I have been in almost five different places in tamil nadu during my school days, because my dad will get a transfer every 3 years. So I'd the pleasure of being in entirely different places at different time lines. I used to remember the good old days in those places I lived. But that is intentional. Some times some fragrances make me remember those days. This is what i called strange. Today I used the sandal powder in the morning, suddenly the sandal fragrance made me remember my days in Tirunelveli. I was wondering how suddenly this happened. Then i realized that in my house my parents were using sandal talc in tirunelveli. So practically i was exposed to the fragrance for a long time. That's why the sandal fragrance made me remember about Tirunelveli.
Similarly jack fruit fragrance reminds me of Neyveli, coz in my grandpa's home in Neyveli we had jack fruit trees all around and turmeric fragrance reminds me of Erode. We'd been in erode for a year where there was a turmeric go-down near our house.
Fragrance has a power to make u remember certain things. Certain memories will be stored with fragrance as the key index and can be retrieved any time if you smell this fragrance. Some thing like a hash table. I don't actually know whether i alone have this instinct or every one. I guess every one will be having this. If u have so, please let me know.
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yes da. i used to really feel bad when i used to get the smell of a particular incense. reason is, that's the one which was used when i was in kindergarden at my school when i cry a lot and hesitant in attending school!! but still whenever i get that smell, i have this unusual bad feeling.
ReplyDeleteoh ! dheena there is science behind it. the regions in ur brain related to smell wud have overlapped to a region related to places and incidences. So u r experiencing this way. U know they say einstien had his regions og time overlapped with regions somewhat rlated to space, so he came up with theory rlated to space and time!!!. Some people have similar things with days and taste.Like when they listen word Monday they feel like tasting chocolate !!! anyways nice blog - happy time :)
ReplyDeleteI have experienced it too...
ReplyDeletebut wrt certain incidents...which am reminded off when anything remote to that incident is happening again... or even when certain things/places are similar to what i have exp. in past...