenever whoever it is comes close, suddenly we can detect way more different scents and stuff than usual.

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Re: Do you have a poor sense of smell?

Postby KawaiiKitty » Thu Aug 02, 2018 1:36 am

Quite the opposite I have a intense sense of smell, I can tell you the flavour of noodles from a few hundred metres away but some of the others are the opposite, Joy says she can't really smell anything unless the scent is really strong
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Re: Do you have a poor sense of smell?

Postby NyxX » Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:22 am

Our senses in general fluctuate drastically so for us at least its dissociation and about our connection to the body
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Re: Do you have a poor sense of smell?

Postby ItsJustUs » Thu Aug 02, 2018 2:16 pm

We each are different in which sense is the strongest and most noticable.

When kitten is out, we would say her sense of smell is normal. Slightly stronger than other people we know, but not superhuman.

Little Wolf has the strongest sense of smell. She will rub her face on our husband to make sure we smell like him, and she will sniff at him when she's feeling stressed. When away from home we sleep with a t-shirt that he has "scented" for us. It calms the wolf as well as Lilly.

It is our understanding that Val has better hearing and hears better than she sees or smells.

Britney and Lilly are very sensitive to touch, but in different ways. Lilly is very sensitive in the sense that small touches elicit an intense response, especially soft, gentle ones, she loves being touched and touching. She will scratch our husband lightly but constantly as she falls asleep.

Myself, I don't feel that any of my senses are stronger or weaker than normal.

***TW Pain and intimate touching mentioned, not vulgar or descriptive, though.***

Britney enjoys "nice" touch, but she craves pain. Her pleasure/pain responses are mixed up and tied together. She is not satisfied with intimate encounters unless pain is involved on some level.

***End TW***


So, in short, I suppose part of it IS due to the dissociation. If we were all of one mind, not fragmented as we are, then it would all be rolled into one and one person would have better everything, if that makes sense.

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Re: Do you have a poor sense of smell?

Postby MakersDozn » Fri Aug 03, 2018 2:21 am

**Trigger Warning - Talk of Accident***

We broke our nose in a car accident when we were 22. That was 34 years ago. We had our nose surgically repaired, but our ability to control post-nasal drip is impaired in cold weather.

As for the original question, our standard comment to people in 3D is "I broke my nose many years ago, and ever since then I don't smell so good." :)

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