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Tuesday Sleeping Smell
This title
doesn’t mean how your body smells (good or bad). This is about your sense of smell. Not how you smell. Whew.
During REM
(Rapid Eye Movement) sleep the body’s olfactory sensory organs shut down.
Therefore any scents that would normally cause a reaction – like smoke -won’t do so during sleep. Now you know why
smoke alarms are so important!
Interestingly,
you can dream that you smell
something, but it doesn’t involve your nose, it involves your brain. Still think
the smell of cinnamon rolls in the oven woke you up? Nope, you were already at
least semi-awake, and then the nose woke up and alerted you to a tasty breakfast treat.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Anatomical Secret #26y:
“You can’t smell while sleeping.”
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Quote of the Day:
“Smell is a
potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years
you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my
childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and
fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief.
Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet
memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.”
― Helen Keller
― Helen Keller
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