You ever hear a song or smell a scent and it puts you back into a different time and place?
Like I can hear this one song by Blackhawk and it's 13 years ago and I'm driving the first new I car I ever purchased - a '92 Saturn SLT - cranking the tunes with the windows down, the wind blowing through my hair, in my scrubs coming home from work one summer day thinking about my then boyfriend and how fortunate I was.  Every time I hear that song, I transported.

Or this one scent, I'm not really sure how to describe it, but it's a bakery, hot, sweaty smell - not offensive, but not pleasant either - and I'm about 9 years old going down the hallway of my great-grandma's apartment building with my mom and 3 siblings to take Grandma home after taking her out to lunch.

I have many examples of this and I'm trying to now jot them in my journal as they happen.  So many times our memories stay in our heads and eventually we forget or others never get to enjoy them.  I know my kids love to hear about my memories as a kid.  When they ask for them I'm usually at a loss, but now I've been at least able to them them of certain memories as they are triggered by a scent or smell.

Pay attention, get lost in the (past) moment.  Remember When...

Check out this interesting article on the links in the unconscious from smells.

 

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