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Isn't it amazing how a smell can take you back to a specfic time and location?

brigden

brigden

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I was just drying my hair and for some reason I was taken back to '97 when a mate and I spent a month back home in England.

Funny, but I'm finding smells trigger memories of England a lot lately.
 
Originally posted by: Supercharged
It's cause smell is located in the same area as memory is in your brain.
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Actually, from what I've learned, memories are stored in various parts of the brain (as in one memory will activate numerous different parts in the brain). It may be true that a memory is more likely to be aroused by a smell and that a larger portion of the smelling part of the brain is stimulated when forming a memory, but they are no just "in the same place".
 
Originally posted by: adelphi
chlorine smell brings me back to the sweet childhood days spent @ the pool, where one time i always drowned
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Are you posting from beyond the grave? How's it like?

 
There is a certain type of cleaner that they only seem to use in passager heavy-rail trains which I absolutly love the smell of. For some reason that smell was permiating a certain lecture hall on campus, and I kept having memories flood back of good times with friends taking the Metra out into the surburberbs for random events . . .
 
Originally posted by: Chu
There is a certain type of cleaner that they only seem to use in passager heavy-rail trains which I absolutly love the smell of. For some reason that smell was permiating a certain lecture hall on campus, and I kept having memories flood back of good times with friends taking the Metra out into the surburberbs for random events . . .
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Oh man, I know exactly what you are talking about, except I used to go from the suburb into the city, for 4th, taste, concerts, whatnot.

It's almost a bathroom smelling smell and it probably has para-dicloro-benzene or similar in it.(PDB=urinal cake)


 
Originally posted by: ironcrotch
Ex-gf's and perfumes are the worst for old memories.
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I hear that.

Another thing is anything that even resembles the smell of airbags. I shudder when I'm reminded of the multiple car accidents I've been in, that realistically I should have died, yet somehow came through unscathed.
 
Originally posted by: ironcrotch
Ex-gf's and perfumes are the worst for old memories.
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My wife and I were walking through the department store one day...

me: I really like 2-7-3.
wife: Why?
(evil look)
wife: Who wore it?
me: Nevermind.
(shrinking)


BTW we've had this conversation more than once.

😱
 
I'm alergic to any and all perfumes. It's not a problem for me, I think they're ll irritating 🙂

Rain on asphalt is a pleasant memory
The smell of a pile of leaves in he fall...
A cold front moving in smelling of snow...
A blustery fall day...
Mist in the pines
The smell of iron ore, a coal stove...
Basements, attics...
Musty books, fishing tackle...

........................
 
There's this certain suntan lotion that my wife and I wore on our honeymoon to Disneyworld. Everytime I smell it, I'm in Orlando all over again.

I kept it in my console for the longest time and took it out to take a whiff occasionally....until my wife decided I was too much of a goober and threw it away. 😉
 
Originally posted by: ironcrotch
Ex-gf's and perfumes are the worst for old memories.
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Yeah, I know what you mean. I can smell a certain cologne on a guy and I feel like I'm back in time over a decade. I'm in love, and then he walks away and I feel like my heart has broken. I can feel vaguely sad for hours afterward. Damn, I need to figure out what that cologne is. I just don't remember the name.
 
Originally posted by: Bryophyte
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Yeah, I know what you mean. I can smell a certain cologne on a guy and I feel like I'm back in time over a decade. I'm in love, and then he walks away and I feel like my heart has broken. I can feel vaguely sad for hours afterward. Damn, I need to figure out what that cologne is. I just don't remember the name.
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It's a good bet it's coolwater... everybody seems to love it...
 
Just two days ago, I cooked two corn in the microwave, and as I pulled the plate out of the microwave, the smell of the three corns came to my nose and I suddently had a flash... I reminded me of my great uncle's farm when I was about 5-6 years old, he has huge fields of vetetables and I clearly remember going in the corn fields and smelling that very same scent.
 
Originally posted by: djheater
Originally posted by: Bryophyte
Originally posted by: ironcrotch
Ex-gf's and perfumes are the worst for old memories.
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Yeah, I know what you mean. I can smell a certain cologne on a guy and I feel like I'm back in time over a decade. I'm in love, and then he walks away and I feel like my heart has broken. I can feel vaguely sad for hours afterward. Damn, I need to figure out what that cologne is. I just don't remember the name.
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It's a good bet it's coolwater... everybody seems to love it...
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Nah, it's something an ex used to wear. I thought it might be Polo, but that wasn't it.
 
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