Thursday, October 29, 2009

Muscle Memory

After dance last night I realized that muscle memory is an amazing and crazy unexplainable thing. You get in the habit of repeatedly doing something that it becomes ingrained in your movements and eventually you don't think about it. Take choreography for instance.. you learn it.. repeat it.. over and over while struggling and thinking about sequence and music and what comes next.. a few weeks later you're repeating the movements without a second thought making it looks so easy. Another example is driving.. you get it and without thinking twice, step on the brake, turn the key (or in my case press a button), parking brake down, gear in reverse.. and you're off.. that's why it took me a few seconds to realize something was wrong with my car this morning because the routine just didn't work.

That was random.

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