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Old 03-09-2010, 04:58 PM
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Do you know why scents can have strong emotional reactions? Coz the smell receptors are located in an area of our anatomy that is close to the memory processor of the brain. So we smell stuff and it triggers a memory (good, bad, or ugly).

As far as smelling fabric......nope.
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Old 03-09-2010, 06:16 PM
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I keep smelling chocolate cake out of nowhere. I haven't figured that one out yet. I haven't smelled any fabric pictures but there's always a first time for everything.
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Old 03-09-2010, 08:58 PM
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Originally Posted by sewnsewer2
I mean like if you are cutting apples, do you smell apples? Tonight I was cutting candycane fabric and all of a sudden I smelled peppermint. :lol:

Ahhh, the power of suggestion! :lol:
I have never had the pleasure. Penny
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Old 03-09-2010, 09:15 PM
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The photo quilt piece is really neat! I haven't made 1 in years, but your pics are inspiring! Dawn @[email protected]
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Old 03-10-2010, 04:24 PM
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OK you guys are opening up a whole new world. first there was petting the fabric-i had never heard of that. then you were seeing faces in the fabric-ok that one is closer, because i see things in woodgrain, etc.(Ievensee a cat in our church's stain glass window)NOW your talking about smelling the fabric? i feel so sheltered because these things never occurred to me. you notice i didn't mention the land o lakes butter picture- that's a whole nuther discussion! LOL
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Old 03-10-2010, 04:47 PM
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OH pleeezzee don't go to the Land of Lakes butter picture again!!
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Old 03-10-2010, 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by sandpat
OH pleeezzee don't go to the Land of Lakes butter picture again!!
Do I even want to know about this?
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Old 03-10-2010, 05:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Chasing Hawk
Originally Posted by sandpat
OH pleeezzee don't go to the Land of Lakes butter picture again!!
Do I even want to know about this?
no, no, never!
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Old 03-10-2010, 05:58 PM
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Did you know that there's such a thing as "scent exhaustion"? If you smell something long enough, the scent receptors in your nose stop processing the odor, so you stop smelling it. :lol: :lol: :lol: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:[/quote]

Unfortunately that has never worked for me in the case of the men in my family and their nasty habit of, ahem, passing gas!
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Originally Posted by renee765
Did you know that there's such a thing as "scent exhaustion"? If you smell something long enough, the scent receptors in your nose stop processing the odor, so you stop smelling it. :lol: :lol: :lol: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Unfortunately that has never worked for me in the case of the men in my family and their nasty habit of, ahem, passing gas![/quote]

Not to pursue this topic, but we blame it on the cats! Enough said!
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