Emotion

Today when I was writing, I decided to listen to soundtracks. It's a common occurrence for me to come up with ideas via this route. The way the sounds make me feel will strike up an image in my mind, and then I can write about it.

It's amazing to me how the sound or the smell of something will produce an idea or a feeling. When you really think about it, the human mind is full of memories, and viewpoints.

Here's a really strange one for you. Every time I think of sneezing, I think of sitting in the backseat of the car with my mom and dad, pulling up to an old grocery store in my hometown, called Lammer's Food Fest. I can see the exact point on the road we are at. I couldn't really tell you why all this comes to my mind in a split second at the mention of sneezing, but it does. Perhaps I sneezed when I came to that point in the road. Maybe the giant "L" as the logo for Lammer's is shaped like a big nose and thus makes me think of big honkers sneezing. Haha...I don't know.

So when I listen to music, a multitude of memories pull together in my mind out of nothing. I think it's really neat to hear of C.S. Lewis putting together The Chronicles of Narnia all by starting with the image of a faun carrying packages by a lamp-post. That idea really carried off didn't it? :)