Mindful · 56-60, F
No I cannot remember exactly what I said.😓 I try to live in the moment. I remember that. But I have a lot of trouble remembering exactly what I said 😞 I might completely forget what I said. Especially if I'm upset about something. I do know I can regret what I said and so I'd better apologize asap so that I don't forget to apologize when something I said doesn't feel right.
zonavar68 · 56-60, M
Nope. Most people do not recall with reliable short-term memory unless something happens that makes the memory 'data' get stored more deeply.
I do not remember when I was born (it's unlikely any human can consciously remember being born), and have little memories of my first 30 yrs apart from significant happenings. But I wonder if all that really does get stored or if our brains use a 'block refresh' type of system where, over time, some information is either erased or written over with new information.
I do not remember when I was born (it's unlikely any human can consciously remember being born), and have little memories of my first 30 yrs apart from significant happenings. But I wonder if all that really does get stored or if our brains use a 'block refresh' type of system where, over time, some information is either erased or written over with new information.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@zonavar68 Interesting question. Some memories do seem to be stored at deeper levels, at least partially, but we do slowly lose knowledge we no longer need. For example, what we had to know at work, but have left behind by a change of work or by retirement.
At shallower, day-to-day levels we must replace a lot of things with new information.
I think we remember a lot of ordinary information in a sort of layered structure. I am not a neuroscientist so I have no idea how it might work, or even if I am right, but I found this by a simple experiment on myself:
I let myself relax and not think about anything then "snap" recalled a familiar place - my past home, or the premises of a club to which I belong. Afert my mental visit to the place I thought about how I had recalled it. It seemed the mental layout map - the route from front door to kitchen, say - popped up almost immediately. The rooms' details then appear more slowly, or even needed some conscious effort, as if on a deeper layer.
Then there is "muscle memory" we all use in our daily lives without even thinking about it - in driving a car, for example. How is that kept?
I do know we cannot compare animal memory with computers, and ours is far more powerful in some respects than a computer depsite the machine's far faster calculating speed, but I do wonder how it works.
At shallower, day-to-day levels we must replace a lot of things with new information.
I think we remember a lot of ordinary information in a sort of layered structure. I am not a neuroscientist so I have no idea how it might work, or even if I am right, but I found this by a simple experiment on myself:
I let myself relax and not think about anything then "snap" recalled a familiar place - my past home, or the premises of a club to which I belong. Afert my mental visit to the place I thought about how I had recalled it. It seemed the mental layout map - the route from front door to kitchen, say - popped up almost immediately. The rooms' details then appear more slowly, or even needed some conscious effort, as if on a deeper layer.
Then there is "muscle memory" we all use in our daily lives without even thinking about it - in driving a car, for example. How is that kept?
I do know we cannot compare animal memory with computers, and ours is far more powerful in some respects than a computer depsite the machine's far faster calculating speed, but I do wonder how it works.
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Baybreeze · 41-45, F
I can remember well what I said the last few weeks , even couple months. But my sister will sometimes bring up something I said several years ago and I have zero memory of it lol. She'll be like, Remember you said ....blah blah? Im like, no 😂😬
ArishMell · 70-79, M
No. I don't memorise conversations, only the subject of the conversations and with whom, when necessary. (Or even not necessary!)