smell

Humans have five senses - sight, smell, sound, taste, touch. But which sense actually first comes into a new-born baby's mind? Nobody can remember the face of the doctor who pulls you out. Nor can you even remember how your mother looked like the moment you were brought to this whole new world. When people are talking about after-life, it seems there are less people who care about baby lives. Well, it could be kind hard to answer this question because no mother would allow a scientist to wire up a new-born baby, still wet, with electrical cables used to connect to the brain. That would look horribly dangerous, well, not for the baby but the mother. It is okay the question could never get an implausible answer, but Music make people grin and cry. Tragedy can be remembered by either sight, sound or even the taste of banana if one was eating it in his bathroom when an disaster happened. For me, smell by far is the most effective way to trigger long-time memory from my brain. The smell of banana sometimes reminds me of my exchange life in Vancouver (I had one each day as my breakfast because my homestay family didn't buy me too much of food). Images of anectodes happened in an old house in Taiwan always pop up when I walk in the aisle leading to our family base.