Do you remember the scent of your childhood? Is it chlorine during a hot summer day at pool? Or a warm cinnamon smell of an apple pie?
As scientists have said, a scent can bring back the strongest memories from our past---moments that we might forget or those we don’t even remember happened. Associating smell with a certain memory is powerful thanks to an emotion the smell is connected to. It’s called emotional memory, which we don’t use very often.
Even if you have the memory capacity of a goldfish, by smelling things, you can remember the emotions associated with them. If you’re millennial, it’s time for some ‘nosetalgia’.
1.Xeroxed, Freshly Printed Papers
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