muscle memory

[snugglekitty]

The other night mrpet and I were at a party. They were playing a lot of the old songs I used to love when I was a club kid, what we called the Manray Top Forty.

The song "Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove" came on, and I was remembering the part of the lyrics that go, "You build me up and you let me down, you play the fool while I play the clown," and the way that when I used to dance to this song every week I would go up with my arms on "up" and down with my back on "down." And then we got to that part of the song and while I was trying to think of how it went, my body did it automatically, perfectly on beat, even after all these years.

Bodies are neat.

Comments

[chienne-folle.livejournal.com]

That's neat!

I was playing an old computer game that I was nostalgic for and hadn't played for many years. I thought, "It seems to me that there's a 'run' key somewhere, but I don't remember what it is." And then my finger pressed the "a" button, and the characters ran. My mind didn't remember the name of the key, but my finger remembered where it was.

Not as cool as dancing, I know, but we work with what we have. :-)

[staceyinastoria.livejournal.com]

That is very cool that your body can do that. :) I freaking love the pic you used for this post.