Fantosmiya - a olfactory hallucinations

Imagine that all the food you eat, the smell of sulfur, ammonia and decomposition. Or the smell of lavender that you once felt during a romantic trip to Paris, will haunt you forever. This is fantosmiya - olfactory hallucinations, no less intrusive and unpleasant than visual or auditory.

Fantosmii reasons could be several: traumatic brain injury, mental illness, swelling, damage to the nasal mucosa. Often people living with olfactory hallucinations a lifetime, unaware that it is a disturbing symptom that with him all right. Unlike ordinary odors from fantosmii impossible to shake, smell something else. One woman complained that her several years pursues the smell of damp earth after a gardener in the spring dug the ground around her home. Another man got into a car accident, after which he could not get rid of the smell of cigarette smoke.

Fantosmiya may be permanent, and may affect attacks from several hours to several days.

via factroom.ru