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The Curious Creative: Week 9

Music to Evoke Memory


In week 4, we used smell as a trigger to re-enter a certain time, to call up sensory details and freewrite about our grandmother’s kitchen. This week, we will use another powerful tool to call up a memory: music. When listening to a particular song, we can be overcome by flashbacks of people, places, and the strong emotion we felt at that time. Emotions enhance memory formation, and since music has the power to evoke strong emotions, it’s no wonder music is so intricately woven into our memories. Music is even used as a therapeutic tool with Alzheimer patients to help them recall memories. If you want to geek out and read more on this topic, check out Psychology Today’s article, “Why Do the Songs from your Past Evoke Such Vivid Memories?”

Your Turn!
What specific sensory details were called up? What tangents did you go off on? Did that same emotion take you to other memories that bore a similar emotion? Did you stay in the past or also write about the present? Did you notice your handwriting change? Did you come to any conclusions or just stay in a descriptive mode? Follow this site by email!