I have been reading the book How Loud Can You Burp? by Glenn Murphy to Henry over the last week and it's a great book full of some wonderful nuggets of information. Aimed at and written for kids it's still informative without talking down to them.
Anyway one of the questions deals with memories. It seems that memories are stored in our brains in little chunks here and there and not all together as one memory. Parts of the memory can then trigger the whole memory to be recalled. Strong elements are often the bits that make us remember, and music is one of them.
Driving back this morning from Gatwick airport my mind has taken me on a trip down memory lane with the help of my MP3 player (iRiver not iPod) hooked up to the car stereo. One song triggers a memory which reminds me of another song which trips another memory, and so on. Of course the lyrical content has to be good to help with this so not sure if this will still hold true for our kids in the future.
In an empty car with the music turned right up and the sun rising, it has been a good morning. You can't beat the Pogues belting out Sally MacLennane at 5am!
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