Does the smell of coffee being made in another room really have the ability to wake people up?

i don't know sometimes coffee wakes people up but usually i try to wake the person up with the coffee and then just go jump on their bed

No, like those Folger's ad where a wife is fixing Folger's and the coffee scent lines waft into husband's room and he wakes up with a big smile. Does it smell so broadly?

i think i need to employ someone to jump on my bed in the morning or yell at me when i hit snooze too many times cos nothing else seems to work.

I'd say the coffee thing is sort of true, yeah. or at least it wakes me up. but there is usually also a loud bean-grinder involved.

hahaha

no i totally get the folger's question. it definitely doesn't work exactly like that. haha

but coffee does smell broadly, yes, it's a wonderfully rich and satisfying smell.

My younger sister said she knew she was going to leave the Mormon church when she was five and fell in love with the smell of the grocery store coffee aisle.

she should have stayed in the church, she could have had all the aisles in the store.

"i love the smell of arabica in the morning." marlon brando

????? omar??????

It is weird and a little unfair how much better coffee smells than tastes.

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The smell of coffee alerts me that it is morning, but will not necessarily get me out of bed. Perhaps it is early morning. Perhaps I resent the fact that it is morning at all, and do not wish to be reminded of the fact. Your coffee-making is quite presumptuous, actually. Fuck you and your coffee. Close the door, I'm going back to sleep.

Bacon, otoh, is a whole other story.

It is weird and a little unfair how much better coffee smells than tastes.

So true!

I don't ever remember waking because of actually smelling coffee (instead of waking up to the noise of someone making coffee, for example), and I have a pretty strong sense of smell.

WHAT: An alarm clock that wakes you up with the smell and sizzle of cooking bacon.

WHY: No one likes to wake up, especially by an alarm. This clock gently wakes you up with the mouthwatering aroma of bacon, just like waking up on a Sunday morning to the smell of Mom cooking breakfast. Unless you're Jewish.

HOW: A frozen strip of bacon is placed in Wake n' Bacon the night before. Because there is a 10 minute cooking time, the clock is set to go off 10 minutes before the desired waking time. Once the alarm goes off, the clock it sends a signal to a small speaker to generate the alarm sound. We hacked the clock so that the signal is re-routed by a microchip that in responds by sending a signal to a relay that throws the switch to power two halogen lamps that slow-cook the bacon in about 10 minutes.

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It's a weird world.

i don't think i'd get much sleep with a raw piece of unrefrigerated pork so close to my head. I mean, ew.

With square-headed piggies.

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Skynet's budget T-100 "pig infiltrator" model wasn't much of a success.

In re thread Q: yes.

In re bread smell after it has cooled: not v powerful, no.

In re lack of sense of smell being restricted to Abbott: not true.

My own nose, for example, lacks greatly in the smelling dept. with rare momentary lapses into keen smelling ability. These lapses occur roughly three times a year for about 5 seconds each time.

!!!!!!!

Wow!

Is this congenital?

Maybe the point of that bacon alarm clock is to set off the smoke detector, which is guaranteed to wake anyone up.

so no smell at all abbott?

does that mean you only taste the four basic flavour categories??

there is actually a technical term for having a lack of smell although I forget it now. I have known several people in my life with this condition. it is apparently fairly common.

my only question about the bacon alarm: can you eat the piece of bacon after you wake up?

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Hey Abbott, I saw all a comedian at an improv show once talking about how he had no sense of smell, which affected his taste, so he preferred food that was interestingly textured as opposed to food that actually tasted really good because he couldn't tell the difference, like peanut butter and pickles on Triscuits. Is that the case with you?

I want bacon clock.

What's that thing where your senses get jumbled up, one with another? Synasthesia?

It is called 'anosmia.' I truly think my sense of taste is just fine! I am a really good cook, which I think is a good indicator, and my skeptical friends have done blind taste tests on me wherein I successfully identified things. I can taste the difference between different kinds of black coffee, different kinds of chiles, and other things that have a pretty narrow difference.

I think this is bcz I was born this way, whereas some people (like the comedian, I assume) lose it later on in life. So I never learned to associate taste & smell. Your mouth has 14 million+ taste receptors, some of which are in your cheeks! And they wouldn't all be there, I think, if they were interdependent on the olfactory nerve. I just think they've come to be associated for most people because that is how it works for most people. You are all too dependent on your senses of smell to taste things, I think!

People say I like things that do smell offputting to most people, but taste fine to me, like anchovies, fish sauce, and those Asian grocery shrimp-flavored rice crackers. (I guess lots of things from the Asian grocery.)

& yes James that is synasthesia. (sp?)

One time I got this Indian cookbook and it was all about how you could tell how to make the foods based on their smells. I never felt so useless!

My sister found this in a newspaper & mailed it to me:

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Looks like it's spelled synaesthesia, which was actually my first guess but, ah never mind.

Nabokov supposedly had it. Lots of discussion to be found about that and how it related to his creativity.

anosmia

A-nose-me-ah?

I think there are some Parliament records about that topic.

My ex had no sense of smell. He refused to believe that white or transparent things had any scent - so apparently you couldn't smell potato products, rice, milk, vodka, bleach (actually, he might have believed you could smell the last one due to the chemicals, but not the others).

there is also the condition of "dog nose" primarily afflicting females, symptoms consist of being able to smell one atom of something from across the house

In my case, my nose functions with all the utility of one of those plastic knives that come packaged with plastic spoons and forks for use on picnics. The cheapest, flimsiest kind of plastic knife to be exact. I can detect about 20-25% of the odors other people seem able to smell.

It isn't anosmia, so much as a greatly diminished capacity. My nose is also a prodigious snot factory, but that is another kind of story.

Every once in a great while I will suddenly smell something with exceptional clarity and sharpness, as if a veil of heavy fog were lifted from that sense. After which it goes away as rapidly as it arrived. Then I think, God! What a fabulous thing it must be to be able to smell like this all time - and I am eaten up with envy of dogs for a short while.