Triggers?

[debka_notion]

It's funny- I usually have a pretty lousy, or at least inactive, sense of smell. But certain things set it off like nobody's business (not, generally unpleasantly: along with not having much of a sense of smell, it also sometimes takes me a bit to realize that a smell is completely disgusting)- and they often trigger associations/memories. All the perfumes/colognes seem to bring up associations of dance camp. And those are some of the things that I seem to notice most often. Odd, that. I wonder why I notice those so much. Or why I notice the scent at camp much less lately: it used to be a major part of what I noticed when I got to camp. Maybe the bulk of way-over-done perfume users has gone down?

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[tirerim.livejournal.com]

Smell is often strongly linked to memory. Relatedly, of all the senses, smell is the one that most often causes people to commit suicide when they lose it (which is a rather morbid statistic, but really interesting from a psychological standpoint).