Yesterday when I was coming from work, I met one of my old friend and we came to INA Market. As we were stood there gossiping my friend bought two sandwiches and one bottle of fruit juice. After finishing our sandwiches he poured juice in two glasses one for me and other for him. As I just took one sip of juice felt that I was about to vomit. Suddenly a scene came in my head that this is not the month of March but early winter, I am very ill and in a hospital and someone was forcing me to drink that juice. It was bizarre, it was unexpected something unusual which as completely not related with the present moment.
My friend sensed that I am looking quite disturbed and said that after all it is a fruit based drink, after all it is a popular and general drink then why I am making such a face. I could not tell anything to him even I did not know, he bought a water bottle and having water I felt relaxed.
On the way back to home I kept thinking about this unusual incidence, of my sudden exploring hate to that particular drink and especially why I was feeling sudden dislike to a drink that I used to love so much. At home I discussed this with my wife and she said that this does happen and if you don’t like then don’t have it again,
At night when I went to sleep I thought that somewhere in my mind there is some connections in having that particular fruit drink, the images of illness and vomiting argue in just having a sip of that drink. Finally I found the answer and answer lied somewhere deep in my subconsious mind.
Last year in the end of October I got the dengue and I was admitted in hospital. The doctor there prescribed me to have plenty of liquids and he suggested having liquid in the form of particular fruit form. So the brand that I had yesterday was the most common and safe brand. So in one day I was asked to drink at least three to four litre of that juice. I was so fed up by drinking that juice that sometime when I see that my wife is not around I would emptied the whole bottle in washbasin. So somewhere in the dark of my subconscious mind I got a certain kind of disliking with that particular brand.
My story ends here when I got the answer of one of the question and that answer lies in my mind. I have very little knowledge about psychology but I have certain interest in knowing about the human mind and human behaviour. Why do we like something and why we dislike, the reason, most of the time, are linked with the experiences of that particular thing or the people or something similar with that. None of us actually want to repeat or rewind something that we did not not liked or we had bitter or not so good experiences in the past. That is the power of our subconscious mind.
