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Oh yeah - lot's of these. I can't always remember the specific songs, but older adult contemporary will trigger flashes of memory being in the back seat of my parent's car when they had the radio on. I wasn't even big enough to see over the seats nor out the window very well. The green vinyl interior of the Pontiac is as clear as day.
Synchronicity, from the Police. I'm a high school teenager out in Toronto Canada on a class trip. Feels hip & free to be away from oversight in a large metropolitan area with the headphones on- a steady breeze is in the air - I can feel it under the right circumstances - headphones help.
Post College post-breakup depression. She left me & moved to the big city. Elvis Costello has me wallowing in the self-pity for at least a month. Many of those songs put me right into the same emotional state - but at least now I don't have to stay in it.
Smells are even stronger triggers than music. In college I conducted an interview with Anthony Kiedis from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He stood about 2inches from my face, and the smell of Marlboro reds was so intense that I had a strong flashback to my childhood, feeling face to face with my enormous and tremendously intimidating grandfather. The sensation was so strong I actually got disoriented and had some difficulty speaking for about 30 seconds (an eternity for bigmouths like me)...back from the dead to frighten me one last time. Whoa...
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