Posted on 11/03/2018 4:41:13 PM PDT by EveningStar
It would really, really suck.
I bought some of that. I keep forgetting to take it.
I was a romantic that year too.
I told the lady who is now my wife that my orders had come in and I would be leaving for Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany followed by Aberdeen Proving Ground. If she wanted to come with we would have to be married first.
"...it would really, really suck..."
I don't know about the average person but there are many things I am happy not to remember.
Yeah, people never think about the negatives to such things.
I remember conversations I had with my family starting at the age of three. I was fully conscious at that time and remember details that completely freaked my parents out. I remember conversations I had with childhood friends but I really tried to not expose that part of me because it really is freaky. My memory is just crazy clear. I don’t have the full photographic memory that these other people have but I’d say I probably remember about 75% of my entire life.
I have a minor version of this condition, I believe.
My memory is not that complete, but I recall more details of the past than most people would. However, it comes nowhere near recalling every detail of some past day forty or fifty years ago. So I find it hard to visualize that.
This active memory feature got turned on by a chance decision that my parents made to set me up with a weather station in high school. Before that, I couldn’t say that my recall was any greater than the average person’s. After I started, the subject interested me enough to implant a near total recall of both the weather events and the personal events related to family and school. Once I stopped reading the weather instruments and writing down the results, this faded out and there are subsequent years that are almost total blanks to me now.
So I have this condition as a sort of intermediate (ages 15 to 22) not quite total recall, with more normal recall on either side of that, although I think the activation of memory never quite turned off completely, I still probably recall more than the average person would of events of each year.
This might make my brain an interesting study for the Alzheimer research crowd, as I have a sort of higher functioning mirror image of the Alzheimer condition where recent memory goes first. I am not anywhere near that condition at age 70 here, but my rather unusual adolescent memory jog might give some clues, especially if I could correlate it with other aspects.
I would hate to be saddled with that absolute total recall though, can’t imagine how that might impair your daily functioning or perhaps it assists with it? You would likely be wandering around like a zombie trying to shake off all those memories.
A more mundane example of forced total recall might be something like the Kennedy assassination, if you’re my age, you will probably recall a lot of details of that day that you can’t duplicate for any other day back around then. That’s just before I started my weather station so it is also a starting point for the near total recall.
There are many things in my life that I do not remember.
I’d like to remember a great many of those.
And others are perhaps best left forgotten. ;-)
Sounds more like a curse. And, some things I certainly do not want to remember.
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Ditto.
Gekko Balboa? Yeah, he was a good fighter! What were we talking about?
If the Marines wanted you married, they would issue you a wife. Or so I’ve heard.
Guess we should count our blessings for whatever this thread was all bout.
What thread?
Not all that rare ... My EX remembered EVERYTHING I have ever Said, Done, Thought of Doing, My Bad Clothing Choices, Every Time I was Late, Everything she was disappointed with Anything I did... and she could Word For Word recite any excuse that I could mutter in my defense.
I really miss her
I was there until age 20.
I can still remember vividly history lectures from my sophomore year of college.
Self medication cured that...
Not that was a great thing.
This is the mistake everyone makes; it's not an ability, it's a diagnosis. I even heard Rush refer to Ted Cruz as having an eidetic memory.
Actually, only children suffer from this and the report of an eidetic memory is delivered to the parents of an afflicted child with the exuberance reserved for terminal cancer or the like: "We're sorry Mrs. Jones to report your poor child has an eidetic memory." The victim, always a child, is destined to a miserable life ending in dementia by adolescence since the inevitable point will be reached where they will be unable to function at all as the entirety of their brain will be occupied by useless memories.
There are a lot of mistakes I would actually enjoy reliving. You’re only young once. This ability is a gift.
I lost 10 days once when I was in a coma.
My wife remembers everything I’ve done wrong in the last 45 years and we’ve only known each other for 20.
LOL!!!
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