Memory Triggers

[Atrax Robustus]

I've been spending time with a specialist who specialises in special things. In our discussions we often talk about Memory Triggers. Memory triggers can be images, smells, sounds - in fact any sensory input that causes immediate recall of a previous experience. Often, memory triggers are responsible for flashbacks to traumatic events fro some people.

Anyhoo, the discussions have had a side-effect on me I believe and I suspect that I've become hypersensitive to memory trigger and I'm now detecting memory triggers all over the farkin shop!

Sometimes the results are bloody funny and I'm finding that a lot of objects, words, sounds, smells immediately bring back memories of some outright weird shit! Tonite for example, while enjoying a handful of mixed fruits and nuts, as I reached for this:

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the innocuous walnut triggered recollection of Hannibal Lecter preparing breakfast with this:

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The relationship between the two is akin to pareidolia - the walnut does look a bit like a cross section of a brain - but I think it's plain funny that I remembered that scene from the movie when I picked it up and was getting ready to eat it!

Anybody else got some weird or fascinating memory triggers and care to share 'em with us voyeurs?

[Darwinsbulldog]

That is a good one AT!

I always associate Coal Tar soap with my granny in her house in Holborn in London.

[Mjt]

baby powder. It just smells like shitty nappies, and takes me straight back to when they were my job. Last time I had my little dogs groomed, they sprayed them with baby powder scented stuff.
EEOOWW, shitty nappy all the way home