Ahhh, memories

[Kyronea]

Who the hell are any of you people? What's this forum about? Why am I posting here?

What the crap is the internet, anyway?

[Greed and Death]

Who the hell are any of you people? What's this forum about? Why am I posting here?

What the crap is the internet, anyway?

hey zug I just invent Fire.

[Maurepas]

Who the hell are any of you people? What's this forum about? Why am I posting here?

What the crap is the internet, anyway?

hey zug I just invent Fire.

What happen if put water on it?

[Jordaxia]

I don't remember a large portion of my life before I was 18 (and I'm 22 now) - and yet some things I remember with all but absolute clarity. Some things I only just remembered relatively recently that happened during that time.

[Greed and Death]

Who the hell are any of you people? What's this forum about? Why am I posting here?

What the crap is the internet, anyway?

hey zug I just invent Fire.

What happen if put water on it?

ARGGG he broke the fire.


Zug we must kill this Grug !!!

[Magechill-Izeckistan]

No. You're a freak.

I have a pretty clear memory of most of my life. Except birthdays. I can never remember what happened on my birthdays.

I remember my tenth birthday explicitly well. My little brother kicked me in the groin.

[Greed and Death]

No. You're a freak.

I have a pretty clear memory of most of my life. Except birthdays. I can never remember what happened on my birthdays.

I remember my tenth birthday explicitly well. My little brother kicked me in the groin.

I remember i gave him steal toes for a present.

[Cameroi]

nope. not periods in my life. but people. who remember me, from i know not where, nor how nor when. most being from one or more of my hobby interests. sometimes they turn out to be relatives or one time closer acquaintances. i'm always afraid i might be offending them by not remembering who they are, but i just have a really rotten memory for people.

[Magechill-Izeckistan]

No. You're a freak.

I have a pretty clear memory of most of my life. Except birthdays. I can never remember what happened on my birthdays.

I remember my tenth birthday explicitly well. My little brother kicked me in the groin.

I remember i gave him steal toes for a present.

My ass you did. I put a hermit crab on 'im while he was sleeping.

[Ifreann]

There are a few periods of college and grad school I can't really recall. This however may be a result of the tremendous amount of drugs I was taking at the time.


This however may be a result of the tremendous amount of drugs I was taking at the time.

So what you're saying is, you DID date hookers, but then forgot. I knew it!

I think his bank account balance would tell him all about it if he did.

[Anti-Social Darwinism]

I have a Reader's Digest condensed version memory of my life. I remember important things, like getting married, having kids, getting divorced - but the day to day stuff sort of gets mashed together into an amorphous memory blob.

[Wilgrove]

I think you need to stop drinking so much buddy. That's why you're having memory lapse.

[Minnas]

Or more specifically, the lack of them. Do you all have periods of your life you can't remember, but you feel you should? I have large periods of life where I can't remember actually doing anything, and I can't remember images of what happened, but I have sort of a summary description of the events in question. So, I can remember what happened, but I can't remember it happening, per se.

I'll give you an example.

When I was in middle school, I know I had a teacher who was a complete and total bitch, and I remember her name. I have a short summary of offenses that she committed against me in memory - in list form. However, I don't remember the offenses actually occurring, I can't picture them, and I don't remember what she looked like, and I don't even remember what the classroom looked like. I just have a summary list.

I have many many more examples, but that's just one that's relatively neutral and comes to mind.

Is this normal? Does it happen to anyone else?

You're sorry drunk.

[German Nightmare]

There's a lot that's simply buried in my mind. Yet ever once in a while something like a smell, song, feeling, name, occasion, place triggers a memory and they come back.

[German Nightmare]

I have a Reader's Digest condensed version memory of my life. I remember important things, like getting married, having kids, getting divorced - but the day to day stuff sort of gets mashed together into an amorphous memory blob.

I believe that's how our brains are supposed to work.

Just imagine you could remember every single word of every single conversation you've ever had. That'd drive you crazy!

