can somebody please tell me why? i cant not smell myself?

Question

naw really, ppl say i smell but i cant ******* smell it, im so ******* mad rite now

Answer 1

You are so accustomed to your own smell, that you no longer can differentiate your smell from the smell of other things.

Answer 2

well what did you smell like before?

When you inhale air through your nostrils, the air enters the nasal passages and travels into your nasal cavity. The air then passes down the back of your throat into the trachea (or windpipe) on its way to the lungs.

Your nose is also a two-way street. When you exhale the old air from your lungs, the nose is the main way for the air to leave your body. But your nose is more than a passageway for air. The nose also warms, moistens, and filters the air before it goes to the lungs.

The inside of your nose is lined with a moist, thin layer of tissue called a mucous membrane (say: myoo-kus mem-brayne). This membrane warms up the air and moistens it. The mucous membrane makes mucus, that sticky stuff in your nose you might call snot. Mucus captures dust, germs, and other small particles that could irritate your lungs. If you look inside your nose, you will also see hairs that can trap large particles, like dirt or pollen.

If something does get trapped in there, you can probably guess what happens next. You sneeze. Sneezes can send those unwelcome particles speeding out of your nose at 100 mph!

Further back in your nose are even smaller hairs called cilia that you can see only with a microscope. The cilia move back and forth to move the mucus out of the sinuses and back of the nose. Cilia can also be found lining the air passages, where they help move mucus out of the lungs.

Sniff, Sniff, Take a Whiff
The nose allows you to make scents of what's going on in the world around you. Just as your eyes give you information by seeing and your ears help you out by hearing, the nose lets you figure out what's happening by smelling. It does this with help from many parts hidden deep inside your nasal cavity and head.

Up on the roof of the nasal cavity (the space behind your nose) is the olfactory epithelium (say: al-fak-tuh-ree eh-puh-thee-lee-um). Olfactory is a fancy word that has to do with smelling. The olfactory epithelium contains special receptors that are sensitive to odor molecules that travel through the air.

These receptors are very small - there are at least 10 million of them in your nose! There are hundreds of different odor receptors, each with the ability to sense certain odor molecules. Research has shown that an odor can stimulate several different kinds of receptors. The brain interprets the combination of receptors to recognize any one of about 10,000 different smells.

When the smell receptors are stimulated, signals travel along the olfactory nerve to the olfactory bulb. The olfactory bulb is underneath the front of your brain just above the nasal cavity. Signals are sent from the olfactory bulb to other parts of the brain to be interpreted as a smell you may recognize, like apple pie fresh from the oven. Yum!

Identifying smells is your brain's way of telling you about your environment. Have you ever smelled your toast burning? In an instant, your brain interpreted the smell and a problem and you knew to check on your toast.

You learned to associate a certain smell with burning and now your brain remembers that smell so you recognize it. Your sense of smell also can help you keep safe. For example, it can be warn you not to eat something that smells rotten or help you detect smoke before you see a fire.

Answer 3

The way you worded that can be confusing...you wrote that you 'can't NOT smell yourself..meAning are you having a problem where you are always 'wanting' to smell yourself for some reason?
or did you mean you cannot smell yourself? as in your perfume? or body odor? If its your perfume ..thats normal and others will smell it before you notice it on yourself so much.

Answer 4

As with any scent, the nose gets used to them very quickly. Smokers aren't sensitive to smoke, people who work around strong smells get used to them.

Answer 5

You can take your finger and lick it,rub the inside of your cheek, place your finger below your nose and sniff. (its because your used to the smell)..

Answer 6

let go of yo nose fool and ya might be able ta smell somtin! lol. jk. i have no clue

Answer 7

BECAUSE YOU ARE USED TO YOUR OWN SCENT! IF YOU TELL SOMEONE THEY ALWAYS SMELL LIKE PIZZA AND SOAP, THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO SMELL THAT ON THEMSELVES BECAUSE THEIR NOSE IS USED TO THAT SMELL BECAUSE THEY ARE CONSTANTLY SMELLING IT!

Answer 8

ur stink i soo powerfull


o over power the olfactiv receptors

Answer 9

your adaptation of smelling cells... just like when you listen to MP3 at low volume and turn it to mid volume, it is just nice... whereas if you listen to it at max volume and turn it to mid volume,.,., it's really soft...

Answer 10

why u wanna smell u`re self???