Wednesday, October 20, 2010

I can always seem to remember people and things by their smell. Like, my grandmas house smells exactly like LaGuardia Airport, or my mother smells like her favorite perfume. I just find it a bit weird that a smell can instantly bring to mind a person or place. Especially places, nearly every house I've been in has a very distinct smell. One smell can smelt, like that of my childhood home, and bring to mind an entire childhood of memories. I think it's really weird how our senses can have such an association with memories. This is the same way with music. Have me listen to a song that i listened to a bunch a few years ago, and a whole new wave of nostalgia comes along. I find it pretty crazy, this whole sense-thought-memory association thing.

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  1. Smells are very close to the memory part of our brain. Unlike most senses, which have to go to the very back of the brain to process, smell travels through the memory part first then to the back. Which is why we connect memories to smells better than sights. (Also, infants can remember their mothers smell almost instantly).
    But that's cool that you noticed that, beefore psych I never noticed how strongly our memories relate to smell (and vice versa)

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