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[top_boy]

Can you remember smells and tastes as clearly as you remember images or sounds? This isn't rhetorical, honestly, can youI know it's said that smell is the sense that people can recall for the longest time, and it is certainly the most seemingly instinctual and immediate of senses, but can you, right now, taste a grapefruit in your mind the way you

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[ex_anaxferus573]

hm, my body/mind seem much better equipped to recall smells and tastes than images or sounds. for example, i know exactly what my favorite foods taste like and i know exactly (and i really mean exactly) what neo's nose smells like. but i cannot remember exactly what things look like or sound like. maybe it just varies?

[top_boy]

It must. And the more I've thought about it, the more I realize I can taste certain things through memory.

I solved my grapefruit problem through a very simple device: eating another grapefruit.

[rubylou_mctabby]

I employ a similar device whenever I can't remember what my ex looks like.

[dada_sein]

when i think of a grapefruit, or rather my favorite grapefruity thing (a greyhound made with stoli and that horrible pale yellow grapefruit juice that comes in tetra-packs, the cheaper the better, a la the sidebar...) then little saliva-spurts errupt in the back of my mouth just like when i think of salt and vinegar potato chips.
maybe for you it is about language, and hah! you are a smoker and they (you know, they) say that smokers have an extremely poor sense of taste-smell...
i love marlboro lights!
*dada-sein
p.s. i love the phrase "sweet acidity" because it is so hard to say, would be a good name for a song or album, no?

[top_boy]

Imp!!
You have a Live Journal? Consider yourself friended, kid!
You'll be missed sorely as we get grrrrrimey tonight. We got a big new bass-bin so it's sounding criss, mate.
I love reading your first post as a Hamburger, can't wait for more. Oh, and the greyhounds are on me when you get back. Not literal greyhounds though, that wouldn't make for a very nice homecoming, now would it?
PS. I'm 3 weeks now as a "social smoker". That means no smoking for Jesse unless it's out at the bar or one after dinner. Not bad, eh? No one believes me though, sigh!

[anonymous]

some smells are more vividly recalled than some memories n vice versa its just ur sense of asociation