What do you notice when not masturbating?

Here's a crazy one that I've never seen mentioned but it happened to me. My sense of smell came back gangbusters. I had no idea how dulled my sense of smell was until I stopped pmo. When my sense of smell sharply returned, I was literally shocked.

I couldn't understand how or why my sense of smell had been so impacted. Believe it or not, there's a scientific answer for it. Yes, nerd that I am, I did some research. Alterations of dopamine levels interfere with odor sensitivities in key regions of the brain such as the olfactory bulb region.

 

@TheSumOfAllBeers interesting connection haha. My smell already returned when I quit smoking though. So I know what you mean. You suddenly feel like you've never really smelled (or tasted!) anything before! I'm curious now if this had to do with dopamine in my case as well. I always thought that smoking had just clogged my nose and everything.

 

@Going To Heal yeah I smiled back each time. Nothing happened after that. I didn't even want anything from that. It was just a heartwarming exchange of a smile that felt good in the moment. Appreciation probably describes it best. Very subtle, but strikingly frequent throughout the day. And I'm not saying people won't smile at you when you fap a lot, but you're a lot more receptive to stuff like that when you're on nofap. When I'm on PMO and binge really hard, I sometimes literally hate the sound of laughter or the sight of happy friendly faces in the streets. I'm just annoyed by everything and everyone then, and feel like they're all fake. Which is nothing but a reflection of my negative state while on PMO.