How Music can make your Vacation More Memorable
“A vacation helps to relieve stress and boredom, gives us a change of scenery, provides us with adventure, and helps to bring us closer to the people in our lives.”
– E. S. Woods
Music is an incredibly powerful stimulus, having the ability to activate multiple regions of the brain simultaneously. Emotion, movement, and memory are just a few of the brain regions that music can trigger. Music, in that respect, differs significantly from other art forms (like photography, which may only activate one or two areas of the brain. But, how can music make your vacation more memorable?
Simply put because more of your mind is activated in the presence of music you can actually create and hold onto more memories will make the experience richer in your mind. Naturally, you wouldn’t have to listen to music during the entire time for it to enrich your experience. Thanks to the way our brain works a single memory will trigger other memories. If you have a pleasant vacation them the sounds, you listened to can act as triggers to teleport you to those beautiful memories.
Music is, of course, not the only tool you have at your disposal if you want to remember the days of your vacation. Recording audio from the vacation can also have a similar effect. With the prevalence of smartphones and the plethora of recording devices, this is easier today than it has ever been in the past.
Depending on the nature of your vacation you may have more or less access to music, luckily there are audio devices (in the forms of MP3 players, phones, and radios) that can make music easy to access. Plus, you can listen to songs you like, making them an even more valuable part of your life.