Blank Space isn’t just one of Taylor Swift’s biggest hits.
Some megafans have reported suffering from a strange phenomenon after attending the UK leg of their Eras Tour: total amnesia.
After four hours of adrenaline, excitement and more than 40 songs, the Swifties return home and realize they don’t remember anything.
Psychologists say it is a recognized syndrome, caused by intense emotions and a vibrant atmosphere that makes it difficult to form memories.
And due to the unprecedented levels of publicity surrounding Swift’s tour, it seems more people have been affected than ever.
Some megafans, or Swifties, reported experiencing a strange phenomenon after attending the UK leg of her Eras tour.
Taylor Swift is joined on stage by Travis Kelce (R) during the Eras Tour show in London on Sunday night.
@champaigeproblems (left) shared her post-concert experience on social media. In a TikTok post that now has 33.7k likes, he admitted to not remembering the concert. Fan @clare.marie56, (right), who shared a video of the night of her at Liverpool’s Andfield Stadium on TikTok, claimed she was grateful for the videos she has of the night as it’s all “a blur.” “.
After four hours of adrenaline, excitement and more than 40 songs, fans return home and realize they don’t remember anything. @Kiana commented on @clare.marie56 that she agrees that she only remembers about 40 percent of the concert.
Concertgoers in the United States have already reported the strange symptom, which experts call “post-concert amnesia.”
And now social media is full of disturbing accounts from fans who attended Swift’s London dates and were affected by it.
One Swiftie, known as @champaigeproblems on TikTok, shared her post-concert experience on social media.
In a post that now has 33.7k likes, he said: ‘Post-concert depression? No, I have post-concert amnesia because why don’t I remember the eras tour at all? Like I was there and I knew it was the time of my life, but why don’t I remember?
Another fan @clare.marie56, who shared a video of her night at Liverpool’s Andfield stadium on TikTok, said she was grateful for the videos she has of the night as it’s all “a blur”.
She said: ‘It was weird, I was there. I literally don’t remember anything. Eras travels through amnesia.
Although fans are unlikely to be left without any memories, they may be left with only one feeling.
“Emotion affects the semantic details of the memory in terms of what happened visually and leaves them with the overall sense of how they felt at that moment,” Dr. Shah said.
@staceneverlands, who went to see the Eras tour in Cardiff, also wondered why he couldn’t remember the night in a post on X.
Swiftie @ts0670 (left) posted a TikTok video from the concert confessing that they “have no real memories.” A fan @staceneverlands (right), who went to see the Eras tour in Cardiff said that after the concert she felt depressed and had memory loss.
Many fans agreed and said they could only remember “fragments” of the concert attributing it to “emotion.”
Often so much anticipation is put into big events, like a wedding day or, in this case, a Taylor Swift concert, that emotions just take over.
Post-concert amnesia can be compared to the memory loss that people experience after a traumatic event.
“When people experience trauma, sometimes that memory becomes blocked or doesn’t form properly,” Dr Punit Shah, psychologist and professor at the University of Bath, told MailOnline.
“That’s not to say that Taylor’s concerts are traumatic, but the emotion of the situation can mean that people are so immersed in it and so emotional that the details of the event are not as well formed as they might hope,” he added.
“The reason it happens with Taylor Swift concerts is because it’s so hard to get tickets, there’s a real anticipation around it and it heightens your emotions.
‘If you have what should be a memorable event, sometimes people’s emotional response can solidify that memory or weaken it.
“So some people who attend these concerts will find them very memorable and will form what’s called a flash memory, where they remember a lot about what happened in that situation.
“But for some people the emotion of the situation can make the imprint of the memory not remain so marked.”
Another fan @staceneverlands, who saw the Eras tour in Cardiff last week, wrote on memory? ‘
Meanwhile, a fourth Swiftie @ts0670 took to TikTok and confessed that they have “no real memories” of the concert.
In a post that has 54.3k likes, the fan said: ‘Did anyone else who went to the Eras Tour concert faint?
‘Like I don’t remember anything at all, I literally only have my videos. But there are no real memories.
A concert-goer from Liverpool also admitted to suffering “memory loss” after the show.
In a TikTok post, @jenniferh11 said: ‘Okay but why didn’t anyone warn me about the post eras tour? Why do I suffer from memory loss, feel depressed and like I just ran a marathon?
Others have said that the experience simply “felt like a dream.”
@Samcarr posted a video on TikTok and confessed that he didn’t remember the surprise song Taylor Swift played at the London concert.
Others agreed with @Samcarr and commented that “it feels like a dream.” Some even said they just felt “hungover.”
TikTok user @Samcarr said: “Last night I had the craziest dream: I went to the eras tour in London and Taylor performed the surprise song I wanted the most… oh wait.”
Experts have also compared the phenomenon to the loss of self that has been reported in “angry mobs”, even though everyone enjoyed the concert.
“When you are part of a huge crowd you can experience deindividuation,” neuroscientist Dr Dean Burnett, honorary research associate at Cardiff University, told MailOnline.
‘It’s the same thing that happens in an angry crowd. As we are social creatures, when everyone around you feels the same, equally stimulated, just emotional, you get confused, you lose a lot of sense of self,’ he added.
It usually happens in anger, but it can happen when everyone is really elated and happy, he explains.
“You separate yourself from yourself and, as a result, your memories will be blurrier,” Dr. Burnett added.
Experts have also compared the phenomenon to the loss of self that has been reported in “angry mobs”, even though everyone enjoyed the concert.
Dr. Burnett says the familiarity of knowing the songs can also cause blurred memories, that’s because novelty helps memory.
Nowadays, concerts are often visual extravaganzas: music fans are often treated to multiple costume changes, props, strobe lights, special effects, and formation dances.
This, Dr. Burnett says, can cause “sensory overload.” He explains: “It is It’s really hard to remember one thing when about 50 things are happening.
“The brain doesn’t have the ability to take it all in in detail, so it will just be like a vague memory of an emotional experience.”
Will Swifties affected by post-worry amnesia ever recover their lost memories? Maybe not, says Dr. Shah.
If a memory has not been created in the short term, it cannot enter long-term memory. Therefore, it may be lost forever.
And the mind can play tricks on us, he adds: “If someone probes your memory, it’s hard to know if it’s the genuine memory, or if you’re just fabbling and filling in the gaps or making up that memory in general.” ‘
However, Dr. Burnett says you can refresh your memory by listening to a song later.
