Posted by noa on October 19, 2000, at 16:26:47
In reply to Re: DOES THIS MAKE SCENTS??, posted by JohnL on October 19, 2000, at 4:10:51
I hope these random musings are not inappropriate.
I wonder---I am familiar with the idea of heightened sensory sensitivity during panic, but heightened sense of smell is rarely something I have heard about. Still, it kind of makes sense if a panic attack is a survival-mode reaction, that heightened sensory abilities from a surge of adrenaline would be part of the package, so why not sense of smell?
Perhaps your ancestors came from a physical environment where dangers could be detected by smell in addition to sight and sound?
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