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Smells Vivid Emotional Memories

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Smells can trigger vivid emotional memories. What would be able to cause someone to feel emotions with an unknown smell that they haven’t been around since they were little, or maybe a smell that’s common to one self? Most would get a sense of deja vu when they come across a scent that hasn’t been around them since they were young.
This is because of “odor-evoked autobiographical memory.” This is due to the way our brain processes smells and memories. Smells get routed through the olfactory bulb, which is the smell analyzing region in brains. It’s close to your amygdala and hippocampus, brain regions which hold memories and emotions.
The main reason i’ve been going on about this is because I want to describe a favorite smell. When I was

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