I have read that the two predominant triggers for memories are smell and music. I have to agree with both. For quite a while after Mother died, anyone wearing her perfume would send me into a crying jag.
Nearly every song I know and love has an original memory attached to it. Many songs have a stack of memories now, but some, like this one below, primarily bring back my first memory of listening to it. This song just came on my computer music player (set on random), and the memories burst forth.
