Holly,
>>OFF TOPIC
when I first heard that
song. It almost brought tears to my eyes, it did.
It's always amazed me how music can evoke that phenomenon of recall, which is different from remembering. With recall you have a much more vivid memory experience, with the feeling of "being there" or reliving the experience. I think certain other environmental stimuli can evoke similar experiences (smell, tactile sensations, weather or combinations of them.) Wilder Penfield, pioneer neurosurgeon, was able to stimulate such vivid memories in his (awake, under local anesthesia) brain surgery patients, by stimulating certain parts of the brain. I'll take the Mamas and the Papas any time, BTW, for my evocative stimulus.
Jack |
