December 9, 2009
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A Sound Memory
People talk about smell all the time. Smell this, smell that. Smell your food, smell your friends and family, and forge memories that last a life-time! And that’s fine, for those in the nose. But I think something about it stinks. Unodoriferously inclined people need an unscented sense. I propose sound.
You know, sound can actually be quite powerful! For some reason, whenever I hear the musical Mamma Mia, I am automatically struck with quite a powerful memory (of doing nothing of import whatsoever, I’m merely using a specific programme on my computer in a room I no longer inhabit). Now, luckily for me this doesn’t happen very often, because I try to avoid all unnecessary contact with Abba music, but I think the point still stands: auditory triggers for memory can be just as powerful as olfactory ones. I just wish I could figure out how to create them. It’d certainly help me remember where I put the damn keys if I could simply whistle myself a cheery tune. I’m thinking Monty Python’s Spam song. That way at least I don’t have to worry about forgetting the lyrics.
Speaking of music, I can’t get this song out of my head. How I love a good Russian folk choir.
I love these old war posters (real or not). Anything for the boys, right?
This entry brought to you by: The weather! It has kept me at home, and given me nothing better to do. Thank you, mother nature.
Comments (20)
I learn much more effective by listening than watching or reading. Me paying attention in class would involve looking off to space (removing visual distractions) and cupping my ear to the professor..
I wrote a whole post on something similar some time ago — things like these tap into a deeper part of the human subconsciousness or soul; so they trigger things in us hidden away from our conscious minds, and once it’s triggered often times a floodgate is opened to things we forgot about, or repressed. I know there are a lot of songs like this, where when I hear them, they just bring me to another place. I think I should write about this again actually, thank you.
lol, support our troops! Give ‘em beer!
ryc: head tax. the canadian government issued a formal apology and reparations to head tax payers .. but ONLY to those survivors who paid, or their immediate spouse. my great-grandfather died deades ago, and my grandpa in 1962. my grandma sometime in the 70′s i believe. so no, we did not receive a dime.
you’re back! yay! I love those posters too, they make me laugh and oddly happy
sound is very powerful i agree, it’s probably the second strongest sense when it comes to forging memories. Scent is strongest for me though, don’t know why it’s kinda odd i mean how often do you really think about smell?
Get back to work!
music rocks =P
anything for the boys!
Unodoriferously
I can always count on you to build up my vocabulary!!!
you can’t smell stuff? does that mean you cant taste either?
Oooh, Abba. Best to keep your distance. Or plug your ears I suppose.
@curtainsopen - Er, no, I can smell ok. I just don’t really like smelling things.
who doesn’t like the smell of sweet taters in the oven?
what? i thought Molson was Canadian. there were no domestic beers to serve the troops? for shame.
ryc: haha, oh really? i like that. i made people stop a few years ago.
@TheBigShowAtUD - Er… I think the picture is actually for the Canadian military, so in that sense it is a domestic beer for the troops.
oh, oops. i should have thought of that. carry on.
I like the posters that tell people to buy victory bonds.
Me tooooo.
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