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Maybe I am being haunted.
I have had powerful aromas bring back memories of past times. I think that is common.
I don't think clairamoma is precognitive, unless it inspires one to cook or eat something they have smelled when it was not actually present.
Olfactory hallucinations are common in epilepsy. And they can signal brain dysfunction. I will be getting a thorough physical soon, because I hope to have cataract surgery sometime in the spring. I will mention this, to eliminate any possibility of a physical problem.
Usually these things are ONE powerful or noticeable aroma. I have been experiencing combinations.
I will try to explain what I mean by "haunted." There is nothing scary or unpleasant about this. I live in an old farmhouse. My nearest neighbors are far enough away that I can't see them that clearly when they are in their yards. I can't make out the models of their cars. I can't smell their grass being cut, or their flowers. They are all half a mile away or a mile away. The nearest restaurant is in town, and it is about three and a half or four miles away. Also, it is winter now. It is 7 degrees out today. Everything is closed up tightly.
Sometimes, when I am going to sleep, or just waking up in the early morning, I smell breakfast cooking. I can smell scrambled eggs (I know they are scrambled) and toast. Sometimes I smell coffee. A couple of times, I have smelled pancakes cooking. I smelled the syrup, and the little sausages being served with the pancakes. I could smell the hot griddle where the pancakes were being cooked. One morning about 5:00 a.m., I smelled toast so strongly that I went to the kitchen to see if my husband was there having a snack. He wasn't. (He's a printer who gets home about 7:30 a.m.).
A few times, I have smelled dinner cooking. Once it was pot roast (No side dishes, LOL).
This does happen when I am trying to sleep. But it always wakes me fully. It makes me sit up so I can identify the odors. They do not go away when I am fully awake. If I get up and walk around, the odors are still there. They persist until I go back to sleep or give up and get up for the day. It is hard to get back to sleep.
This is very real. I will try to rule out a physical cause. I can't help but wonder if some long dead farmer's wife is haunting the place, preparing large farmer's meals on her woodburning cookstove. There was such a stove here at one time. It was here into the 1950's.
The people who sold us this house were wonderful. They loved the property. If one of them is here, it is out of loving memory, and it is benign.
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