Why do we pursue odors
A Life / / December 19, 2019
We often have to put up with unpleasant odors, but sometimes they do not leave us for a few hours, even when we've been removed from their source. Psychologists have explained the reasons for this phenomenon.
Often unpleasant smell just "sticks" to our clothes and hairs in the nose. However, it is not just this, and more, and in the interaction of the brain and the olfactory system. We are able to mentally recreate the smells from memory. Psychologist Gilbert Avery (Avery Gilbert) in their studiesAn olfactory demography of a diverse metropolitan population. discovered that this ability to keep us even during sleep.
To get rid of the obsessive odor can sniff something with another odor, such as mint, or even just to chew mint gum.
If this does not help, you may have some sort of disorder of sense of smell. For example, when parosmiya changes odor perception, and it seems like a bad smell everywhere pursues. What used to smell nice now disgusted - or vice versa.
Another disease associated with the sense of smell - fantosmiya. When her people perceive odors that are not really there. Nevertheless, the sense of smell disorders are relatively rare, they suffer in the US
Smell Disorders. Only 1-2% of the population.