Music/Sense Cues Cause Emotion
So a band I listen to has one album that is kind of sacred for me and I realized that it is not because I love the music that much but because I have super heavy intense emotions attached to it. I listened to this album a lot when I was going through a super emotional time in my life, and at the same time my childhood was kind of dying. So death of childhood + teenage emotional imbalance = crazy emotions. When I listened to this album the emotions got tied to it. The lyrics also somewhat represent the emotions. Therefore, when I listen to this it is super duper intense.
I am going to do some research on this. As for the album mentioned above, I will only listen to it when feeling nostalgic. I will find other songs that I will listen to when feeling certain powerful emotions. If it works, I will have "stored" such emotions inside the music and when I listen to it I will feel them. The problem is, if you listen to the music too much, you kind of use up all the emotion inside.
This also seems to work with other sensory cues. In fact, this has already kind of been proven by Pavlov, but I am on here to see if you guys have any personal experience. If you decide to do this please do not flood the thread with progress reports, as it can take months or even years. If any of you have prior experience I would love for you to share it. Also any links to articles/info about this would be awesome.