Is it normal to get a metallic taste in your mouth when you see death?

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Is it normal to get a metallic taste in your mouth when you see images of death? Until I was 13/14 when ever I saw death,especially gorey murder I'd always get this strange metal taste and sometimes smell.it went away once the image had gone.I thought nothing of it really until a few months ago I heard that that was a symptom of mental illness! I was a bit of a dick growing up but I was no kip kinkle!

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  • Prisoner24601
    13 years ago

    It's adrenaline.

    Humans normally exist in homeostasis. When we feel threatened, often when we are put into a situation where we have a problem coping, there is a general discharge of the sympathetic nervous system, dumping epinephrine (also known as adrenaline) into our system.

    Epinephrine is a hormone and a neurotransmitter and when it hits it increases heart rate, constricts blood vessels, dilates air passages and is indicated as a metallic taste in the mouth.

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    • thinkingaboutit
      12 years ago

      Your sympathetic responses kick into gear if you stumble on a dead body, not a picture of a dead body. A picture will startle you for about half a second, until you realize your not in danger. Assuming that one didn't actively seek out a jeffery dahmer crime scene photo. When I was a kid, I went on rotten.com a few times and every time I got a super adrenaline rush that certainly did not end when I ran away from the computer to escape a gruesome photo.

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  • Kookas
    13 years ago

    Blood tastes metallic. You might well be heir to the throne of Death himself. You clearly are able to literally taste the death. Quite a feat, I'd say.

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  • Sabaky
    13 years ago

    Kind of lol

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  • stardogchampion
    13 years ago

    Arrrh.....shit I was hoping I was rare and ....possibly mentally ill but its just adrenaline? Cheers my dears!

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    yes i get that too sometimes and i agree blood tastes like that

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  • thinkingaboutit
    12 years ago

    oh, the wonders of the nervous system. It is not a symptom of mental disease. It is not a byproduct of adrenaline. It could just be an associative response. Like a certain perfume reminding you of a memory or person.

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