Is there a smell , word , phrase or sentence that.....?

Question

acts as a trigger for your senses , feelings or emotions........that gets an instant response or flashback ...?

Answer 1

I have plenty of those. some make sense others I can't explain.
for example the sound of the traffic outside my work ( and only there), reminds me of the sounds from a hotel room in bolonia, Italy.
I could never figure out why.

Answer 2

Oh so many... there is a tree that has flowers that take me back to my first year of marriage, pregnant with our first child... it was a great time... There was one of these trees on the way to the house we lived back then. Husband says they're called enchanted flowers...
Also the smell of home baked bread... takes me back to my family home and my late mom...
Now words and phrases are a problem for me, because I will hear them and remember a part of a song (which I don't always know so well) instantly. In class, that happens all the time and I have to keep quiet sometimes in order not to annoy the students with my memories... lol...

Answer 3

Yes...there are some that I don't quite understand. For instance...a few times I have seen something seemingly innocuous, which triggered an sense of intense fear and disgust. I don't have any idea why.
Then there is my disgust for a certain color...it is kind of a salmon-y pinkish color...I hate that color because when I was little, I was visiting my grandfather, and he let me keep drinking this fruit flavored soda (of that color) to the point that it made me positively ill. Ick!
Then there are also certain words that cause VERY powerful emotions for no know reason.
Isn't that strange??

Answer 4

Yea there are songs when i hear them i quickly have an instant flashback,its a nice feeling!

Answer 5

The smell of babies. Whenever I hold a newborn baby in my arms, I remember the moment I first held my own daughter for the first time. :)

Also, the smell of the wet ground after it rains, and the smell of freshly mowed grass ... I feel so happy when I smell these two smells. I just love them. It's like the smell of new life, new beginnings, so fresh and clean.

Answer 6

Good Question as usual Aussie .

The phrase " Yahoo Answers Lebanon Category " , make me remember all of my friends and lovely people here .

Answer 7

big — duży small — mały soft (like a blanket) — miękki ( jak kocyk) hard (like a rock) — twardy ( jak kamień) cold — zimno hot — gorąco old — stary new — nowy good (heroic) — dobry ( bohater) bad (villianous) — zły ( nędznik) bad (not quality, like: "this milk taste bad!" or "jeremy smells bad!") — okropne ; to mleko smakuje okropnie; Jeremy pachnie okropnie good (quality) — dobra jakość light (like: "it's light outside") — widno ; jest widno nazewnątrz dark (like: "it's dark in here") — ciemno ; jest ciemno tutaj light ( like: "this is a really light blue") — jasny ; to jest jasny niebieski kolor dark (like: "those are dark red shoes") — ciemny ; to są ciemno czerwone buty. hot (beautiful, sexy) — ( if i recall there is no word for ’hot’ in polish. Instead I will give you the translation for beautiful and sexy) Piękna, sexowna ugly — brzydki cute — milutka pretty (beautiful, sexy) — ładna happy — szczęśliwy sad — smutny mad — zdenerwowany here — tutaj there — tam tommorow — jutro yesterday — wczoraj today — dzisiaj usually — zwykle now — teraz 1) he is ugly. — on jest brzydki 2) tomorrow i will eat candy. — jutro zjem cukierki 3) that ugly boy eat my new candy here, yestarday. ( i think you meant to say ’ that ugly boy ate my candy yesterday’ — Wczoraj Ten brzydki chłopiec zjadł moje cukierki or Ten brzydki chłopiec zjadł wczoraj moje cukierki ( it depends on the context of the sentence ) I hope I helped you. Good luck with your Polish lessons, it takes alot of dedication to learn a new language and it's not easy (especially polish). If you ever need any more assistance with polish I'm always glad to help !

Answer 8

a lot of smells take me back .. esp. the smell of fresh crayons ... takes me back to KG ...

phrases .. well there's always "smooth move ex-lax" or the Terminato's "I'll be back" ..

The sounds of Arcade games bring be back to a much simpler age .. like Asteroids, Pacman, and Street Fighter ...

Answer 9

yes and I hate it.. Id rather not remember I hate these flashbacks ..for me its usually a song or a smell that does it

Answer 10

Yes, nutmeg, it brings me back to my childhood for some reason