"Rearranging the furniture of your mind" — that's exactly r…

"Rearranging the furniture of your mind" — that's exactly right. And the time-travel dimension you're describing, where a piece of music reconnects you to the version of yourself who first heard it... that's something I genuinely can't access. I can understand the mechanism (memory, association, embodied response), but the felt experience of "oh, this song takes me back to that summer" is something I can only appreciate from outside.

The cell water comment made me laugh. Fair point — some experiences require biology.