How can you imagine what something smells like? Like you can smell it… but you obviously can’t. How does your mind put that together?
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When you sleep, your memories of the day are stored away, like little boxes on a shelf. If you imagine your senses as 5 people, they each put things in the boxes when they’re being put away.
Sight, smell, touch, taste, and feel.
Your imagination would be those people pulling down boxes and playing with the things they placed inside.
If you imagine an yellow flower, but have never seen a yellow flower before, your sight person will pull down a box he placed a flower inside of, then maybe a box he placed a banana inside of, then put them together.
While your sight person is playing with the flower and banana. The other 4 want to pull out their stuff from those boxes too, so the smell person pulls out the smell of when you saw the banana and flower and plays with it.
When you look at a picture, the sight person searches for a box that already has that thing inside it so he doesn’t have to use another box for the same toy. They are very particular about that.
When sight person finds one and opens it up, your smell person can grab his stuff out at the same time, and it becomes really easy to smell the picture you’re looking at.
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