Recollections

What stimulates recollections? Why does it happen that an emotion which was stored in your heart since ages suddenly reappears with the stimulation of a sound or place? To me it happens usually with music. Whenever I listen to a particular piece I can always recollect the memories which I once had with that piece of music. And those memories are very crisp and sharp! These recollections are not triggered when I become conscious of them. They only come when I come across a piece of music accidentally. Moreover, these recollections are usually associated with times when I first heard that piece of music. They don’t last long either. But they are so strong that I almost feel as if I have a made a gigantic leap of time to that point in the past when I first had that emotion.