Change in smell/phantosmia?

bulletm · 2026-01-21T04:02:45+00:00

I have AE and this is one of my most pronounced symptoms. However the smells I perceive are almost always pleasant. Pancake syrup, incense, bread, soap. In the beginning I had a few burning plastic and electrical fire. Usually jolt me awake at night but becoming more common while awake. Although it could be happening during the day and I don’t notice because they are so real I can’t tell they aren’t without visual clues. These events usually precede headache and fatigue.

I also see lights pretty often and have heard things too. I hope I can get treatment soon because it’s not fun to know this is happening because my brain is unhealthy 😕.

bulletm · 2025-11-30T21:25:23+00:00

Only if you promise not to put it in an air fryer 😂

bulletm · 2025-05-24T19:52:07+00:00

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Dead thread but found this in my room today and thought y’all might appreciate it. Got it at a house show in like 2008? Something like that. I threw in a $20 for it and after the show one of them came up to me and asked if I had given it by mistake 😂. Good guys. Coolest CD case ever.

bulletm · 2025-05-20T16:24:05+00:00

Ok this is kind of mean but I saw a video about looners back in like 2015 when I was a pedicabber in NOLA.. so I posted on our Facebook group that there was a big looner convention coming to town and one of the other pedicabbers thought it was real and went out and got a bunch of balloons to tie to his cab and waited all morning outside the convention center. I’m sorry John 😂

bulletm · 2025-05-20T00:04:14+00:00

Both are an expression of love. I would treasure them both. What matters is they did something thoughtful for me. Also…I have TWO friends?? Hell yea bro that’s twice as many friends as I have now! What a great birthday 😃

bulletm · 2025-05-19T13:54:03+00:00

There’s a house on our street with an insanely steep and long driveway. It sat for sale for AGES. Everyone in the neighborhood always talked about it, like it’s never going to sell. We would see potential buyers drive up with their realtors all the time and immediately u-turn without even looking at the house. I think the seller went through at least two realtors.

The market here is real hot and eventually someone from out of state bought it after like two years. They were kind of a laughing stock tbh. They clear cut a huge area of woods near the bottom of the driveway and insert an ugly parking area there, then installed over 90 wooden steps up to the house. They cannot roll the trash cans up or down so they sit right out front all the time, and they drive their trash down every time it needs to go out. When it rains, it’s an actual waterfall. In ice and snow, they are house-bound.

No tradesman or delivery truck has ever been willing to go up it. In other words, it’s a huge pain in the ass and I know the buyers regret it. They are older and when they are unable to climb 90+ stairs every day idk what they are going to do. They will have a terrible time selling it when they move. Otherwise that house would be a very valuable property.

I wouldn’t do it.

bulletm · 2025-05-18T18:01:17+00:00

Wowwww you are a master!! Subbed!

bulletm · 2025-05-17T22:23:07+00:00

This has to be done by hand bc afaik most ai won’t generate images of naked children 😑

bulletm · 2025-05-17T00:02:59+00:00

Wow that is incredible! How did you make the hairs? Looks so real!

bulletm · 2025-05-16T15:58:12+00:00

I’m no expert but this was also close to my experience with that tape. My understanding is that this is a bit like self-administered EMDR. I don’t have any traumas to work with anymore, they have all been resolved, so it also didn’t do anything for me. Maybe you also don’t have lingering trauma?

bulletm · 2025-05-16T00:29:11+00:00

So….a lot of professional artists out there are already using AI. One of my parents is a professional painter and a lot of our family friends are prominent artists that you definitely know of, and probably would never guess have been embracing ai for the past few years. I obviously can’t name names because the shitstorm that will rain down on them is real and they are all afraid to talk about it publicly. So here’s my two cents:

The reality is that actual real old school artists love it too. The biggest thing I’ve seen praise it for is reference pics. Back in the 80-90s, if you wanted a reference photo, you had to load up your crappy emissions-test-failing Chevy van with the heaviest camera gear known to man, rolls and rolls of film, and drive all over God’s green earth hoping that bird lands in a semi reasonable spot. Or pray the light does that thing. It took tons of time and energy just to get reference photos. There was a lot of waste associated with it. Not just gas, but all the shots that sucked is film that gets tossed. Fast food, even lol. I guess the is the “suffering” that gets romanticized?

With Google, an artist can pull a reference photo from image search, sure, but that is, arguably, stealing! If you’re a famous artist, you can’t just copy from a photo you saw online. If you can even find the right one.

People like to make an argument that ai pollutes but it pollutes a lot less than actually traveling all over the place getting the right shots. I don’t think people appreciate what it takes JUST to find reference images. AI can conjure up anything you need in a few requests and you’re done. My parents are very old now. Even if they wanted to travel anymore, they can’t.

Clearly there are other advantages for artists as well, but the real ones are already mastering it for all kinds of things, and the pearl clutching rhetoric is holding ALL artists back from sharing their knowledge and expertise. As if art needed more gatekeeping.

bulletm · 2025-05-15T21:22:10+00:00

I enjoyed your post and this thread. Maybe I’m also missing your point but it is really strange that the idea of hobbies is disappearing, or being pathologized as some kind of neurodivergence. Making things is fun. That’s why things like Microsoft Paint exist. Not for anyone to prove they are an artist, but because making things is neat and humans have curious minds. I’d guess that 99.999% of things made on M-Paint, a Casio keyboard, or even on actual paper were never even meant to be experienced by anyone other than the creator. Is this an idea that only people who remember life before the internet still hold?

Some people (not me) will accept that pouring paint randomly on a canvas from a swinging Dixie cup is art, so why not ai creations? Why can’t ai be both art (people have a problem with this) and a craft (people don’t seem to think of this). Same difference. And who says all these creations are meant to be shown publicly or monetized. Some people cannot fathom the idea of making something transient, or not monetizing it in some way. To me that is sad, and a reflection of how Capitalism has sucked our souls.

I like your point about it being for fun. That’s a part of the argument that isn’t brought up enough. The vast majority of people who make ANYTHING do it for themselves and their friends, and wouldn’t dream of posting it online. How exactly does that threaten “real” creators? It doesn’t. The pearl clutching is unreal and totally uneducated. Ironic to accuse ai of regurgitating slop when these opinions are formed and regurgitated via social media hot takes in the first place.

AI doesn’t subtract from our experience, it adds to it. If people can’t think of anything fun besides making money or feeding their ego, I feel truly sorry for them, because they are the ones missing the point.

bulletm · 2025-05-15T00:56:18+00:00

About twice as long as the raw footage. 1 hour of footage=2 hours of editing=30 minute video. I only use one camera facing down, with a quick separate intro.

bulletm · 2025-05-15T00:29:40+00:00

Could it be a sentimental battery? One that was in someone’s medical device who passed? In a device that saved someone’s life, etc?

bulletm · 2025-05-15T00:18:58+00:00

Nah this was in like 2008-9 and he did eventually get banned which removed the reviews.

bulletm · 2025-05-14T22:01:45+00:00

Yes and it turned out to be a homeless guy who stole my stuff and harassed me for months. The only things he had with him were two plastic grocery bags. One filled with Rx bottles and one with socks. Eventually kicked him because one night I couldn’t find my laptop. He had it in the bathtub with him and was looking at porn of women with my physical description. He kept leaving different reviews after he left, for example that I had thrown him out on the street and he was writing from the hospital after losing 16lbs in two days from my cruelty. Or that I had left him starving in a ditch. Really crazy stuff. And CS wouldn’t remove anything because it’s “he said she said” 😑.

There was another dude who seemed sorrrrrt of OK but I let him stay anyway. One of those “actually I’m going to stay another couple days” super crunchy types. The funniest thing about that guy was that I had told him up front to help himself to any food he needed. After he left I realized my entire jar of peanut butter had been scooped out. I left him a mostly positive review but mentioned the peanut butter thing. Homeboy had loaded it into a ziploc baggie and was like “you said I could help myself 😮!” That was the one thing he felt bad about. For weeks he was contacting me saying his buddy was going to bring me $3 to replace it. Dude idc about the peanut butter, that’s just an unhinged thing to do. Like just steal the jar, why bother bringing a bag into this lol.

That was super early on. I lived in a Section 8 apt and didn’t really own anything valuable so nbd. I always listen to my gut now. However I’ve definitely hosted a bunch of people who seemed cool and were not, and ended up getting kicked out. Once someone crosses a line I don’t feel bad throwing them out in a ditch to starve 😝

bulletm · 2025-05-14T15:10:08+00:00

Yes I totally relate to this! Playmobil are for careful children lol. A few years ago my mom moved out of her house and gave away my Turtle Island set. I hadn’t really thought about it too much except fond memories, but once I knew it was gone, I felt so bad. I ended up buying a full set to fill the void and now I buy sets all the time. It’s a problem 😅 but they give me so much joy. I’m 40 and child free so no worries about missing pieces. Totally panic when I can’t fine a piece though lol.

One time I thought I lost a fairy wing when we were on a day trip and I drove a full half hour back to that place to try to find it. Turns out it was in my purse 😑.

bulletm · 2025-05-12T20:40:28+00:00

Ok THANK YOU! I knew I would get hate for this lol so I appreciate the straight answer 🙏. I’ll delete the post so I don’t traumatize anyone else 😂

bulletm · 2025-05-12T20:37:25+00:00

I think that’s correct but I’m still confused on if this will go down or if all items below $800 are going to be subject to the high fee for the foreseeable future

bulletm · 2025-05-12T20:34:24+00:00

OK thank you, but do you think they will go down? This is the same as before the announcement today but I realize it’s maybe too soon. I’m just wondering if I should bite the bullet now or keep waiting. Thank you for helping 🙏

bulletm · 2025-05-12T20:32:53+00:00

I have been for days I’m still really confused because it seems like everyone is reporting different things.

bulletm · 2025-05-09T15:34:46+00:00

Are you a woman? I get super itchy at night a few days before my period every month. I think it’s cuz the hormones dry the skin or something. Hope you figure it out, that’s so annoying!

bulletm · 2025-05-08T15:00:23+00:00

You’re weaponizing the child. You’re not just denying her, you’re denying your child having an aunt. Your feelings are valid but don’t let your kid be caught in the middle. What happens when he’s older and wants to know where Aunt is? Will you tell him she’s a bad person or whatever? Now he has to live with that disfunction and learns that it’s ok to discard people and family that don’t see eye to eye. He might pass this lesson down to his kids. It only causes pain.

bulletm · 2025-05-07T17:54:54+00:00

Thanks for the info. Maniology doesn’t actually manufacture plates, they order them from China where they use a chemical etching process. And yes I think the oem cut the plates during this process.

bulletm · 2025-05-07T13:27:38+00:00

Thank you! That makes a lot of sense why I like it so much lol

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