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Rachel Herz, a professor of psychiatry at Brown University and author of The Scent of Desire in her research and experiments indicate people do not respond to odours while they are in the dreaming phase of sleep (REM) or deep sleep.

"You cannot smell while you are asleep," she says. "You don't smell the coffee and wake up; rather you wake up and then smell the coffee."

But, she says, if we very briefly wake up and perceive the scent of coffee, it will wake us further if we are interested in it.

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2 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

I don't think that this is correct. I know for a fact that my wife will wake up when exposed to excessive flatulence.

Is that why you are sleeping in another room??? Or the front pouch.....

 

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I don’t agree with the professor’s assessment. 
I have smelled coffee when asleep. Coffee, smoke, perfumes, food, my dog’s bad breath. :lol:

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I disagree as well.  When our furnace caught fire in St Louis, the smoke woke me long before the smoke detectors went off. 

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On 8/30/2024 at 1:11 PM, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

I don't think that this is correct. I know for a fact that my wife will wake up when exposed to excessive flatulence.

Maybe it isn't the smell but the roar of thunder that wakes her up....or getting cold when you blow the covers off.

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this might be TMI , im just sayin , 

 

ive noticed that i wake when coffee is waved before my face in the early AM , not awake before that , im disputing the original premise 

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