This is so weird!

[Ravenlost]

Every evening about this time I smell Chinese food cooking. It's been happening for almost a week now and usually lasts about 20-30 minutes. There is no Chinese food within an eight mile radius of me, but I still smell it cooking!

[RoseGarden]

Any neighbors near enough you'd smell their cooking? Or can it smell like that if someone is cooking drugs in the woods?

[Grandmotherbear]

Weird smells can sometimes be a signal of a stroke beginning- can you take your BP next ime that happens?

[Ravenlost]

Ya know, I've forgotten to take my BP meds the last few days. Thanks for reminding me, I'm going to take one now.

[dixiegal62]

Originally Posted by Ravenlost

Every evening about this time I smell Chinese food cooking. It's been happening for almost a week now and usually lasts about 20-30 minutes. There is no Chinese food within an eight mile radius of me, but I still smell it cooking!

That is weird, whats funny is yesterday I was in the car with my dil and I asked her if she smelled chinese food. I kid you not! Maybe its coming from all those made in china items,lol

[Ravenlost]

Sometimes I smell coffee brewing on the stairs and smoke from a wood fire in the bedroom. Hubby thinks I'm nuts.

[dixiegal62]

sometimes people smell things before seizures Not sayings its whats happening to you but some seizures you dont even know your having, sometimes you just smell something out of place, sometimes you have deja vu.

[chickenmommy]

Sometimes you smell things the spirits around you want you to smell.

[Becca65]

Maybe there are spirits in your house cooking?

[donsgal]

Originally Posted by Ravenlost

Every evening about this time I smell Chinese food cooking. It's been happening for almost a week now and usually lasts about 20-30 minutes. There is no Chinese food within an eight mile radius of me, but I still smell it cooking!

That IS strange. If it continues I would tell my doctor about it. Phantom smells can be an indication of lots of things including a sinus infection and even (God forbid), a brain tumor. Famous composer George Gershwin complained for months of a phantom smell of hot tar before he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Hopefully, it is nothing more than a little wishful thinking on your noses part.

I haven't had Chinese food in ages and I am jonesing for it bad! Love that rice! yum. (yeah, I can cook rice myself, but it just isn't the same!)

donsgal

[Becca65]

I've heard if you can smell something burning it could be a brain tumor.. I asked the doctor i work for and he said he never heard of that before..

[elliemaeg]

My 1st DH used to get up of the morning and asked me why had I burnt the toast. He would think he smelled something burning at times. A few months later he was diagnosed with multiple brain tumors. So, I know for a fact it is a symptom of brain tumors and I feel sure it could be of something else.

[LvDemWings]

While it could be all kinds of bad things maybe you just have a hankering for Chinese. There have been many times that I dream of eating a certain food and I can smell it and darn near taste it until I actually eat some and then the craving is gone.

[mistletoad]

Last year I started to get worried because I smelled curry while driving in places where there were no Indian restaurants and even if our neighbours do eat curry they just couldn't be cooking it that often. Eventually I asked DH and he told me that's what a leaking heater core smells like.

[EasyDay]

I, too, would see a doc just to be sure. I know that diabetics often smell fruity smells, and people with liver disorders may smell musty smells.

And, yes, smells are often associated with hauntings. Usually food that the spirit somehow relates to.

Did you have a chinaman pass away in your house, perchance?

[Ravenlost]

Hmmm...I have also smelled burnt toast when there's no toast being made in the house. Sometimes I smell cigarettes and we don't smoke. I've also smelled that burning tar smell, but it's been a while.

And I had Chinese food just last week, so no hankerings. Oh, and we built this house four years ago and no one has passed away in it, plus there was no house ever here before.

I wonder if it could have something to do with the MS and the scarring of nerves in the brain? Maybe the nerve signals that trigger smell are all messed up now.

I see a new rheumatologist Jan. 8th and I'll be sure to ask her about it.

[dixiegal62]

ms causes so many weird symptoms so it could be, if a new lesion has firmed it could effect your smell, whats strange is its about the same time every night. Its been really windy here in Alabama if it is there I dont see why the smell of it cooking couldn't travel about 8 miles to you. it may be that your smelling senses have become heightened

[bumpus]

Originally Posted by Ravenlost

Every evening about this time I smell Chinese food cooking. It's been happening for almost a week now and usually lasts about 20-30 minutes. There is no Chinese food within an eight mile radius of me, but I still smell it cooking!

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[pheasantplucker]

Maybe someone was "wokking" around your house!

[Becca65]

Originally Posted by EasyDay

I, too, would see a doc just to be sure. I know that diabetics often smell fruity smells, and people with liver disorders may smell musty smells.

And, yes, smells are often associated with hauntings. Usually food that the spirit somehow relates to.

Did you have a chinaman pass away in your house, perchance?

Actually if a diabetics blood sugars are out of whack they themselves have a fruity smell to them. I've smelt it on a coworkers breath before and her sugars are way out of whack.. we're talking 300's.. But she still keeps on eating the sweets..