I sometimes find that things taste like something smells. Has this ever happened to anyone? I’m not sure if something can actually taste like a smell. Is it possible? I’m not sure if the senses can be mixed. I guess things can look like they smell, right? I mean, a garbage truck looks like a foul smell, however, a lousy taste doesn’t have a particular look and you definitely can’t touch a taste, or touch a smell. On the other hand, you can see the way something is going to feel so in that respect senses interact. But, still, I cannot quite put my finger on the point I’m trying to make, so to speak.
Either way, I have eaten things that taste like a smell. The only example I can think of at the moment is B.O.
Yes, I have eaten body odor. I can’t recall what I was eating, but I know I have eaten something that tastes like the smell of B.O. Don’t be confused, it didn’t smell like B.O., it literally tasted like what B.O. would taste like if the smell was, indeed, a taste.
Maybe I just have a heightened sense of taste, which would be decent, and would account for my love of grizzle. I hope to learn more about this phenomenon in the future. If this has happened to anyone or if anyone knows more about the interaction of senses, Decent Community would love to hear about it.
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Have you ever wondered why food loses its flavor when you have a cold? It’s not your taste buds’ fault. Blame your stuffed-up nose. Seventy to seventy-five percent of what we perceive as taste actually comes from our sense of smell. Taste buds allow us to perceive only bitter, salty, sweet, and sour flavors. It’s the odor molecules from food that give us most of our taste sensation.
When you put food in your mouth, odor molecules from that food travel through the passage between your nose and mouth to olfactory receptor cells at the top of your nasal cavity, just beneath the brain and behind the bridge of the nose. If mucus in your nasal passages becomes too thick, air and odor molecules can’t reach your olfactory receptor cells. Thus, your brain receives no signal identifying the odor, and everything you eat tastes much the same. You can feel the texture and temperature of the food, but no messengers can tell your brain, “This cool, milky substance is chocolate ice cream.” The odor molecules remain trapped in your mouth. The pathway has been blocked off to those powerful perceivers of smell-the olfactory bulbs.
cool!