About some project I did 30 years back, I'm there! About breakfast this morning, not so much???
Something I am improving at and cultivating.
I was going to post somethin...
Is this in any way news?
Researchers find evidence that neural systems actively remove memories, which suggests that forgetting may be the default mode of the brain.
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And if that doesn’t work, there is always alcohol.
That’s what I tell my wife. When she wants to know why I don’t remember something I tell her I’ve only got room in the brain for so much stuff and I can’t concentrate on trivial matters.
I would say the brain has a default mode, and everyone is a bit different. Each of us can optimize and modify the operating system to suit what each person does, for good or bad. Education is brain training no matter the subject. That’s my non proffesional take anyway.
I had completely forgotten an event in my life that occurred roughly 30 year before, until a friend asked me if I remembered it. Then suddenly, I recalled the the entire event.
So, clearly, it was not completely erased from memory.
Everyone has photographic memory; most don’t have film.
Trying to make us read the article by proposing an apparent contradiction in the headline only makes me mad, it does not make me want to read the article.
Only Sheldon Cooper can remember everything. Everyone else remembers less than 100%. Otherwise it would be useless information.
On the other hand, why do I remember phone numbers that I had decades ago and which no longer function, but don’t rembember my home land line number?
A few years ago, a group of my colleagues were having lunch one day. Obviously triggered by the conversation we were having, one of our young men, with a very serious look on his face, looked at me and said, “Somebody told me something the other day . . . and I can’t remember who it was or what it was about.”
“I am not surprised.”, I replied.
I remember studies that said, in fact, our brain has recorded our whole lives, it’s just we normally can’t retrieve the memories. I saw films in college where during brain surgery the doctor would electrically stimulate the surface of the brain and the patient (who is awake during the procedure) would be taken back to childhood riding a trike on the sidewalk in front of his house. So according to this, our whole lives are in there, but beyond our grasp.
Yeah!
Whatever ya do DON’T Fergit THIS!
Was reading this the other day in one of Ken Wapnick books....explains why me memory is so great.
GyG@PlanetWTF?
Wife claims I recall $h!t that never happened!
Typically, I remember enough about subjects and events to maintain a firm opinion. When challenged I often have to look up the details to give specific answers. This is generally easy and quick with our electronic devices and access to the internet. This has evolved over the years.
If these fools ever figure out that the brain has nothing to do with it we’ll be in real trouble.
Interesting. Along with complete memory blackouts, Alzheimer’s also carries the opposite symptom. Everything looks familiar. Every morning my mother thinks she has seen that morning’s paper before. Every new episode of a show, including a live show or live sports, she thinks she’s seen it already. We drive down an unfamiliar street, she sees a woman walking a dog and says she saw that woman walking the same dog “the last time we were here.”
I find it all very very sad. Trying to live with a broken brain.
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Interesting article and site. Thanks for posting.
And this is the reason why it’s so important to have regular and satisfying sexual releases with one's spouse..… for a period of time after orgasm, the body and mind can go into a near complete state of peace, harmony and rest where nothing matters. And from that state where all can be forgotten, creativity and a sense of renewal and purpose can flourish and sustain until it is needed again.
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