My Sunday person is studying psychology, & he told me that you have two types of memory; episodic & semantic. You can think of the two like this; function vs fashion.
‘Fashion’ (or episodical) is kind of like things that you can imagine what it looks like, feels &/or sound like. You can actually picture yourself feeling the situation.
Semantic memory is where you just remember the facts. It’s quite clinical. It’s things that are common knowledge, like ‘ a strawberry is red’ or ‘a chello is deeper in sound than a violin’. However this doesn’t include things that you learn from experience.
For me, I’ve already mentioned I have quite a musical brain, so with that in mind, some songs bring back memories. Not that I can remember particular details but I know the lyrics, not knowing how I know them perfectly.
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