In one respect, Megan Moroney and Kenny Chesney's "You Had to Be There" lyrics are so relatable ... We made the memories / We got the pictures / But you had to be there / You can't fake it ...

Do song lyrics live in some sort of privileged place in our memories? Music has a long history ... are generally easier to remember than if you tried to memorise these lyrics without a tune ...

That makes it “really hard” to form new memories. “If you’re slightly on edge, with a little bit of excitement, you’ll actually remember better,” McNay says. “But too much excitement ...

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That’s why many successful entrepreneurs grow bored once their companies are thriving; maintaining what you’ve built results in a greater proportion of thin to dense memories. That first sale?

But while the procedure seemed far-fetched at the time, technology has gotten us closer to the possibility of wiping painful memories from ... Instead of making you forget the memory entirely ...

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But for some, a phenomena in the brain occurs where they just can't seem to remember their traumatic childhood memories. If you’ve ever asked yourself, “Why can’t I remember my childhood?” ...

That would be useful for treating PTSD, in which traumatic memories cause the mind to link a neutral experience to a dangerous one. “But you don’t want to erase the fact that other behaviors ...

If you’re young, you know stocks and bitcoin can lose money at lightning speed. Just think of March 2020 or 2022. But your experience also tells you they will bounce back even faster and go on ...

Our memories are centered on our life stories and what affected us personally the most,” Sima sums up. Which, you might think, would make the pandemic–with its dramatic shutdowns ...