Does anyone get olfactory hallucinations?

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I do all the time. I keep on smelling my brain rotting away because the nanobots are destroying it and replacing it with a robot brain. The smell is gross. By the way if you don't know, olfactory hallucinations mean that you are smelling things that other people can't smell. Sometimes it can be associated with a general medical condition but I know that some people with schizophrenia gets it, too. So, what kinds of things do you smell that no one else smells? How long does it last? Mine can last from a few minutes to several hours.

I have a different presentation. I 'forget' what some stuff smells like, and then smell something else around EVERYWHERE!. I can smell some things at all, and others. . .whew! too much!

Merle

I've had a few olfactory hallucinations, always pleasant.

I've smelled freshly turned soil where there had been no digging, pizza in my car when I hadn't carried pizza in there in years, things like that.

It lasts half an hour or so. I just sit back and enjoy it.

I'm sorry yours are so stinky, what with the rotting brain smell, FireBird.

yah.

I did, when I tried a new medication for a short time. The olfactory whatever stuff continued for a couple of years after I stopped taking it. The first episode: I opened the package for the dog's new flea collar, and the smell was shockingly strong. At first, I wondered how the company could stay in business. Then the smell followed me and filled the house. I showered, cleaned out my nose... It stayed with me even when I was out of the house for hours. I think that first episode lasted for a couple of weeks. After I ditched that drug it wasn't as dramatic, but it still happened. The first blast of whatever smell-de-jour was the correct smell, just too strong, and it lasted for days. The last episode was several months ago. The dog jumped on the couch and farted near my face. That one lasted for maybe two days. At least my kids found it humorous. It's nice to know that someone is having a good time.
I think it's over now.

once - maybe.
I was watching a programme about WWII and I think they showed the bombing of Dresden.
I remarked to my husband about an awful smell, to me it was a smell of death. My husband couldn't smell anything.

A couple of minutes later the narrator spoke about the awful stench of decaying flesh after the bombing.

I was thinking about chocolate bars all week, and than I could have sworn that I was smelling chocolate, yesterday morning.

I will often smell things if I just think about them. I often also smell things I see in pictures, though they're usually good things, like flowers or cakes.

Well....the cake one isn't always so good....I usually end up with a huge craving on my hands!

When I was on a rather high dose of Seroquel I started having really weird hallucinations including olfactory ones. It started when my dose was around 200mg. I started having weird visual hallucinations like seeing things move out of the corner of my eye (not sure if that was just a little bit of mania left). Then I notice the tunnel vision. Then I started seeing wiggly rainbows out of the corners of my eyes, or stars when I looked up. Colors started shifting. Like my coworkers shoes that were black, would slowly change to dark blue, then dark violet....I told my doctor, who insisted I was psyhotic, and increased the dose of the Seroquel to 300mg.

Then things got fun. When I tried to watch TV, peoples mouths would move a fraction of a second before I heard their voice. It was like really bad dubbing. And it wasn't just one channel....it was every channel. Then it wasn't just the TV, it was in real life. I'd walk down the street, and peoples' heads would be either really big or really small. While driving, the lines on the road would vibrate like a plucked string. Things seemed to move that didn't. The walls of my bedroom would breathe, the specs on the ceiling tiles above my desk at work would wiggle and squirm around like little bugs.

Then came the smell and taste of almonds. I could not get rid of the smell or the taste. Very concerened I told my doctor and she said I should go to the crisis center, and I was still psychotic and not getting better. Meanwhile, I am not delusional, I'm functiong at work, and I have no big plans or great visions of the future. I know something is wrong with my brain. I told her I had an important presentaion at work coming and I really couldn't be hospitalized. So she agreed to adjust the Seroquel to 600mg a day (I was barely over 100lbs, and not a schizophrenic)...

Well then it got even worse. The taste and smell of burnt almonds now became foul, like the almonds were burnt....and the smell was making me sick to my stomach. My visual disturbances got even more strange, more tunnel vision, blackouts where I couldn't see at all. One day I was walking down a hallway at work and the hallway became infinatly long, and started rocking back and forth. My ears started to ring. I got the strong sensation I needed to vomit, and then I woke up on the floor of the hallway...I had passed out.

Convinved I had something much worse than manic psychosis, I made an appointment with a neurologist. After an abnormal EEG, I had an MRI and a PET scan. I had what appeared to be constant seizure activity in the occipital lobe and also part of the temporal lobe of my brain...

I wasn't crazy after all (well not psychotic anyway). It was actually the medication I was taking that was causing it. After I stopped the medication and went on an anticonvulsant the seizures stopped. I was able to come off the anticonvulsant and the seizures haven't come back, so far.

I'm kinda scared to try another medication for the bipolar thing...

so THATS whats it is! i get it somethimes if i think about a certaint movie (but now it doesn't happen that much anymore because after i realised that it whasn't normal it stopped lol) it still can happen but rarely

I can often smell chlorine when no one else can and there is no reason anything would smell of chlorine.
I often get the sensation of blood, not sure if it's smelling blood or tasting blood or both.

I smell other things too when others don't seem to but I haven't asked enough people to see if I'm imagining it or others just don't notice a smell as easily.

They are the ignored sort of hallucination. I wonder if a deafblind person got psychosis, would they be very troubled by these sorts of hallucinations, as others are by visual and auditory hallucinations.