[Chetssaland]

I remember lots of little things from my early days, but I can't remember things people told me to do 5 minutes ago. I forget to finish my homework sometimes, but remember my 2nd grade birthday at the tractor place where my dad used to work and we raced down a sandy hill and got to ride in a truck, and me nad Austin traded our toy cars...

See?

[Pure Metal]

Or more specifically, the lack of them. Do you all have periods of your life you can't remember, but you feel you should? I have large periods of life where I can't remember actually doing anything, and I can't remember images of what happened, but I have sort of a summary description of the events in question. So, I can remember what happened, but I can't remember it happening, per se.

I'll give you an example.

When I was in middle school, I know I had a teacher who was a complete and total bitch, and I remember her name. I have a short summary of offenses that she committed against me in memory - in list form. However, I don't remember the offenses actually occurring, I can't picture them, and I don't remember what she looked like, and I don't even remember what the classroom looked like. I just have a summary list.

I have many many more examples, but that's just one that's relatively neutral and comes to mind.

Is this normal? Does it happen to anyone else?

yes, certainly. quite large parts of my life... in fact, most of my childhood up to the age of about 13, probably. i remember that things happened, i remember what happened, but i can barely remember any details other than that which other people have since told ("reminded") me, or photos/videos.

eg. i know that i got cap-guns for christmas when i was 11. we went to the beach on boxing day to play with them, and my dad and i had a great time playing with them. its a happy memory... except that i can't remember it. i know that it happened, but all i have to go on is what my parents have said since, and the video they took. in comparison, i remember a lot of other (important or happy/sad) things in much more detail, usually like a bunch of photos, or stills from a movie, can remember what people said (ish), imagine the the place in 3D in my head, remember what it smelled like, remember emotions felt at the time, etc, etc

its quite often pretty disturbing, and some of it i wish i could remember (like that one)

i also can't remember much of my 2 years at uni, though that's for different reasons



edit: sometimes i worry that in another 10-15 years, i won't be able to remember now either.

[Grave_n_idle]

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That's a really disturbing avatar.

And that's coming from me!

[Pure Metal]

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That's a really disturbing avatar.

And that's coming from me!

thank you, i was hoping it would freak someone out
i ROFL'ed my little cotton socks off at the joke its screencapped from http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... Episode_3/

[Pure Metal]

this guy has a really disturbing avatar. it will haunt me in my dreams tonight

we should have a contest

[The Requiem of Shadow]

Or more specifically, the lack of them. Do you all have periods of your life you can't remember, but you feel you should? I have large periods of life where I can't remember actually doing anything, and I can't remember images of what happened, but I have sort of a summary description of the events in question. So, I can remember what happened, but I can't remember it happening, per se.

Same here. Mine's more short term.

[Grave_n_idle]

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That's a really disturbing avatar.

And that's coming from me!

thank you, i was hoping it would freak someone out
i ROFL'ed my little cotton socks off at the joke its screencapped from http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... Episode_3/

Boo hiss! Hate you, BBC, and your not-letting-English-people-that-live-in-America see stuff.

I demand special exemptions, dammit.

[Pure Metal]

Boo hiss! Hate you, BBC, and your not-letting-English-people-that-live-in-America see stuff.

I demand special exemptions, dammit.

oh auntie beeb

but yay for youtube! (i can't believe i just found this) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0dfASIk9Dw

[Domminus]

I think the brain has a tendency to just categorize things into list when the pertinent memory is not really useful anymore. Does it really matter what your middle school teacher looked like? Does it matter what classroom you were in? Does it matter remembering the pictures on the walls during whatever happened?

Probably not. However, I think your mind still wants to keep a working memory file, so it compresses the data into "just the facts", so to speak.

That's my hypothesis.

[Grave_n_idle]

Boo hiss! Hate you, BBC, and your not-letting-English-people-that-live-in-America see stuff.

I demand special exemptions, dammit.

oh auntie beeb

but yay for youtube! (i can't believe i just found this) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0dfASIk9Dw

Awesome. *Goes to check it out*