Emotion Memory

So emotion memory is the concept that you use the memory of emotions in order to recreate said emotion on stage. Sometimes these emotions are driven from sense such as smell and taste. Emotions have to be something that comes from yourself rather than something that is taken from someone else. That is not to say that you can't experience an emotion in many different ways such as viewing an incident rather than participating. With these emotions coming from you it means that you are always playing you on stage. This does not work in my mind. You don't play yourself on stage you create someone new or so I understand it or want it to work. It was interesting to see the madman exercise come back. As I read about them recreating the moment I couldn't help but think that I would do the same thing. Repetition is a good thing right...but then again so is spontaneous moments. Ahhhh confusion. I can't fathom recreating a moment or a emotion without it coming across at least slightly mechanically to the trained eye. The other point that really struck me was the concept of doing something perfect but on accident. This happens many times and when you try to recreate the event you simply can't and it seems that the harder you try the harder it becomes. Trying to find the stimulus of the action rather than simply trying to go through the motions is a much better idea.