{"id":4312,"date":"2016-04-22T00:46:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T00:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bodyandmind.amsterdam\/en\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2016-04-26T12:51:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T12:51:09","slug":"music-and-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bodyandmind.amsterdam\/en\/music-and-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Music and memory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Music and emotion<\/h2>\n

Music can arouse strong emotions<\/strong>. Besides nice music you play\u00a0in the\u00a0background, there are songs that reinforce your memories of certain moments. Or memories<\/strong> of a person or a place in which a specific song or music has played a part.<\/p>\n

You are often thrown back in\u00a0the past\u00a0or to a certain place where you were when you heard this music. It can evoke pleasant feelings about\u00a0great events, about\u00a0a loved one or about\u00a0a particular atmosphere. But it can also bring back in mind bad\u00a0feelings or a bad\u00a0event.<\/p>\n

When I hear the song \u2018Photograph\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by\u00a0Ed Sheeran I directly think about the MH17 air-crash, because that is when I heard it first and the lyrics were appropriate at the time. Especially the pleading repetition of the phrase\u00a0\u2018waiting for me to come home\u2019<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0still gives me goose bumps. The whole country was empathizing with the victims’ families, who wanted the bodies to be brought\u00a0back home; and that took so long.<\/p>\n