This smell makes me think of . . .

[creekster]

The thread on marijuana legalization made me think about the connection of smells and memories which may not seem evident on their face.

Whenever I smell marijuana smoke, I think of live music in general and Pink Floyd concerts in particular. OK,maybe that's not so bizarre.

Any noteworthy connections between smells and memories among you others? (I know this is a potential disaster, but what the heck)

[Non Sequitur]

Whenever I smell chowder I think Jackie Evans, my first girlfriend at BYU.

[cowboy]

I love the smell of corn silage. It makes me think of fall and feeding calves.

Most people hate the smell, but I love it. As a matter of fact, I once put a corns stalk from the silage pit in my mouth and sucked on it. It has a tangy, vinegary taste.

[FN Phat]

1. The smell of the sugar beet factory in Caldwell, ID. When the wind was "just right" you could smell it on my grandparents farm. He always said that it was the smell of money. The last time that I was at home, the wind shifted and I instantly thought of my grandpa.

2. The smell of burning ammo through a gun, specifically a shotgun. Puts me back in the woods, sitting across the pond from my dad as we were hunting for wood ducks. Also, the thousands of rounds while shooting clay pigeons with the Ol' Man.

[Katy Lied]

I like the smell of sugar cane silage, which smells like rotting sugar with a burnt aftertaste. It reminds me of growing up near a sugar plantation.

And the smell of seaweed first thing in the morning. When it smells salty and tangy but before it has time to rot in the sun. That also takes me back.

[SoonerCoug]

This reminds me of a Nature paper I once read. The paper had some really interesting findings about how good and bad memories form.

If you give an electrial shock to a rat pup before the age of 9 days in the presence of an odor, the rat will form a positive memory as evidenced by heightened sexual activity later in life in the presence of the same odor. If you shock a rat pup in association with the odor after age 10 days, the rat will form a bad memory of the smell and will not engage in coitus in the presence of the odor.

In other words, bad things that happen to rat pups before age 10 days result in the formation of good memories. Bad things that happen to older rats become bad memories.

[Surfah]

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Whenever I smell chowder I think Jackie Evans, my first girlfriend at BYU.

[SoCalCoug]

On my mission, I had a companion from Bluffdale who used to open the window whenever we passed a freshly-manured field, because the smell reminded him of home.

I'm glad I never lived in Bluffdale.

[Commando]

This reminds me of a Nature paper I once read. The paper had some really interesting findings about how good and bad memories form.

If you give an electrial shock to a rat pup before the age of 9 days in the presence of an odor, the rat will form a positive memory as evidenced by heightened sexual activity later in life in the presence of the same odor. If you shock a rat pup in association with the odor after age 10 days, the rat will form a bad memory of the smell and will not engage in coitus in the presence of the odor.

In other words, bad things that happen to rat pups before age 10 days result in the formation of good memories. Bad things that happen to older rats become bad memories.

And there must be some ingenious practical application for this discovery that was doubtlessly publicly funded...