I woke up with a song in my head. / myLot

Chile

January 7, 2024 8:05am CST

Good morning, friends. Today I woke up with a song in French in my head that I had learned when I was 3 years old. At that age my parents took me to a kindergarten run by a French lady. She taught us children songs in French. I don´t think I was there over 3 or 4 months as my father has a scholarship in the US and my mother went with him. We stayed here with my grandmother and my aunt but scgool was not a necessity at that age. I hadn´t remembered that song for over75 years. Yet it was in some hidden part of my brain. And today I remembered and with it a lot of things that happened to me at that time. Does that happen to you once in a while? It also happens to me when I´m taking a shower. I have always been a "shower singer".

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Mildred Tabitha

@mildredtabitha (16126)

• Nairobi, Kenya

7 Jan

I'm glad you can remember when you were 3 years old. I also sometimes remember childhood memories and songs that I had forgotten for many years.

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marguicha

@marguicha (223107)

• Chile

7 Jan

I have always had a very good memory. And music triggers a lot of memory for me.

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Mildred Tabitha

@mildredtabitha (16126)

• Nairobi, Kenya

7 Jan

@marguicha That's nice. I've had memory problems and sometimes even forgot my past completely.

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marguicha

@marguicha (223107)

• Chile

7 Jan

@mildredtabitha My memory has helped me a lot to overcome the loss of my loved ones.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (471459)

• Switzerland

7 Jan

It happens. A few days ago an Italian children song that my Mom used to sing to us popped in my mind. Go understand why.

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marguicha

@marguicha (223107)

• Chile

7 Jan

Those "tunnels" in our brains are ABSOLUTLY weird.

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marguicha

@marguicha (223107)

• Chile

9 Jan

@LadyDuck Imagine a song in French that I learnt when I was 3. And it wasn´t "frere Jacques" or the other ones that you listen to once in a while.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (471459)

• Switzerland

8 Jan

@marguicha

I agree, I cannot even remember what I had for lunch yesterday, but those songs pop up in our brain.

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (167015)

• Boise, Idaho

7 Jan

The brain is such a magnificent place and can do so much. I woke up with a song in my head a few days ago. Sort of frustrating cause I couldn't recall the name.

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (167015)

• Boise, Idaho

8 Jan

@marguicha .......Yes, I have done that before.

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marguicha

@marguicha (223107)

• Chile

9 Jan

@celticeagle Once I finally found all of a very sad poem that my grandma recited to us when we were very small.

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OceanTiara

@RebeccasFarm (89873)

• Arvada, Colorado

7 Jan

Lovely..it is nice to be happy to sing. Did Luna like it?

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marguicha

@marguicha (223107)

• Chile

7 Jan

I don´t sing near Luna. The girl likes good music.

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marguicha

@marguicha (223107)

• Chile

8 Jan

@RebeccasFarm

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OceanTiara

@RebeccasFarm (89873)

• Arvada, Colorado

7 Jan

@marguicha

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (106397)

• Marion, Ohio

7 Jan

I sometimes out of nowhere remember stuff. But not always attached to songs

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marguicha

@marguicha (223107)

• Chile

7 Jan

I do too. But music helps a lot in my case.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (340216)

• Rockingham, Australia

8 Jan

It's strange what memories are hidden but only get remembered very occasionally. Even when she turned 100 my mother could remember poems she'd learnt at school.

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marguicha

@marguicha (223107)

• Chile

9 Jan

@JudyEv Brain is still a big mystery for everyone.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (340216)

• Rockingham, Australia

8 Jan