Quantum Quack said:Light it is a little funny that you should denounce our own sensory potentials.
15 years ago I was sitting half way up Uluru [ Ayers Rock ] in central Australia filming a sunset using a video camera and I got a wiff of sea air from the North. The wind was blowing from the west.
Now from this position the sea was over 2000kms away and even though you will probably say that it was probably just a salt plain or something a little closer I would reply by saying that you obviously can't tell the difference between fresh sea salt and stale plain salt. [ dired lake of salty water ]
Apparently it is quite common for persons to mention smelling the sea from the top of Ayers rock.
So whilst I can't prove at this time the efficiency of our 'ole hooters I have no trouble knowing it to be true.
Of course the way to shoot this observation in the foot so to speak is to claim that I suffered a sensory halucination of some sort and that I am deluded.
Hell, any persons observation can be shot to pieces with the "your deluded arguement". I am not sure but at this point in time I don't think smells can be captured on video or held in some way to prove anything. So how do I support my observation? Impossible to do yes?
Do I expect you take my word for it? Of course not.
Do I change my opinion about the experience? Ditto.
I would not argue against your experience. It seems perfectly plausible to me that a large mass of air could carry a smell and travel huge distances.
That would be one possibility I could accept; another is a source of odor much closer by that smells like something besides what it really is. A fairly common occurrence, I think.
So, no - I believe your experience.