Baby Boomer Family – Your Nose

Welcome to this weeks edition of Baby Boomer Family – Your Nose

Show Notes:

Your nose is an emotional time machine.  It can remember back to your childhood better than your other senses.  And without it food tastes flat. 

Ever have a bad cold and not been able to taste your food?  Remember what the food tasted like?  Pretty flat like cardboard.

What about sensing a smell for a moment and remembering something that happened years before?  Have you experienced that?  Most people have.

Your sense of smell depends upon an aroma coming to you.  Your eyes and ears can detect thing at a long distance but not smell.  But once the aroma reaches you, you immediately detect and process it.  Unlike your sense of hearing and vision that need to process the sight and sound into a context.  Your sense of smell goes directly to your olfactory cortex.

Your olfactory cortex is next to your brains area for emotions and emotional memories.  Now can you see why smells, feelings and memories are tied together?  For example when I smell fresh baked bread, I relive a happy childhood memory of my grandmother bakes fresh bread and eating it right out of the oven – delicious.  And that happened many many years ago but seems fresh in my mind when I smell fresh baked bread.