Spell Smell Spells! Now, ten times fast!

So I e-mailed this to bunches of people not long ago, but I thought I'd post it anyhoo.

"ok, so i just love learning new, awsome, interesting things, and this week I've come across something great! ok, so yes, i do get a little over excited about knowledge, etc. etc. but honestly, i thought you all would find this fascinating too! OK, my dad is a scientist and he seems to know something about everything, at least a little bit. Well a few days ago we got talking about the sense of smell. Did you know that the sense of smell is the most primary and fundimental of all out senses? our sight, hearing, touch, etc is connected to our brain through all sorts of different nerves, but our sense of smell is DIRECTLY connected. Directly connected to our emotion center actually. This is why the sense of smell is so important to animals. Our bodies give off sents (hormones, oils, sweat, etc.) that communicate to other people's brains. well, ok, so humans have a horrible sense of smell compared to most other animals on the earth, but we still receive these signals often unconciously and SEND them alll the time with out realizing it. Sharks/etc. really can smell fear in you! And before you get engaged, introduce that person to your dog first. Not only are they like personality lie detectors, but they can sense hostility, etc. This doesn't mean you should go out an buy a basset hound, but it's something to think about. Well interestingly enough this phenomonum also explains why women living in the same house hold tend to all start having their menstration cycles at the same time. There are such things as Alpha Females. Even with humans. they give off stronger signals than other females. and in a group of females someone will have stronger signals than others. So when the alpha female starts to menstrate, the other's receive her signals and those signals then sorta signal them to start too. like the geese at the point of the V. the funny thing is ( or not funny) when more than one female with strong signals are in the household, all the weeker females' signals go sorta haywire. caught up in the in and out tide sorta thing. this may also explain why females tend to not get along well under the same roof. especially alpha females. also another interesting thing i discovered is this: We know who we are, we just don't know we know. this idea (connecting to the sense of smell thing) came about when my sister had me put on some of her perfume. it's a kinda perfume that reacts with your body chemicals, so it smells different on every person. She told me that she's put it on friends who smelled musty, flowery, and fruity. same perfume. well in my mind i was kinda thinking "Uck! not fruity! i hope it doesn't smell fruity on me!" And guess what. It didn't. In fact it smelled very much like many of my favorite smells. A little musty. A flowery. Moonflower, airy, and, i dunno... earthy? ok, you get the point. And then on my sister Jo it smells sorta buttery/exoctic/musty. and for those of you who know Jo that's exactly the sort of person she is!!! Those are the sorts of smells she likes! Yeah, our minds and our bodies are definetly connected, and this proves that we are one. One soul, mind and body. We like and are what we like. Animals, like dogs, recognize people because everyone has their own unique smell. People are attracted to other's because the things they see in them that they like, including their "smells" or signals. Which can equally be explained away by liking their personalilty.... they are the same! Or they are connected atleast. Animals live by the sense of smell. They mark their territories. They hunt down food, in the wild, (at least carnivors) by sensing the signals of the fearful, weak, young/old, injured, etc. Female cats go into heat. Mother bird abandon their young when the babies have been touched by humans and have their scent on them. Pigs hunt can find truffles underground by sniffing them out. And humans wear calone and perfumes, use scneted toilettries, and love good food (half of the ability to taste is through smell really). I just think it's interesting, that the sense that most people seem to take for granted or don't care about as much (if you can't see you are blind and thus "disabled", can't hear you're deaf, etc.) is one of the most important senses we have!!! So i guess what i'm saying is don't underestimate your sense of smell.... believe me, it's really pretty sweet!!"