Tegan Taylor

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What's That Rash? · What has your nose got to do with sleep? · 18 Aug 2026 podcast

What about like smelling salts?

Yeah.

So basically it's not re it's not really research, but it's people who are in this space who've kind of figured it out for themselves.

So the event that I was part of included Professor Bruno Van Swindren from the Queensland Brand Institute at the University of Queensland.

And he sort of threw this out as like, oh, if you want a tip to like get back to sleep if you wake up in the night, do what I do and smell a strong odor.

And I will admit now, Norman, that we're deep in the episode that I originally thought about farts as well.

Like what you just ask your partner to fart and stick your head under the covers.

I don't know.

It's more complicated than that.

But I basically went back to Bruno and asked him to explain in more detail, which of course he did.

And he said he learned the trick from a sleep research colleague, and he says it has a solid basis in neuroscience.

And this is coming from someone who is a neuroscientist, so I'm believing him.

He says insomnia is often caused by anxiety.

Anxiety, which involves a part of the brain called the amygdala, which you mentioned before, you often go into sort of anxious loops that are hard to snap out of, hence the insomnia.

Smell, as you said before, Norman, is the only sense that bypasses the thalamus filter.

It goes straight from the nose to the amygdala for some reason, which is why odors often evoke strong emotional responses, as we said.

So if you can smell a strong odor,

While you're in one of these anxiety loops, that odor can kind of break the cycle and momentarily reset your brain and kind of help you go back to sleep again.

And by the chair.

But he said there's a couple of things.

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