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winther.sysctl.dk · 18d · discuss

For the Bear Blog Carnival James ask us to write about music memories. I recently wrote about how my kids playing music affect me, but this will be on the effect from nostalgia musical memories can have. I think the scientific term is Music-evoked autobiographical memory. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug and for me, specific pieces of music attached to memories decades ago are something that really can pull on my emotional strings. A 90s pop song can be almost devastating - not the song itself as such, but how it subconsciously puts me back to simpler, safer...