Over the last year I have periodically noticed a strong chemical smell like burning plastic which takes my breath away, stings my throat and leaves me with a headache. Others have noticed it too although not as much as me. I assumed someone must be burning rubbish or something nearby and it was seeping in from outside. However, more recently I’ve noticed a clear pattern as to when the smell appears. Whenever I am drifting off to sleep, the precise moment I fall asleep, the smell instantly fills my nostrils and wakes me up before dissipating a few seconds later. I’ve tried this day and night, in different rooms and I get the same results. This is obviously infuriating and stops me from sleeping properly (although thankfully once I do manage to fall into a sustained deep sleep it doesn’t persist). I haven’t told anyone about it since I don’t know how to explain it without sounding crazy. It surely has to be controlled by something that can detect my brain state because simply lying down with my eyes closed doesn’t trigger it, only actual sleep triggers it. Given that there must be some serious tech behind this, it must have been tried on others who could confirm having a similar experience to this.
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All sorts of people smell weird shit since COVID. Just go to a doctor and get checked out.
First of all, you have likely actual paranoia or schizophrenia and need to get treatment.
Apart from that, there could be various reasons for the smell and its timing. For example, it could be always there, but you’re used to it unless in the almost sleep state. It could also be associated with an action, like a faulty electric installation that always heats and grills plastic when you switch the light off. It could be your phones battery when you charge it in the evening. It could be funghi, chemicals or carbon monoxide causing a hallucination of a smell; or worst case scenario: You have a physical health problem that causes phantosmia, such as an infection, brain tumor, neuroblastoma, stroke, dental issues or nasal polyps.
It is extremely unlikely it is caused by a sophisticated remote or stealth sleep detecting device. Such a device is science fiction. Imagine the cost and effort to build and deploy something like this; and for what? To drive you mad? I doubt someone hates you that much to go through all that trouble.
Go see a doctor. Because which is more logical?
- Somebody watches you carefully 24/7 and lights trashbags on fire under your nose (or fumigates you somehow) as soon as you fall asleep anywhere in the house
-or-
- There’s something wrong with your sense of smell.
Occarm’s razor says it’s the latter.
It wouldn’t be logical to attribute the accompanying stinging throat and shortness of breath to a problem with my sense of smell. It obviously isn’t that. I honestly suspect I might be targeted by nano-bots.
Could be a neurological issue where your brain does a whole thing where you have all these sensations once the sleep hormones kick in. You wouldn’t know if it was a hallucination since you are the one experiencing it. I don’t think a trip to the doctor would be a bad idea and if they think you are crazy you should switch doctors.
Others have noticed it. A neighbour and his wife brought up the topic unprompted describing the same burnt plastic smell, none of us could work out where it comes from. The part I haven’t mentioned to others, is the admittedly more hard to believe part where it seems most commonly triggered (at least in my house) the moment I drift off to sleep. I know you lot mean well by suggesting talking about it with a doctor but it’s so clearly an external phenomena, there’s no doubt about that.
it’s so clearly an external phenomena, there’s no doubt about that.
Don’t take this the wrong way, but being dead sure of your perception of a reality that flies in the face of logic and common sense is a very positive sign of schizophrenia. So is olfactory dysfunction - which is what you’re experiencing.
I have been around many people who suffer from schizophrenia and refuse to get treated because the paranoia takes over their lives. Don’t let this happen to you: go see a doctor. If I’m wrong, they’ll laugh it off and send you home, and you can resume your search for mind control devices. If I’m right, they’ll offer you help and you’ll be rid of your annoying problem, and the sensation that someobody nefarious is ruining your life, which is extremely tiring.
Do yourself a favor and go see a doctor. Please.
I’m missing limbs and I can still feel them.
People who have a heart attack feel pain down their left arm.A lot of stuff in the human body doesn’t seem very logical. Just go see a doctor. Trust me on that one.
