Olfactory Precognisance

*or Smells Familiar*

A friend of mine, we’ll call her Emma (largely as that’s her name), is a Mental Health Service User – some of the euphemisms employed within the Mental Health sector are truly awful!

Emma lives with Schizoaffection and endures debilitating Migraines but she also has a remarkable precognitive sense:
She smells things before they happen.

Last week she related the following story to me:
Emma was shopping in Bury town centre when she was overcome by a powerful smell of tar; hot burning tar. She asked her friend, with whom she was with at the time, if they could also smell it. They could not. There were no road-works or anything around the area that could be producing the smell, which remained in Emma’s consciousness for some 15 minutes.

The following evening Emma was, for once, being treated to a night out by her normally unromantic boyfriend *smiles at Emma*. As they were turning off the motorway down the slip-road towards the cinema there was ahead of them in the road a long queue of traffic and causing the hold-up was..................an overturned oil tanker which had spilled tar all over the road. It took 15 minutes for Emma’s car to pass the vehicle during which everyone could smell the overpowering hot burning tar.

I’ve known Emma for about 4 years and she has these “smell precognitions” about 3 or 4 times a year. They are usually followed by a bad Migraine and Epileptic Auras and sure enough over this last weekend Emma suffered a Migrainal attack which lasted 3 days.

In a previous post of mine entitled "A Stunning New Look At Deja Vu" I identified scientific research being conducted into Déjà vu in a blind subject, which alongside Emma’s Olfactory Precognisance is powerful evidence when opposing the Robert Efron Temporal Perception argument of Déjà vu explanation that argues of a neuronal delay in the visual cortex of the brain whereby the empirical input through our eyes takes time to be relayed to our consciousness, occasionally over-buffering and creating the effect of Déjà vu or Deja vecu.

But here, with my post on the work done at Leeds University into Blind Déjà vu and also with Emma’s Smell Precognition we have strong evidence against the R.Efron position.

Precognition and Déjà vu are NOT dependent on solely visual input.

As Tony suggests in his book, are these experiences of Déjà vu and precognition actually our Daemon warning us of troublesome paths ahead.

Emma's Daemon gave her the signal that the smell of hot burning tar was a warning of an event that was about to occur and in typically northern girl tradition she said "Ta"

*groans*

A Dark Philosopher
Karl L Le Marcs