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Stench at a Sale

Morning of February 17, 2015. Tuesday.

This is a rare dream type where a nearly overwhelming odor dominates my dream's environment (with more potency than real life just as the sense of touch is often augmented in dreams). I have documented only a few of these in my lifetime, the first one featuring the very unpleasant odor of asphalt. In this case, it also has another fairly rare environmental feature where much of the action takes place near and in a corner of a large room, where most of the only objects, characters, or other features are.

I am at a clothing sale in what was once a large store full of items at a large shopping mall apparently in this area or possibly in Brisbane. The room is very large and at what would be on the right side from the main entrance of the mall, though all that remains of the ongoing sale is in one area near a corner. Several unknown saleswomen and cashiers are working, which seems a bit unusual as there are only a few racks of clothing left and hardly any costumers.

I notice a stench coming from somewhere when I go in to look around, though there are not many mens' clothes left. At first the source of the odor is completely unknown. It has both a chemical and metallic smell. The workers are annoyed and it is possibly keeping any more costumers from maintaining much interest in shopping. I buy a couple pairs of pants and soon find myself in the kitchen at my present home, though its layout is perpendicular (rotated ninety degrees east) to how it is in reality. For some reason I am sitting under the table in the center of the room where there are more clothes piled.

I somehow end up back at the store and approach the large hot water heater that is an odd feature of the store, the only noticeable feature other than the clothing sale area. The tank is near the middle of the wall opposite the entrance. I am clearly aware that the stench is much more potent here. An older male notices me and approaches as I tell him that the stench is coming from just above the hot water tank, which also appears to be leaking somewhat. At first he does not believe me, but when he goes to put his face closer to the top pipe he backs away immediately and nods in confirmation.

Two of the sales ladies come over and frustratingly ask if it has to be replaced and the older male nods. They seem very annoyed at having to replace the device (which I think also doubles as an in-store furnace) when they only have a small amount of inventory left to sell.

Even though the smell became much clearer and more powerful when I was near the hot water heater, there was no smell of any kind in reality after waking (though sometimes "phantom smells" and "phantom tastes" do carry over from dream states).

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