General / Off-Topic Why does thinking about photocopiers, make me smell coffee?

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Seriously, I'm not joking. I can smell it just writing this post.

Damn photocopiers.
 

starman

starman
Alonya Ruslana said:
Seriously, I'm not joking. I can smell it just writing this post.

Damn photocopiers.
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Hallucinations
Hallucinations are where someone sees, hears, smells, tastes or feels things that don't exist outside their mind.
sight – seeing colours, shapes or people
sounds – hearing voices or other sounds
touch – feeling touched when there is nobody there
smell – an odour that other people can't smell
taste – a taste when there is nothing in the mouth

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/psychosis/symptoms/
 

Pyrotiger

Pyrotiger
You think photocopy

You then think photocoffee

You then see coffee

It's a linguistic link that metamorpisises into a visual.
 

Mysturji

Mysturji
Spacebaboy said:
You think photocopy

You then think photocoffee

You then see coffee

It's a linguistic link that metamorpisises into a visual.
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We have photocoffee'ers
Now we need:*
Photowhiskiers
Photowiniers
Photobeeriers
Photocheesiers
Photobaconiers
Photoweediers

*Not necessarily in this order.
 

Mysturji

Mysturji
There's a part of the M4, somewhere around Wiltshire or maybe beyond, where I always smell salami.
Or maybe it's bologna.
But only in the morning, going west.
You can't explain that.
 

Deleted member 110222

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starman said:
Hallucinations
Hallucinations are where someone sees, hears, smells, tastes or feels things that don't exist outside their mind.
sight – seeing colours, shapes or people
sounds – hearing voices or other sounds
touch – feeling touched when there is nobody there
smell – an odour that other people can't smell
taste – a taste when there is nothing in the mouth

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/psychosis/symptoms/
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Interesting you link to an NHS page on psychosis.

I'm diagnosed for a few years now.
 

Pyrotiger

Pyrotiger
Seriously, it's just a neurological connection that anyone can have IMO, and that's without psychosis.

Even if it's not a linguistic link, I know several places where coffee machines are near photocopiers. Maybe you came across this, and forgotten it because the experience was so uneventful. Or maybe someone was drinking coffee while photocopying - considering it can be a very boring job. And perhaps your sense of smell is heightened.

I guess what's different is, comparing hallucinations to 'normal' connections, is how vivid the experience is to the individual, and whether they act on it or not.
 
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