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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have no idea what exactly it was, but it was a false smell I experienced in a dream one night. I can only describe it as something between vomit, sewage and death.

The experience was so disgusting I couldn't even bring myself to eat after I woke up for most of the day, kinda like a false aftertaste if that makes any sense.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe you farted in your sleep

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

LOL, a fart would have been a blessing compared to the smell in my dream.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had a serious case of chickenpox right before I turned 21. All over crust, mouth, eyelids, ears, groin.....I smelled like I was rotting and eventually was hospitalized for two weeks. The nurses took turns or drew straws or something. I pretty much went out of my mind for awhile.

On a positive note, afterwards, I didn't have any kind of acne for like 5 years.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you pretty much shed a layer of skin. Like a snake.

Gnarly.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, it was fuckin gross. An all over scab. Like forbidden fried chicken.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hahaha thanks for the visual

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ammonia. It doesn't technically smell bad, but it stings and does horrible stuff to you. Had the misfortune to use a lot in Chemistry and ended up puking from poisoning.

That and diarrhea and diarrhea farts.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Coffee ground emesis, and stool from a patient dying from a GI bleed. Absolute worst smell I have encountered in my life. It's also a smell that sticks to you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, you just gave me flashbacks. The closest I can come to describing it is rotting lilies.

I think rotten eggs are worse though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A mixture of fart and sulfur. It was so bad I could puke!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Many years ago, I went to a plant manufacturing cooking oil. We were installing new fatty acid deodorizers. Damn, they needed them.

Pulp and paper plants are pretty nasty; and food processing plants with wet/rotting grains are vile. I used to get highly amused by auditors puking. Raw sewage generally smells better - lol.

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