Taylor Swift is giving her most hardcore fans amnesia (and some are wearing adult diapers because they don’t want to miss a moment of the concert).
Ever have one of those nights where you think you had a good time but can’t remember a single thing? How about a night like that without ingesting anything mind-altering?
A number of Taylor Swift fans who attended a show on her current Eras tour report not being able to remember a damn thing about what they saw. This seems to be a rare condition called “post-concert amnesia.” It’s a real thing.
The Daily Mail has this:
Neuroscientist Dr Dean Burnett, honorary research associate at Cardiff University, said: ‘If you’re at a concert of someone you love, surrounded by thousands of very excited other people, listening to music you’ve got established emotional links to, that’s going to be a lot of emotion happening to you at one time.
‘As well as being exhausting for the brain, it’s going to mean all the things you experience will have a high emotional quality, which means nothing “stands out”, and that’s important if you want to retrieve a memory later.’
The emotional overload prevents the brain from forming proper memories. All you have to do to stop this is calm down and maybe scream a little less.
Meanwhile, the New York Post reports on fans who are wearing adult diapers so they can stay for the whole show without having to take a bathroom break. I quote rom a woman named Caylee: “The diaper rash and trench foot was worth this moment of Taylor Swift looking right at us!”
This woman TikTok’d her preparation.
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And then there’s this woman.
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