Technicolor cravings

[cheeni]

I would like to eat some banana nut bread. Yes, as simple as that, I can even feel it in my mouth. Some days, I crave for a pumpernickel bagel and cream cheese, but right now a slice of banana nut bread will do, thank you very much.

Isn't it amazing how vivid the memories of the human mind can be? Whatever causes this craving for a specific object from the past? I'd really like to find out.

Sometimes there's this tune that I can't get out of my head - MP3s were a god send. Once upon a time when I had a large hard disk, and P2P roamed free, I could almost always satisfy this craving anytime I was near my PC. Unfortunately, P2P has been shot dead (the herds don't roam wild anymore at any rate), and I don't have a big enough hard disk, or my taste in music has widened (I suspect the latter) - it's been pretty rare of late to satisfy this auditory lust :-(

Ah, denied auditory orgasms...

It's lovely to be haunted by familiar faces, lingering aromas, enchanting surroundings and fond memories.

To draw a physical analogy, it's almost as if the biological system periodically cleans out the archives. Taking out one cherished memory at a time, and playing it on the senses. Maybe it's a way for the body to rearchive the cherished moments; and maybe that's why you feel so good when you reenact the exact same experience physically. Perhaps, it's your body's way of rewarding you for helping it protect the memory.

*sigh* I'll settle for pumpernickel bagels...

Comments

[yogini.livejournal.com]

I baked banana nut cake today morning and ate half of it. :-)
It was the most healthy cake I have had in in a long time with fat free organic milk and brown sugar.

[sriramb.livejournal.com]

daily bread on church street; banana nut bread - yes; bagels - no.

[sriniram.livejournal.com]

I'm baking some this weekend if I can find a half way decent oven. And, no, don't even try telling me that I need to buy an oven :-) thaths just tells me he's going to buy an oven to bake me some bread :-)

The Brain

[annoy-nomas.livejournal.com]

Check out this site.

http://psy.ucsd.edu/chip/ramabio.html

He is one of your own from Stanley Medical College. Truly a learned man and he likes
Pumpernikel bagel too.

Other related sites of interest
http://psy.ucsd.edu/~edhubbard/
http://psy.ucsd.edu/~edhubbard/papers/JCS.pdf
http://psy.ucsd.edu/~edhubbard/papers/Ramachandran_2003b.pdf

Re: The Brain

[sriniram.livejournal.com]

Curiously, I was listening to Vilyanur Ramachandran's Reith lectures only a couple of days back.

Hi

[bulb.livejournal.com]

Did you have banana bread that day finally? :-)
Hi there, I came here after reading a comment from you in Blore community. Wanted to let you know that I visited, didn't know what to comment on most of the other entries. This was quite easy. Yeah, you have another reader.

Re: Hi

[sriniram.livejournal.com]

I think thaths got me some Date and Walnut bread. Close enough, I guess. Thanks for stopping by.