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the highlight reel your brain edits, scores, and quietly lies about every single time
means the act of recalling or recounting past experiences, or the memory itself thus recalled
from From Late Latin reminiscentia, from the Latin verb reminisci, 'to remember' — built from re- ('again') plus a root tied to mens, the mind (a cousin of 'mental' and 'memory'). So at its core the word means to bring something back to mind, mind again.
- rewrites itself
- each recall slightly alters the original memory
- smell wins
- odors trigger memories faster than sight or sound
- reminiscence bump
- we recall ages 10-30 most vividly later
- therapy tool
- used to ease dementia and depression in elders
- nostalgia warms
- recalling the past literally makes people feel warmer
for instance
proust's madeleine moment — involuntary memory triggered by dipping a cake in tea, opening 'in search of lost time' (1913)