smells
i just had a really strange sensation that everything smelled like cocaine. does that ever happen to you? sort of like you did a drug once, and now you occasionally can smell that drug? i get that with acid and DMT too. it's weird.
smell is a really strong sense. sometimes people don't realize it. i work in a soap store part time. people come in and smell the soaps and sometimes it makes them have such a strong feeling or memory that they can't help but share. it can be interesting/beautiful to see people sort of lose comport for a few minutes, and tell a stranger some random childhood memory.
do you associate certain smells with certain people or times?
nag champa makes me think of the trance parties i used to frequent. invariably. tea tree oil can make me have strong memories of a certain ex.
i just had a really strange sensation that everything smelled like cocaine. does that ever happen to you? sort of like you did a drug once, and now you occasionally can smell that drug? i get that with acid and DMT too. it's weird.
smell is a really strong sense. sometimes people don't realize it. i work in a soap store part time. people come in and smell the soaps and sometimes it makes them have such a strong feeling or memory that they can't help but share. it can be interesting/beautiful to see people sort of lose comport for a few minutes, and tell a stranger some random childhood memory.
do you associate certain smells with certain people or times?
nag champa makes me think of the trance parties i used to frequent. invariably. tea tree oil can make me have strong memories of a certain ex.
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hope the bath mopped up quick enough.
The smell of chlorine always reminds me of summers when I was a child and my brother and I would go swimming at the local high school swimming pool, and then we'd come home and lay on the floor to let the water drain out of our sinuses and watch Robotech.
That smell that fabrics get when they get old and musty always reminds me of camping when I was little.
Other scents are less precise. I might be walking around the neighborhood and a combination of some flower, the weather, and the quality of the sunlight might combine to unlock some memory, just a fleeting image, or a feeling.
...and I think that after tonight, the smell of soy cream cheese will always make me think of my little pony....good luck with the mop-up operation.
[Edited on May 25, 2003]