Smell/Taste Flash

Sometimes I'll randomly taste or smell things. It's not an association thing--it's not like I'll be in the same room as a scented candle and think I smell daffodils--just random flashes. And it's not correlated to anything--it's not like every time my foot itches I taste beef stew. But it's random like that.

Like just now, I could distinctly taste a gin tonic. Or quinine. Whatever. But I can't recreate that sensation. I just remember it, like a quickly fading dream.

Part of me wants it to be synesthesia, but it's way too irregular, and it's not linked to anything specific. I guess I could be having tiny seizures like that epileptic woman who smelled burnt toast before she had one. Tiny, imperceptible seizures. Yeah, totally.

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