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re: Who can remember their entire life?

Posted on 3/21/23 at 10:25 am to
Posted by Masterag
'Round Dallas
Member since Sep 2014
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Posted on 3/21/23 at 10:25 am to
I can remember things in kinder that happened in detail, like going to chapel and singing songs, the smell of the room and girls I thought were cute. Teaching myself how to ride a bike on the playground. Games we had in centers, etc.

Going back to before three I can’t remember as much.
Posted by GeauxTigerTM
Member since Sep 2006
30596 posts
Posted on 3/21/23 at 10:26 am to
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I say this, meanwhile I will walk downstairs to get something, and once I get there, I completely forget what I'm even doing there.


I think that's some weird phenomenon unto itself. Like when you get up to go get something you need from another room, and when you walk through the doorway you suddenly forget what you were going to get. there's something about passing through the door that makes your brain think it needs to reboot for what's coming...or something.

I forget...
Posted by LSUtoBOOT
Member since Aug 2012
13886 posts
Posted on 3/21/23 at 10:26 am to
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How old are you? That is a lot easier at 20 than at 60.


The opposite for me now that I’ve gotten older, but last week is a bit foggy.
Posted by supatigah
CEO of the Keith Hernandez Fan Club
Member since Mar 2004
88183 posts
Posted on 3/21/23 at 10:29 am to
Doug Collins has a remarkable memory


over a thirteen year stretch from 2001 to 2013, I was involved with either coaching or reffing in well over 1000 basketball games and I can barely remember a dozen of them. Almost all of the ones I remember were big losses. Doug Collins can reference specific moments in games he played in from the 60s and 70s. Unreal


They say memories are actually you remembering the last time you remembered something, which is why they fade
Posted by LSU Grad Alabama Fan
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Member since Nov 2019
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Posted on 3/21/23 at 10:29 am to
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One example. I can walk into my old first grade classroom and show you exactly where I sat and who sat around me.



I remember us having a long table in the back of the class for reading. The teacher divided the class into 3 groups. The advanced, average, and below average. I remember being at the advanced reading table. I used to whip my dick out under the table as a rush. Then during recess I would go up the sliding pole backwards because it felt good on the wiener.
This post was edited on 3/21/23 at 10:31 am
Posted by CHEDBALLZ
South Central LA
Member since Dec 2009
22344 posts
Posted on 3/21/23 at 10:31 am to
I have a Buddy like that, has a damn near photographic memory of shite we did in HS and even grade school. He remembers all his teachers, who was in class with him where they sat, what songs they played in band..... I remember that I was in band, but that's about it.
Posted by DarthRebel
Tier Five is Alive
Member since Feb 2013
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Posted on 3/21/23 at 10:31 am to
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When you look back, that gets Nerfed into usually a more palatable happy memory...which is why you go again.


Spot on. You can't remember your life exactly how it happened and it is dumb to think you can.

Your mind will always play tricks on you
Posted by Thecoz
Member since Dec 2018
2941 posts
Posted on 3/21/23 at 10:32 am to
Unfortunately I can only remember about 9 beers into half of my life…
Posted by GrizzlyAlloy
Member since Aug 2020
2029 posts
Posted on 3/21/23 at 10:32 am to
Eat some mushrooms and you'll be surprised how much comes back to you.
Posted by upgrade
Member since Jul 2011
13500 posts
Posted on 3/21/23 at 10:32 am to
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Like hearing a song for the first time, and remembering when it was, in what vehicle I was in, who was with me, where we were on the road,


There are songs that, when I hear them, bring me back to certain times. It’s usually not the first time I remember hearing the song, nor is it an important event in time. Just some random time. It’s kind of weird.
Posted by Boudreaux35
BR
Member since Sep 2007
22147 posts
Posted on 3/21/23 at 10:37 am to
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Marilu Henner can remember every detail of her life.


I bet there are more than a few details that would be interesting to hear!
Posted by CoyoteSong
Colorado
Member since Aug 2021
2603 posts
Posted on 3/21/23 at 10:38 am to
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I cannot. That’s impressive. It sounds a little like some of the impressive memorization of some autists that I have seen. (And I don’t intend that as any sort of jab)


I really wish my memory was this good in the academic settings. I have a bachelor’s and master’s degree but I had to work hard to get it.

I am in my upper 30’s and recall daily things my kids use to say and do when they were little. It drives my wife nuts because she can’t remember half the stories I tell her.

Posted by blueridgeTiger
Granbury, TX
Member since Jun 2004
21034 posts
Posted on 3/21/23 at 10:48 am to
I was in a relationship with a woman whose adult son claimed he could remember everything from the time he was about a month old. (My SO was bat-shite crazy and her son seems to have inherited those traits).
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
100767 posts
Posted on 3/21/23 at 10:56 am to
I remember being in daycare and looking up and seeing an airplane. The only time I was ever in daycare was when I was about 18 months to two years old. I start to have coherent memories from about kindergarten age on. I remember most of my teachers from elementary school. I used to remember a lot more but it does start to fade eventually. At one time I knew the names of everybody in my fraternity pledge class, and all the shite they made us memorize. I don't any more.
This post was edited on 3/21/23 at 10:59 am
Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt
Here
Member since Jan 2011
67273 posts
Posted on 3/21/23 at 11:02 am to
I remember some certain events in good detail from early in life (3 years old or so) but it's spotty. There's details about yesterday I couldn't recall. Brain is too clogged up with work.
Posted by Richard Grayson
Bestbank
Member since Sep 2022
2149 posts
Posted on 3/21/23 at 11:04 am to
I don’t remember much before 2005 honestly. It’s funny in a sad kind of way when I talk to people who reminisce about their childhoods. Mine is missing from my memory. It’s just an empty space I can’t access. Katrina really wrecked my mind. It fundamentally changed how I view and interact with the world. And I spent the next decade fighting sobriety with everything in me so what I do remember from 2005-2015 is fuzzy at best.

I regret a lot of it but I can’t go back and change it. I can only learn from it and do better moving forward.
This post was edited on 3/21/23 at 11:08 am
Posted by PappaSwolio
tGeneral’s Army
Member since Sep 2022
901 posts
Posted on 3/21/23 at 11:11 am to
I remember a handful of things that happened each year of grade school. I remember getting in line for field day in kindergarten, I remember the mats we used to take naps on in pre-k and certain events that happened.

Seems like I can remember more things that stood out from the time I was 4-14 than things that happened from say 18-28. I’m guessing maybe because the things that happen when you are young help mold you into who you are. Less significant things when you get older, not to mention the days become more and more the same going into the same job every day
Posted by r0cky1
Member since Oct 2020
3782 posts
Posted on 3/21/23 at 11:14 am to
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impressive memorization of some autists that I have seen. (And I don’t intend that as any sort of jab)



Well this board is full of them so
Posted by Keys Open Doors
In hiding with Tupac & XXXTentacion
Member since Dec 2008
32360 posts
Posted on 3/21/23 at 11:16 am to
I don’t have that type of visual memory. However, I can probably name my entire first grade class (first name and last name) and most of my teachers from elementary school.

My high school sent us a post card for a high school reunion of our graduating class, and I could remember and name everyone on the postcard (about 100 people), most of whom I haven’t seen since that day, 20 years ago.

And I can remember lyrics to songs I haven’t heard in years when they come up on the radio, a bar, a playlist, etc. I won’t remember the whole song, but certain lyrics almost feel like a muscle memory.
Posted by poppa1254
Moody, AL
Member since Jan 2019
477 posts
Posted on 3/21/23 at 11:24 am to
I remember my dad taking me on a picnic and my mom taking me home.
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