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What is it about music in particular that can take you back to a place in life?
Posted on 5/17/22 at 5:40 pm
Posted on 5/17/22 at 5:40 pm
Not even just a particular place, just a space in time.
The strongest time this seems to apply to me is like my last year of high school when I started driving and all, 2010ish.
It's wild how just hearing a song I listened to back then can make me feel all of that all over again.
The strongest time this seems to apply to me is like my last year of high school when I started driving and all, 2010ish.
It's wild how just hearing a song I listened to back then can make me feel all of that all over again.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 5:41 pm to SidewalkTiger
Good way to relate to things in past.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 5:43 pm to SidewalkTiger
I worked in a music store during high school so there's a loooot of late 90s music that I had to listen to on repeat at work - anytime I hear it now I get flashbacks. We used to start our shifts in the spring/summer of 99 with Citizen King's "Better Days". As if I had real troubles then.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 5:45 pm to SidewalkTiger
I just put it off on how the brain works, but it really is fascinating.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 5:46 pm to Horsemeat
I used to mow grass for my dad's lawn business in the summers and I wore headphones and mostly listened to country radio.
I heard a song that was popular back then the other day when I was weedeating my yard and it was a crazy flashback.
Kind of a bittersweet thing really.
I heard a song that was popular back then the other day when I was weedeating my yard and it was a crazy flashback.
Kind of a bittersweet thing really.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 5:46 pm to SidewalkTiger
Some people's memory is triggered by visual senses. Some by smells. Some by audio.
Think about the smells associated to the first day back at school. Music and visual keys can trigger strong memories the same way. Both positive and negative.
Think about the smells associated to the first day back at school. Music and visual keys can trigger strong memories the same way. Both positive and negative.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 5:50 pm to SidewalkTiger
Every time I hear You Should Be Dancing by the Bee Gees I think about partying and cruising through the Iranian desert in the summer of 76 before the Ayatollahs took over.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 5:51 pm to TidenUP
I think that's what tripped me out the other day (the post above yours).
I was getting the sound, visual, and smell at the same time.
I was getting the sound, visual, and smell at the same time.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 5:51 pm to SidewalkTiger
I can hear Crime Mob, Paul Wall, Mike Jones, etc blaring from some ratty stereos in the parking lot now.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 6:14 pm to SidewalkTiger
I think it's fascinating and wonderful how music can help people with Alzheimer's and other dementias. Even people who have completely lost the ability to talk will perk up and sing along to songs they recognize.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 6:18 pm to SidewalkTiger
If you look in the youtube comments on old music, there is almost always some comment like "dad and I used to listen to this when I was young and he died a few years later. I miss you dad." Always make me
Posted on 5/17/22 at 6:18 pm to SidewalkTiger
Totally agree
But there is nothing like smell-triggered memories, and there is a biological explanation for it (let me sniff my college psychology book to remember what it is). Be right back.
But there is nothing like smell-triggered memories, and there is a biological explanation for it (let me sniff my college psychology book to remember what it is). Be right back.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 6:18 pm to SidewalkTiger
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This post was edited on 7/27/22 at 2:05 pm
Posted on 5/17/22 at 6:18 pm to SidewalkTiger
Music is a soundtrack to a memory.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 6:23 pm to SidewalkTiger
I remember learning about this in freshman year psychology lecture. It has to do with the fact that sounds are your second most sensitive and memorable sensory perception.
Olfactory is most.
Olfactory is most.
This post was edited on 5/17/22 at 6:24 pm
Posted on 5/17/22 at 6:28 pm to LSUBFA83
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I think it's fascinating and wonderful how music can help people with Alzheimer's and other dementias. Even people who have completely lost the ability to talk will perk up and sing along to songs they recognize.
I watched a documentary about Glen Campbell's final tour the other day, toward the end, he could barely remember who he was yet was still playing shows.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 6:30 pm to Bunk Moreland
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If you look in the youtube comments on old music, there is almost always some comment like "dad and I used to listen to this when I was young and he died a few years later. I miss you dad." Always make me ?
I was looking up some old show theme songs awhile back like MASH and several others and there was a lot of that.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 6:37 pm to XanderCrews
Great song
Music is a great way to solidify memories, whether good or bad.
Music is a great way to solidify memories, whether good or bad.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 6:57 pm to XanderCrews
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