What is it about music in particular that can take you back to a place in life?

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.

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.

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.

I can hear Crime Mob, Paul Wall, Mike Jones, etc blaring from some ratty stereos in the parking lot now.

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

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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.

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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 ?

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I was looking up some old show theme songs awhile back like MASH and several others and there was a lot of that.

So did Kenny Chesney.

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