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28 Dec 2007, 7:24 pm

Post a sensation (sight, smell, touch, sound, or taste) and a memory it conjures up for you.

The smell of rain always reminds me of a water fight I had during a warm, summer thunderstorm. My sister and I ran through our neighborhood scooping up puddles of water in the gutter and we were soaked head to toe. I remember taking a hard fall on my tail bone on the concrete and I just sat there on the sidewalk for a while and drank the rain.



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28 Dec 2007, 7:29 pm

Smell.
The smell of Italian food sometimes brings to mind the time when (I was five) I spilled very hot spaghetti sauce on my knees and the were so swollen. My family didn't have the money to go to a doctor, so my dad rushed me to the bathroom and started rinsing my knees with ice cold water.


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28 Dec 2007, 7:35 pm

Ouch, that sounds awful.



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28 Dec 2007, 7:39 pm

yeah...it was then.


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29 Dec 2007, 10:55 am

The smell of weeds in the summer reminds me of the years of summers as a kid building forts and exploring the areas surounding my neghboorhood. The best years of my life.


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29 Dec 2007, 2:52 pm

taste i burnt my top of mouth ow


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29 Dec 2007, 8:55 pm

beautifuloblivion wrote:
The smell of rain always ...


Rain has a smell?



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29 Dec 2007, 9:28 pm

Hearing the word, "Schwinn" reminds me of people riding colorful bicycles in the park on a summer day, and smelling fresh cut grass, seeing sparkling sunshine, and feeling happy.


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29 Dec 2007, 9:33 pm

CK1 cologn(sp?) reminds me of when i was 13-14.



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29 Dec 2007, 9:43 pm

sort30030 wrote:
beautifuloblivion wrote:
The smell of rain always ...


Rain has a smell?

You just have to pick out those little details to make people feel stupid, don't you. Fine, I meant the smell of dirt, grass, and earth, that has been intensified from moisture.



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29 Dec 2007, 9:49 pm

beautifuloblivion wrote:
sort30030 wrote:
beautifuloblivion wrote:
The smell of rain always ...


Rain has a smell?

You just have to pick out those little details to make people feel stupid, don't you. Fine, I meant the smell of dirt, grass, and earth, that has been intensified from moisture.


Sorry, that wasn't my intention. But I couldn't really associate a smell of any kind with rain. Anyways, no sensation conjures up any memories for me at all. I find it hard to conjure up any meaningful memory related to a sense even if I tried.



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29 Dec 2007, 10:02 pm

I guess I got a little defensive. Sorry. Your post about sensations and memory was interesting.



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29 Dec 2007, 10:16 pm

I remember being in Italy with my friend. We both had a massive hangover! As always we got a pizza, I convinced him to try a horse meat pizza, it smelled like death! I've never laughed so much in my life watching him eat it, him saying how awful it tasted, the smell was hideous!! I made myself dizzy through laughing, I had to go and lie down and get some sleep 8)



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30 Dec 2007, 3:23 pm

The smell of cut grass always reminds me of summer - and induces in me the desire to sneeze, since summer = hayfever :(


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