Sweet are the echoes that start When Memory plays an old tune on the heart!

I always wonder what triggers our brain cells to link up to a memory in the past the reason am saying this is because I have had this experience, well almost every now and then, that whenever I listen to some particular song or my nose catches up some specific or a particular odour, I go back in time to that past where I would have listened to this very particular song crazily like n number of times or really liked the odour(Aroma) of a particular dish or fragrance of a specific deodorant or perfume, or the smell of the woods like the one at my mom's native….

Though I am in present I feel the very warmth and the aura of that place where I had listened to it in the past! or smelled something in that place. This totally transforms me (though temporarily) to what I was then, for example, when I was in PU, Dil Chahta Hai songs were my fav of many and they were played on my tape recorder like almost continuously all day and now when I listen to this song after almost a decade, the moment my ear picks up the track I feel that I am in PU and feel the same old excitement and enjoyment as I had then - the happiness at heart ….

Similarly whenever I listen to Bob Sinclair's "World hold On" and The Corona's Rhythm Of The Night… this was played whole night long, the whole of mid night, in the pin drop silence nights, during summers, while I was studying for Masters back in Bangalore, like 3 years before, When I listen to this song in London now, even on deadly cold days I feel the same warmth I had felt back then, the same hot air, the sweaty hot summer nights, the exam tension at the corner of my heart… I feel so nostalgic about those moments… :)

A similar feeling when I trip down the memory lane, when I get to smell something specific but RARE. This does not happen when the odour is usual or very common.

No sooner I gulp in the fresh air in woods or a country side, I am already elated, I feel that I'm already at my granny's place in Tamil Nadu, back in India i.e at my mom's native and start feeling that I am still a kid playing with my cousins out there! joy o joy! Love them all, I treasure them all :)

I am so much fascinated by the way the brain works, it records something which is considered as a favourite and stores it in a few of its cells and tries to link when ever similar kind of events occur in the future, events in here is listening to the same recorded tracks and smelling the recorded odour!

I should probably go back and do some research and find out more precisely why and how this happens :) Out of sight is definitely not out of mind sometimes :)