re: Who can remember their entire life?

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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.

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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...

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

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.

Unfortunately I can only remember about 9 beers into half of my life…

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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,

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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.

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Marilu Henner can remember every detail of her life.

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I bet there are more than a few details that would be interesting to hear!

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).

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.

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.