Elitsa Dobreva blog
It has proven tricky to decipher a healthy brain’s behavioral psychology: each day brings a set of exhilarating heights or numbing lows, based on nothing but pure chance: what coffee one drank, how they woke up, was there a symphony of drills below their window at 6am?
For everyone who has been following my blog or knows me, it is more than clear I am obsessed with smell and the psychological connection it forges between us and memories, places, and fellow humans. Olfactory recollection speaks louder than any photo, visual memory, and, fascinatingly, it works on such a subconscious level that…
I recently read a book by Clare Chambers, called Small Pleasures. It depicts the little joys in the life of someone we would think miserable, unlucky, a character resembling the Spinster. The difference was, she allowed the small pleasures of her life override the mishaps and worries. This book got me thinking about my little…
Due to extensive political reforms and uncertainty, a feeling of social dislocation was created among the early twentieth-century population. In search of stability, people turned to science and it quickly became a mirror and a corrective to society’s lifestyle and body image. As a result, numerous outlines of Darwinism and materialistic biology initially intended to…
Imagine a sunny Saturday afternoon on the court in the 1940s. An informal game is taking place, a keen photographer, close friend of the players, finishes his coffee and heads to the court to take pictures of the game.
Do you ever feel like a proper alien? It happens to me all the time – misunderstandings, arguments, confused faces, but why does this happen, considering that we feel the same emotions and see the same things? Why is that we are so different?