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offline Zen Storm from St. Charles (United States) on 2002-04-03 23:17 [#00156919]
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I think that it's kind of funny how I can put a cd on and
it will take me back to a very specific moment in life, i
can remeber exactly my body position, and what I was doing,
how the room smelled etc.......is it like this for you guys,
and have you had a very distinct turning point ever in life?


 

offline Jedi Chris on 2002-04-03 23:22 [#00156923]
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I find the same sort of thing happens with my sense of
smell. Sometimes I catch a smell of something and it
instantly reminds me of something/someplace in my past.

I think the sense of smell is certainly the most evocative
of the senses


 

offline Darth manchu from Cambridge (United Kingdom) on 2002-04-03 23:24 [#00156924]
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Its amazing how all these things that evolved to stop us
poisoning ourselves manifest in such ways.


 

offline Zen Storm from St. Charles (United States) on 2002-04-03 23:24 [#00156925]
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I always thought I was alone on that one....different smells
do the same thing for me, I will be mentally warped back to
a certain person, or a room during a certain period of my
life......weird stuff


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-04-03 23:27 [#00156927]
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Think I heard that the sense of smell has the greatest
impact on memory. Some times I can remember a smell
perfectly, I know for sure I've smelled it before, but I
can't begin to imagine when and where I encoutered it. I
think these are probably deep memories from ages ago,
childhood shit where all the aspects of the moment are too
deep for me to recall except the smell itself.


 

offline BaronVonPickleF from United States on 2002-04-03 23:29 [#00156929]
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I fear no man but my shadow !!!!!THE BARON HAS
SPOKEN!!!!!!!!!!!


 

offline Zen Storm from St. Charles (United States) on 2002-04-03 23:33 [#00156933]
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Darth: that's a very good point, I just wonder why it is
smell that stimulates the mind into storing all these little
facts about where you were, even how your body was
positioned, finding its roots in such a primitave function,
like you said to keep us from poisoning ourselves


 

offline Jedi Chris on 2002-04-03 23:40 [#00156944]
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That is so true - the smells I usually recall take me back
to moments in time when I was as young as maybe two or
three. And I'm not lying or anything, because the place I am
instantly reminded of, was a place we moved away from when I
was three. Its a very powerful emotion!


 

offline EVOL from a long time ago on 2002-04-03 23:47 [#00156951]
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i'm with you on this, lil buddy.


 

offline REFLEX from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on 2002-04-03 23:50 [#00156956]
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Ofcourse its like that for me Man! Sometimes im with my
friends and im like " holy shit! I havent listened to this
for years! remember that time we were campin and....." you
know? and I throw the cd in nice and LOUD and well are all
silent remembering and bobbing our head to that old skool
tune


 

offline Jedi Chris on 2002-04-03 23:51 [#00156959]
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I smelt something in the air the other week, and no kidding
- I had an instant flashback to a scene where I was about 2
sat in my pushchair/stroller in the towns shopping centre. I
was so vivid and clear.

Also whenever I smell the smell of tarmac (new road
surfacing) I am reminded of the brand new house we had in
Oxford when I was about 8 years old - I can remember that
the house was that new, they hadn't surfaced the road!


 

offline Zombiekev from Ardmore (United States) on 2002-04-03 23:59 [#00156965]
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i actually dreamed a recent event last night,
but in the background was really fast version of sounds from
u ziq's brace yourself ep.

i was being pushed down the main stair well at school, its
crowded as fucksake. and my friends were being pushed
slightly ahead of me. it was really sped up. and i was
yelling their names to get their attention, but they
couldn't hear me over all of the crowd.
i sort of flowwed with the crowd out of the building, and
met up with my two buds.
it was crazily sped up and distorted though, like i was fast
forwarding it on my computer.



 

offline Zen Storm from St. Charles (United States) on 2002-04-04 00:14 [#00156987]
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So for the second question, have any of you guys had a
specific/unique moment in life that became a complete
turning point?


 

offline Zombiekev from Ardmore (United States) on 2002-04-04 00:19 [#00156995]
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birth


 

offline EVOL from a long time ago on 2002-04-04 00:21 [#00156999]
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the day i put in "mail order is still fun" a
ska/punk/indy/emo/core compilation on 'asian man records'
instead of the '311' "soundsystem" cd that i had already
been listening to for 8 weeks straight, i got in a a really
'stupid' car wreck that split my car into two pieces and
sent my ass to jail for 100 days.


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-04-04 00:23 [#00157002]
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When you mentioned the new road surfacing I smelled it in my
mind and had an instant flashback to a scene with orange
construction cones on some newly surfaced road... very vague
but it was pre-kindergarten. Powerful stuff!


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2002-04-04 00:28 [#00157009]
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LOLl, birth had a serious impact on me too! But a big
turning point for me, not trying praise the drug experience,
but it was a mushroom trip a while back. A friend of mine
mumbled some words, I made some connections that altered my
view of life and relationships in a positive way. Moments
later my friend had no idea what he had said, which kinda
blew me away. What what his reaction would be if I told
him?


 

offline corngrower from the fertile grounds of Iowa, w (United States) on 2002-04-04 00:30 [#00157012]
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It's best for me when I listen to something that I've seen
them perform live before, because I always have a great time
at concerts, so It makes me happy :)


 


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