Scents and the Memory
There are a few scents that trigger strong, specific memories for me.......sometimes it can feel I am transported back in time, to that place when the scent had a meaning, and for a minute in bliss.I recently bought some coconut room spray, and it smells exactly like my brothers car air freshner he used when I was 16.....it took me back to the friends and memories I had in that car, and for a minute I was 16 again.....
Cinnamon is another scent that will always conjure up memories for me....of my grandmother.....everytime I smell it I am transported back to being a child....eating cornmeal at my grandmothers table, in the small china bowls I loved so much....sprinkled with cinnamon....I can hear her laughing when I smell cinnamon...
Lilacs take me back to a magical time of youth also, picking the lilacs off of the trees in my parents backyard, and the sweet smell they spread around the house, when the wind would blow......
The smell of rain is another I will never forget, and will always bring a smile to my face.....
These are just a few of the scents that trigger very strong memories for me...so that got me thinking about memories and how our minds store them as information, and how we recall specific memories based solely off of scent....and how our experiences can shape a positive or negative memory and attach it to a time, a place, or a scent......
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Mybe u forgot to write the smelly fish that triggers u to eat a chicken with a silver spoön???? Lol joke
All nice scented things can attached to a nice and sweet memories that never fades or can steal from u!
If ur mind is full, theres always space in our heart!
Tnx
Keep it up!
10k...did you lose your sense of smell? I once met a guy who had no sense of smell....so I wondered how that would affect his memories...he said that his other senses were heightened....claimed he had 'superman' hearing.....
Very strange to lose sense of smell ... reminds me about kallmann syndrom....
lol
Cheers.
That would be awesome.....I always ate jolly ranchers when I was little.....the green ones were my favorite!
Only last week I was in a shop when I passed a bloke with a bad case of BO. Without laying eyes on him I knew who it was. Hadn't seen him in 15 years.
when mother changed the bed sheets .. she used to pile 'em all up on the floor in the laundry room ...
That made an excellent cloth-pool for me to swim in ....
That would have remaind a sweet childhood memory if I were to never realise what bed-sheets might be subjected to ..
Nahh ... just speak your mind .... tell him that u wanna be his neighbour simply to rip all his cloths off and .................................
LOL
I had a fantastic grilled cheese sandwich for dinner.