Originally Posted by
B. Carfree
I agree with Terex about the importance of smells to memory. I seem to recall from some long-ago reading that smell is the sense most strongly linked to memories. I don't know if that old hypothesis still holds water, but I have had many instances in my life in which a smell has pushed me down memory lane in a way that other stimuli haven't.
I don't have any evidence of that, but I agree. I spent my early teens and 20s doing a lot of surfing. And nothing brings the memories back like the smell of coconut scented surfboard wax.
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