The most beautiful smell in the world
How important a navigation system is is the nose is probably aware of the time – not only when it comes to the nose, but also when the nose leads him through the labyrinths of the mind. That a man’s nose has more power than he was recognized by the great mind of that time, was determined 90 years ago by an American psychologist Donald Anderson Laird.
His contemporaries, including Freud, were dealing with others, “More important” feltespecially Vid, and he tried to prove that smell was the key to many memories. As can be read in an article in a magazine Harvard Medicinewith his colleagues, gathered a group of just over 250 participants and asked them to record moments in which scents encouraged memories of the past. Tens of stories were accumulated: the smell of the perfume awakened the memory of the awkwardness in the dance course, the smell of wool on the uncle’s forgotten coat, the son of a worker on the saw relived pictures from childhood with the smell of sawdust … The memories that were summoned by the scents were so intense that Laird asked, «
What is thanks to the French writer Marcela Prousta The tailoring name of Magdalenica is widely known today, but still neuroscientists are disturbing the question of how it is that the smell arouses such strong feelings. Studies have shown that the memories caught by the nose, compared to those perceived by other senses, are more emotional and more likely to go to the earlier life span, as stated in the aforementioned Magazine Faculty at Harvard. Therefore, smell and with it smell significantly affects our (well) well -being, although we are often not even aware of it.
A long time ago, my son reminded me when we walked through the front door after a short vacation.
– this smell. I feel like a summer vacation and we returned home after a long time.
– Probably because we have not yet ventilated the apartment. Are you very disturbed by this smell?
– No, this is the most beautiful scent in the world.
