Recently I had COVID and as I powered through my headaches, I started to realize I was feeling a familiar smell - one that I had associated with being high on psychedelics.
As I thought about it, I realized more and more that it was the exact same smell, one that was deep in my trip memories. It isn’t an unpleasant smell, just unique. And then I started thinking that COVID could be affecting similar parts of the brain as psychedelics and triggering a similar phantosmia (smell hallucinations).
I am wondering if this is something anyone else has noticed or was it just my own brain? Any comments?
When I had gotten covid, I didn’t actually know I had it, I had thought that it was just a nasty sinus infection as I had no other symptoms whatsoever and even continued to train weights during my time sick. At the time I was smoking a lot of weed and noticed a similar effect basically 24/7. I thought it was from smoking itself (in which case it wouldn’t have been JUST weed, I have gotten laced/spice before without my knowledge beforehand) but after I had “recovered” I noticed it taper away until eventually I once again only encountered it during my smoking sessions.
That sounds like it ! Glad I’m not alone in this.
It’s just weird and makes me think in the ways COVID messes with your brain.