A few days ago, I was going through something I had written, and there was this line, "He caught a sniff of nostalgia passing through his nostrils" I honestly have no idea why i wrote nostalgia like that. For some reason, my subconscious mind just decided that nostalgia is something I smell. The only explanation I can think of is that my mind got mixed up between nausea and nostalgia.
I think smell is most closely connected to memories, but since I end up smelling the same things all the time I think music is the most common for me. Nothing brings me back like hearing a song that was on the radio one of the few days I listened to it playing dragon quest IX on my nintendo DS.
I hate smell the most, because it's the one I am able to remember the worst and makes me feel the most "nostalgic". Remembering it is like being transported into a dream world. I don't know where I am or why I'm here, but more than anything, I don't want to leave.
Nostalgia for me comes from my much earlier years. It comes from trips to New York filled with the honking of trucks and the yelling of hawkers selling their wares in a language I barely understand. It's filled with the sound of cars passing and people walking down the steep stairs of the cramped apartment. It's the sound of kids playing in the park and grandparents chatting on the benches as we walk past. It's the sound of the bridge above rumbling loudly as cars and maybe a train (I've never actually seen the top of the bridge lol) drive across. Of course, the sour stench of New York sewage waters may also be nostalgic, but it's not as pretty lmao. And I don't nostalgia because it feels like my heart it's trying to reach out for that sound, that memory. It makes me mildly sad
ehh for me it's most likely taste it , with smell it coming in second. I think I have a hard time remembering feelings aquired from other senses except taste. With taste I might suddenly recall something I had long ago, and the memories of how it tasted would come rushing back to my brain.
Well, if I was reading that. I’d think you were describing a smell from you memory. Instead of a strong memory that has wonderful smells and taste in it. It is a memory of a smell that brings back that memory. Of course this can also be used as a bad memory. Like the smell of blood that brings back a memory of tragedy. At least that’s what I would believe you were trying to write
Smell. I have aphantasia so no visualisation and no inner speech/monologue. I can't picture the past in my mind's eye.
All my senses. One thing especially though, when I had a dream about my dead mother, I woke up in tears because I smelled her so vividly, it was terrifying. I remember her face and voice, but something about "smell" was just so much more real. I don't know why. It's said that people remember strongly by smell Apart from sad stuff, I feel nostalgia a lot, mostly by old manga I read, old pictures, sounds, books, etc. I would definitely describe myself as someone who revels in the emotion of nostalgia.
"A whiff of a nostalgic smell wafted into his nostrils." You can use nostalgia to describe anything that reminds you of a good memory.
There's concepts ... For example, I know what an apple looks like and can describe it but I can't visualise the apple I ate yesterday in my mind.