Time travel -II

What determines the mood of a person? I think just the following:
a) Food
b) People
c) Music/Movie

Our brain (hats off god!) groups files in sets of folders. You try to access just one file among them, you inevitable pick the entire folder. Some association among the files. But the same file can be part of multiple folders. Something like the song Coming back to Life of Floyd being part of 'All time favorites' as well as 'Make her listen these' playlists.

So as you lead your life, you slowly build up a huge database of feelings. What are feelings? I feel happy/Down/High/Low what ever. Its exactly this - The precise level of your hormones - (I know I've mentioned it in one of the earlier blogs). Nothing else. For guys there aren't many where as for the ladies there are innumerable. And the infinite combinations of them. Well thats why the guy doesn't 'Understand how she feels' always (Well, after a while he does say 'I understand how you feel' but I bet its just a statistical observation). So coming back to the point. How are food/music/movies/people/touch influencing the mood. Simple, they set the hormone level.

Take this. You listen to Dil Chahta Hai or RHTDM songs and suddenly you 'feel' nostalgic about your hostel wing (and probably the tasty chola batura in RBM mess!). You watch Swades and remember the day you made job (just because you happen to watch it the very next day). While accessing one file, you pick up the entire folder. This sometimes results in hallucinations. Not just visual. Olfactory as well. How many of you guys feel faintly that you smell your gal's fav perfume when you browse through old college pics or read some mails while rummaging through the inbox.

Well. Try it. Recreate just one (hopefully something strong) scenerio and see how you feel the hallucinations. So, its just the hormones. So, its easy to time travel.