Intrigued by the memories and emotions I had/felt at childhood times evoked by the sudden smell of a particular fragrance last week on the rush of my daily routine I was led to find out studies regarding the connection between frangrances /scent and memory.
What happens to us is a sort of
transportation to the past when we feel a particular scent. I’ve been thinking
about this for a while, however, I got very intrigued by the way I was
transported to my childhood times to the extent that I could experience and
feel the same events and emotions I had/felt before. Perhaps it’s a common
sense that there’s an enormous connection between scent and memory – even
though we may not be conscious of it, we do experience it. Just like books, music, movies and photos,
scent/fragrances may inspire and take us somewhere else.
The day before yesterday I went slack
lining with a mate (Jeorge) and while we were coming back home we passed by a
small pringles’ can. Then, he picked it up and said he would make a pencil
holder out of it. The pringles’ can accidently fell on the floor and consequently
produced a kind of distorted sound (a sound of varying waves of a can falling
on the floor, I’d say). Guess what??? Yes, just like a particular fragrance I
felt last week evoked very fresh moments of my past, that sound of a can falling
on the floor brought some marvelous events of my childhood times back - playing
with childhood mates (that was awesome).
Well, I’ve been thinking about
this and I’ve got to the considerations that those experiences above revolves
around our human senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch). Maybe each
one of these senses is a particular and complex system of language that some of
us may or may not master it (or at least understand it).
Due to contemporary life we are
led to rely upon and exercise only some basic languages, e.g. verbal language,
written language, and visual language. However,
each one of our 5 human senses do tell us a lot about ourselves, our
environment, the people around us and what is about to come (intuition). Currently,
there are even some people claiming a sixth sense (watch the movie, by the way)
but I must say I should have some more readings about this issue. My final question
for this post is: can our 5 human senses, somehow, have a connection to the so called sixth sense? If so, how?
*I would appreciate any consideration about this topic and suggestions for further readings \(:_
* Watch: Perfume - The Story of a Murderer (Directed by Tom Tykwer)
This is a must-see BBC documentary. It's really worth watching:
