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Strawberry |
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Tuesday, November 29 2005 @ 02:58 PM EST |
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 More than any other of the senses the sense of smell can quickly summon up memories. Smell, unlike the others goes straight to the limbic system. Containing the hippocampus (the master regulator of the brain) and the amygdala (identified as a center for emotions). One example being reflecting back to some sort of food cooking in your childhood home and wafting through the house and giving you that warm fuzzy feeling. Others may include fun times you had with friends and/or family perhaps at a summer picnic or so-and-so's birthday party. Recalling the specific smells can allow you to piece together and remember details of special times in one's life. It's possible in the present to detect similiar smells and remember various fond memories. Without smell the essence of many things would be lost.
So weird I know, but interesting though.
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