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Rather, the pleasant odor appeared to affect the subjects' emotional ratings of their dreams.
Strong Emotional Impact
The sense of smell is known to be closely associated with the brain's limbic system, which governs emotion and behavior.
"If odor has a strong effect on your emotions when you're awake, it makes sense for it to have a strong effect on your emotions when you're asleep," said Stuck, who presented the research Sunday in Chicago at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery. The findings have not been published.
women have been shown to have the best sense of smell, they said.
Tubes were taped to the subjects' nostrils, linking them to olfactometers. The devices pumped constant streams of air into their noses so a gust of odor would not wake them.
The subjects' brain activity was also being monitored. When they reached the rapid-eye-movement (REM) stage of sleep, when most dreams occur, a shot of scent was administered via the olfactometer for ten