Placebo and Jedi Mind Tricks

[Ahi Ka]

I’m towards the end of the bowl of st James plug, and I just got the slightest reminder of Grousemoor (not overly sauced version) on the French inhale.

it was enough to trick my brain I was smoking a different blend, and for the next minute I swear I could pick out flavours I know aren’t in this blend. It has now gone back to the familiar.

ive had this happen a few times, particularly with home grown ropes and it reminds me enough of a GH product that I can “almost” taste the residual factory aroma.

anybody else get yoda’d by a bowl?

it is possible that all of my pipes are ghosted with Kendal sauces. Even by just being in the same room.

 

[PipeIT]

Hey brah!

First a big Aloha to my island neighbor! ?

Well, let’s start with the psychological, the mind is powerful, we can smell and taste the past, certain things can trigger this sort of memory.

Next, well, are you smoking a lot of various Lakeland’s in the same pipes?

We all know how clothes can smell like smoke, when we are smoking, but I really doubt briar will absorb odors in the air, unless pipes were confined to really tight spaces, constantly flooded with extreme amounts of smoky unclean air.

Last, I wonder, since Gawith is a small maker, if there’s ever been times in the past, where certain blends, where they are being made, if there were traces left over, like residue, that carried over into other blends, like forgetting to clean the machines, containers, etc...

 

[Jacob74]

I haven't any of the plug, but I've been working my way through a tin of St James Flake. I haven't noticed much by way of floral notes myself...but then, I don't smoke VaPers out of my Coniston cut plug pipe.
I have, however, been Obi wan'd recently. Had some Sunset Rum and at one point it really had me believing I'd loaded up SWRA. Total dissonance!

 

[FurCoat]

I've gotten that smoking Brown #4. I got a hint of floral essence.

 

[Ahi Ka]

What i got today was straight up lemon grass/apricot jam. It’s happened before with st James plug but with the RB incense.

@Jacob74 I hear ya. There’s been some times where I’ve been finishing a half bowl of something, and the moment I realise it’s not what I thought it was, the flavour changes to what I associate with the blend.

the weirdest one for me is smoking EGR, every now and then I’ll just get Latakia overpowering everything for most of the bowl. It’s as if my brain chooses that what I’m going to taste.

 

[PipeIT]

Well, if you’re not smoking a lot of blends in the same pipe, then your mind is just playing tricks on you, or there are some similarities in the tastes and smells going on, and your brain thinks it’s different and associates it differently.

Like Dejavu the brain thinks, it’s trying to associate...

Wires get crossed all the time in smells. tastes, senses etc..

Like you eat a fig and taste chocolate...

 

[Chasing Embers]

Nah, that's why I've got pipes for different genres and even some that are blend specific.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I wonder, since Gawith is a small maker, if there’s ever been times in the past, where certain blends, where they are being made, if there were traces left over, like residue, that carried over into other blends, like forgetting to clean the machines, containers, etc...

Yep, been commented on many times here over the years. Some have even occasionally gotten Lakeland from Black Twist XX.

 

[Ahi Ka]

Yep, been commented on many times here over the years. Some have even occasionally gotten Lakeland from Black Twist XX.

I get this. Normally takes me about 6 consecutive bowls of a rope to then pick up on the factory vibe…though it happens with brown bogie everytime for me now

 

[Ahi Ka]

 

[Chasing Embers]

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Cypher was a wise man.

 

[bullet08]

This one is strong with the force. Quick! Give him some Carter Hall. He might find McClelland init.

 

[OzPiper]

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I prefer to stay ignorant

 

[Ahi Ka]

This one is strong with the force. Quick! Give him some Carter Hall. He might find McClelland init.

Knowing my luck I’ll probably only get carter hall out of dark star

 

[didimauw]

Some of us might actually enjoy that! Lol

 

[Ahi Ka]

Some of us might actually enjoy that! Lol

gotta have fries with that ketchup

 

[makhorkasmoker]

I don't know about the St. James, but unflavored tobaccos--I'm guessing you have not added flavors to your homegrown ropes--are such enigmatic things. it's easy to "read" into them something that's not actually there, and also to discover in them things you didn't realize were there, even after spending a long time with them. I've also noticed that because of the subtly of unflavored tobacco it's very easy to detect ghosts who might have gone unnoticed while smoking tobaccos with added flavors--by me at least.

 

[didimauw]

gotta have fries with that ketchup

I had a very strange sensation to want to try some McClelland's just the other day. I mean....I love ketchup. I'm glad it's gone otherwise I fear I would love their blends.