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re: Who can remember their entire life?
Posted on 3/21/23 at 11:27 am to CoyoteSong
Posted on 3/21/23 at 11:27 am to CoyoteSong
I barely remember what I ate for breakfast this morning. You expect me to remember everything going on in my life from like 1 year old to now? 
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Posted on 3/21/23 at 11:44 am to A Menace to Sobriety
I don’t know why but remembering lunch or dinner is often more challenging than remembering stuff from a year ago, at least for me.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 11:46 am to GrizzlyAlloy
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Eat some mushrooms and you'll be surprised how much comes back to you.
Bought a can at the grocery store and tried, nothing. Was so disappointed. What a waste of $1.25.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 11:49 am to CoyoteSong
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I can remember what I was thinking when I was taking tests or what I was thinking about when the teacher was talking or questions I got wrong on tests.
And yet you got the answers on the test wrong..
Posted on 3/21/23 at 11:50 am to CoyoteSong
I have a hard time with this. There's just a handful of moments I can recall as a young child, which is sad because my father died when I was 7 and there are just a few memories I have of him, even though we were close.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 11:52 am to S
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I can think back to about 3-4 years old
I have a vivid memory of when I was two years old walking down a long walkway to the front door of an apartment. My parents were building a house and we lived in an apartment for a few months. I was probably 9 or 10 and we were riding down the road and passed by the apartment building. I said "Hey, that's the apartment we lived in when I was little. Ours was at the end on the corner." My dad literally almost jumped out of his skin because I couldn't have been more than 2-1/2 because I remember it was cold and wearing a jacket that night but they moved out around Valentine's Day and my birthday is in July.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 11:57 am to fallguy_1978
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I could probably only name about 7-8 teachers that I had from kindergarten through college.
I can't name a single college professor I had but could probably come up with 80% of elementary-high school teachers. Can only remember the names of 2 or 3 girls I dated before I met my wife (typically only dated for a couple of months at the mosts).
Posted on 3/21/23 at 12:04 pm to CoyoteSong
When I was 14, my brother didn’t realize he held my head under water too long at the pool. Those 14 years flashed before my eyes in a split second. Guess I drowned but it wasn’t my time
Posted on 3/21/23 at 12:07 pm to chryso
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How old are you? That is a lot easier at 20 than at 60.
Yep, I used to be able to recall a ton of info freely m
My youth but the older
And further away you get from
Events they tend to fade away
Posted on 3/21/23 at 12:10 pm to CoyoteSong
Forgetting is an important part of life.
Mental health, one example, depends on it.
Women’s child birth, horrific accidents, loss of loved ones, hurtful moments in life, etc.
If you can remember your entire life, you are probably on Prozac (or should be).
Remember this.
Mental health, one example, depends on it.
Women’s child birth, horrific accidents, loss of loved ones, hurtful moments in life, etc.
If you can remember your entire life, you are probably on Prozac (or should be).
Remember this.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 12:12 pm to CoyoteSong
"Memory is not a a description of the objective past. Memory is the past's guide to the future."
- Jordan B. Peterson
- Jordan B. Peterson
Posted on 3/21/23 at 1:02 pm to Turf Taint
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Forgetting is an important part of life. Mental health, one example, depends on it. Women’s child birth, horrific accidents, loss of loved ones, hurtful moments in life, etc. If you can remember your entire life, you are probably on Prozac (or should be).
I use to do this. Drive to work in the AM and think about all the ways I have been wronged in the past and being pissed off before the day even begins. But I quit doing this a long time ago. Like changing the channel on a Tv. I immediately choose not to think about it and think about something else. Kind of like moving on when your favorite team loses and you watched every second of the game and remember everything.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 1:20 pm to CoyoteSong
I can remember ridiculously way back in my life. I didn't think it was that big a deal, but the more people I talk to, it seems to be sort of unusual.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 2:13 pm to DarthRebel
I was about to say this… our memories are rarely how they actually happened. Details are often changed and some events entirely never happened. It’s wild to think about sometimes, have I really lived a certain life or is it my minds way of blocking out trauma.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 2:18 pm to LSUPERMAN
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Marilu Henner can remember every detail of her life.
I remember that 60 minutes. At the time they had found about 8 people like that. (actually 10)
episode on memory from 60 Minutes Australia
Posted on 3/21/23 at 2:36 pm to CoyoteSong
My memory freaks people out at times, I remember pretty much everything.
Part of the reason I’m so miserable and I can’t let things go.
Part of the reason I’m so miserable and I can’t let things go.
This post was edited on 3/21/23 at 2:37 pm
Posted on 3/21/23 at 2:37 pm to Cheese Grits
quote:Cheese Grits perhaps?
I am trying to remember what I had for breakfast.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 3:17 pm to CoyoteSong
only back to age 4. a few incidents.
from 7 on I can recall more but no word for word conversations like you.
I don't think I ever could recall whole conversations.
you could have been the guy who hears the Iliad once and recites it to a Greek city in Sicily.
I got through trig by memorizing. I didn't know how trig worked until my daughter was in high school and I read a tutorial on the Purdue website.
from 7 on I can recall more but no word for word conversations like you.
I don't think I ever could recall whole conversations.
you could have been the guy who hears the Iliad once and recites it to a Greek city in Sicily.
I got through trig by memorizing. I didn't know how trig worked until my daughter was in high school and I read a tutorial on the Purdue website.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 3:45 pm to CoyoteSong
Way too much partying from age 18-28. That era is a haze of good memories
Posted on 3/21/23 at 3:49 pm to CoyoteSong
Confabulation.
Having said that, if you show me a picture of myself in college, I can remember exactly what alcoholic drinks I had to drink that night at the bar.
Having said that, if you show me a picture of myself in college, I can remember exactly what alcoholic drinks I had to drink that night at the bar.
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