Songs

Jun. 7th, 2012 10:37 am
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I may have mentioned this before, but I have quite the memory for songs and quotes.
I can recall lots of jokes from movies or TV shows I've watched, and sometimes drive my brother crazy by using movie quotes too often.
(he claims that I sometimes only use movie quotes, but I'm not sure about that)

This also means that I can get a song stuck in my head fairly easily, and if the song's not terribly welcome at the time, I often (jokingly, usually) blame the person who triggered it.

Sometimes, however, I get a song stuck in my head for no known reason.
Sometimes I haven't heard the song in a while, could be years, and all of a sudden it's stuck in my head.

Once in a rare while, the stuck song feels like it's a message.

Last week, when I wasn't accepted for that job I've mentioned before, I got two songs stuck in my head.

Unfortunately, I should have written about this last week, as I've forgotten the exact songs, but I do remember that the first one was praise and worship song (along the lines of For He has Made Me Glad) and the second one was from an album of Lamb's called Year of Jubilee (it could have been Rend your Hearts, but I'm not sure).

I guess the point I'm trying to make here, is that while I was being all miserable about my rejection, my subconscious was trying to cheer me up and tell me that it was okay.

Date: 2012-06-08 11:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thefoxaroo.livejournal.com
It just means that your long-term memory works well. I'm the same. I can quote entire dialogue sequences from film, TV & radio shows. In some cases I can even mimic the voices of the performers.

Oddly enough I'm not so good with tunes. No matter how much I enjoy a tune I need to listen to it at least 20 times to be able to recall it with clarity. Otherwise it comes out of my memory as a disjointed mess mixed with other, unrelated tunes.

The brain is a fascinating thing. Research has shown that we humans have an entirely differnt area of the cerebral cortex for memorising faces than we do for inanimate objects. I watched a documentary which featured interviews with several individuals who each had suffered various types of brain damage and had lost certain abilties (not that I'm saying this is good, but it demonstrates the science). One man had lost the ability to recognise faces, but could still recognise other objects. Another man had lost the ability to distinguish ordinary objects, yet could still recognise who the people around him were. I'm not that good with faces myself, but I'm much better at remembering and identifying specific shapes.

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