Why are we less aware of our own bad breath than a person standing close to us?
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Your nose and many other senses have a built in function to “filter”/”get used to” a stimulus that is constantly there.
They do that so you can sense new things that might be dangerous.
If your nose is constantly reporting your bad breath, maybe you won’t pickup a leaking gas smell or a smell of a rabid dog.
Same with you not feeling your clothes on you constantly, so you can feel if something touches you trough your clothes. You don’t feel your hair constantly either.
Hearing is an exception because of the mechanical nature of your hearing, there is so much that you can actually hear and loud sounds physically drown out other sound
When having some chewinggum, have you noticed the taste goes away pretty quickly. Try to spit it out but save it for a bit, have some water and splash it around. Taste your chewinggum again and it probably tastes a lot more than it did when you spat it out. Same thing happens with your bad breath.
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