Your House Stinks!

Modified: 2020-03-18

When you return to your house after a long absence, it always seems to smell worse than usual. Well, it always smells that way! It is just the phenomenon of sensory fatigue (a type of sensory adaptation). As you live in your house, you no longer can perceive the smells around you. But, while on a trip, your nose can recover. Then when you return, you smell your house like everyone else smells it.

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