Scent and Speculation.

I had to set my alarm early this morning because of the hospital appointment, and for an hour or two before it went off I kept waking up and dozing again. Nothing odd there; probably just a stress reaction to a prospect I find uncomfortable. What was odd was that every time I woke up I smelt jasmine so strongly that its pungency irritated my sinuses.

I have no jasmine in my house, so where was the smell coming from? I’ve heard it said that smelling something that isn’t there can be indicative of a serious brain abnormality, but others might tell me that it was some sort of spiritual or supernatural experience. Well, I’m neither a brain specialist nor a believer in anything so I’ll have to be content with counting it another of those little mysteries which have been dropping into my life for as far back as I can remember.