Name: 我們為什麼會感到懷舊？ (Why Do We Feel Nostalgia?)
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Why does music make us feel the way it does?

And why do songs sometimes gets stuck in our heads?

James May, from the YouTube channel Head Squeeze,

thanks for the music. Pleasure. Why can music bring back memories?

That is a very good question actually. I've often wondered why it has this power

actually to unlock a completely dormant memory, something that's gone as far as you

and then it chooses, usually a pop tune from say ten or twenty years ago,

bang, there you are, wherever you were at the time. Sometimes it's positive,

feeling emotions because of music and dancing

Your identity. Because, really, physically speaking,

you are losing atoms and gaining new ones from what you eat and drink.

It takes about five years to replace every atom in your body,

which means that the matter that we call you today

was not part of you five years ago. If we speed the process up we start to see

is just a temporary group of atoms and molecules that, nonetheless,

keep the same name the whole time. Now this is what we think of when we think

but to an alien, who could track individual atoms,

and only saw maybe a few frames per decade, you would appear to be what you really

So, what's consistent here? What are you?

Nostalgia, fondly remembering the past, what you

used to do and who used to be might simply be a way for your brain

to answer that question or at least cool down the anxieties it causes.

Because even at a macroscopic scale, you are always changing.

You have different friends, different behaviors, different moods, different

it would have been possible to have been nostalgic for a time

That's because in 1688 Johannes Hofer coined the term

by combining the Greek words for returning home

and pain. Nostalgia was originally seen as a quite serious medical condition,

affecting soldiers who missed home so much

that they broke down and were unable to fulfil their duties.

because nostalgia is really all about you.

Your memories, your past, who you used to be

and consequently who you are now, which makes nostalgia an often healthy way to

'who am I?' Well, you're a person who remembers specific events in the past.

You existed in the past and are a continuous

being. A popular theory argues that the psychological effects of nostalgia,

connecting with your younger self and building a continuous

identity, are advantageous, and so we're naturally selected to be

your habits, your friends, your job, you learn things and forget things,

but nostalgia allows you to connect all of those

events, which is especially helpful during times of major life

entering adulthood or aging, when study showed that nostalgia

is at its strongest. But if tucking in and lining up all of your life experiences into

is so advantageous, why don't we feel nostalgic for

everything in the past? Why don't you feel nostalgia for

what happened one minute ago? Why don't you feel nostalgic for the way this

video began? Well, the lifespan retrieval curve

might offer some clues. It's an average plot of distinct autobiographical memories

and it reveals what is called the reminiscence

bump. A time between 15 and 30 years of the age, where more memories are encoded.

This time in your life, both while you are living it and later,

is thought to be important because it's so linked to the formation of our

self-identities. Memories formed during that bump

tend to be the ones we are most nostalgic for

and because we want our continuous identities to be positive,

we tend to be nostalgic for good memories,

not bad ones. Individually and collectively we also tend to be

on things as if they were better than at the time they

really were. Twenty years after leaving his hometown

Abraham Lincoln returned to it and looking upon it remembering it

he wrote these lines of poetry. "My childhood's home

and still as memory crowds my brain, there's pleasure

in it too." Abraham Lincoln might seem like

a quite ancient person, someone from way back in history.

But here's some perspective. On February 9,

1956, a date within the lives of some of our parents and many of our grandparents,

this old man appeared on the television show

"I've got a secret." What made him so special?

an eyewitness. Goodnight, Mr. Seymour. How old are you by the way, Sir?

He was allive and in attendance at Ford's Theatre

on the very day Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.

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