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This is surely fairly common for when people have intense experiences?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65765368

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Re: If you can remember a Taylor Swift concert, you weren't there
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2023, 07:19:54 PM »
I've heard of and experienced something similar, but in opposite circumstances routine, familiar, boring ones. Many years ago, I walked from my house to Hemel Hempstead High Street, in the old town, and suddenly realised, when I got there, that I could remember nothing of my walk since leaving the house. It was mildly alarming. I don't very often go to the old town, but the route to it is very familiar, so no doubt the relative unfamiliarity of my surroundings made me aware of my memory blank up to then.
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Re: If you can remember a Taylor Swift concert, you weren't there
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2023, 07:23:49 PM »
I've heard of and experienced something similar, but in opposite circumstances routine, familiar, boring ones. Many years ago, I walked from my house to Hemel Hempstead High Street, in the old town, and suddenly realised, when I got there, that I could remember nothing of my walk since leaving the house. It was mildly alarming. I don't very often go to the old town, but the route to it is very familiar, so no doubt the relative unfamiliarity of my surroundings made me aware of my memory blank up to then.
Good point, I've definitely driven familiar places but had no real memory of it. That though is surely instinctively more understandable?
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Re: If you can remember a Taylor Swift concert, you weren't there
« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2023, 01:30:26 PM »
This is surely fairly common for when people have intense experiences?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65765368

I've been to many concerts, although none by Taylor Swift. I've never had the problem of being unable to remember the performance.
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