Is your memory like this?

[Robert]

Jill Price has the ability to never forget, she remembers every single thing that she has ever seen or done.

I wish some of that could rub off on me. :whatever:

 

[Rocket]

Honestly, I'm grateful to have forgotten many things in my life... wait... what were we talking about?

 

[duhvoodooman]

Geez, my junior year in college is a complete blank to me....

 

[SuperSwede]

Awesome, but I cannot say that I´m jealous (even if my memory COULD be a little bit better according to my wife)

 

[thearabianmage]

It's cool that this lady has the ability to memorize so much but, from the interview, doesn't seem to have any social difficulties.

There is a man named Kim Peek who is autistic, and he has a much more photographic memory - but at what cost?

 

[tyoc]

there is no cost... I think , we think there is a cost

 

[Mr Grumpy]

I thought ALL women never forgot anything at all, ever. Or maybe it was just my ex wife.

 

[Rocket]

there is no cost... I think , we think there is a cost

Here's a cost: Imagine being sexually abused, terrorized, (or similar memorable event,) as a child... and that memory always being just as vivid as the moment it happened, never being able to fade or diminish.

Sometimes lost/faded memories are a requirement for good mental health!

 

[thearabianmage]

Here's a cost: Imagine being sexually abused, terrorized, (or similar memorable event,) as a child... and that memory always being just as vivid as the moment it happened, never being able to fade or diminish.

Sometimes lost/faded memories are a requirement for good mental health!

But in the name of universal equilibrium - imagine your first kiss or the first moment you looked into that special person's eyes and felt that electric rush pulsate from your chest outward - and had the ability to feel that same rush whenever you wanted to for the rest of your life.

Sometimes the mixture of good and bad memories make us the people we are.

 

[oldguy]

Precisely the reason we tend to hold onto good memories, and the bad ones dissipate over time. Also why most photographs are of happy times, rather than sad ones, in the family photo albums.

 

[Rocket]

Sometimes the mixture of good and bad memories make us the people we are.

Who claimed to be "people"?
"We" select or reject "our" memories as a matter of preference!

 

[just strum]

Who claimed to be "people"?
"We" select or reject "our" memories as a matter of preference!

or the strength of the drug.

 

[marnold]

Unfortunately, I've got a photogenic memory.

 

[street music]

If I had a great memory then playing guitar would be a lot easier for sure. I have trouble with peoples names that I saw yesterday.

 

[oldguy]

That's what I was just telling tot, we were looking at the sombrero nebula and I was saying..............
Oops.......wrong thread.........sorry.............

 

[thearabianmage]

Who claimed to be "people"?

"We" select or reject "our" memories as a matter of preference!

To an extent - but to those with traumatic experiences like the ones you mentioned earlier, the selectiveness of their memories are limited. And let me tell you, my 23 y.o. flat-mate has the same nightmare every night about a traumatic experience he had when he was 3. I didn't believe him until I heard him screaming at the top of his lungs at 5AM one morning. Did he choose to keep that memory?

I'm not exactly sure what you meant when you put 'our' into apostrophies other than that our memories are not ours (then whose are they?) or that our 'memories' are part of a 'collective conscience' - a catalogue of information - that all people share at a very base level.

Are one of those correct?

 

[Rocket]

You missed the gag Mage...

 

[thearabianmage]

You missed the gag Mage...

. . . sorry :thwap:

What was the gag?

 

[Rocket]

Ask tot.

 

[thearabianmage]

Ask tot.

Ahh! :AOK:

That would have been one of my oke: moments. . .

 

[sumitomo]

I'm still glad I remember to go to the bathroom! Sumi

 

[Robert]

I'm still glad I remember to go to the bathroom! Sumi

We are too.

 

[tyoc]

Here's a cost: Imagine being sexually abused, terrorized, (or similar memorable event,) as a child... and that memory always being just as vivid as the moment it happened, never being able to fade or diminish.

Sometimes lost/faded memories are a requirement for good mental health!

There is a difference between block and have a good memory, I think one not relate with the other, Im sure this guy can block some things.

Apart, that is not a problem about memory, is a problem about society and people... not really a problem of memory... that bad thing shouldnt not occur in first place.... if you want "mental health" why request it to the abused instead of the ostigator? .




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In the case of pure memory... there is also amnesia... there is a case in the world where a man from some time now (when he has like 40?? and to this day... say he have already some years in amnesia... was a documental the one I see IIRC) only remember his last 30 seconds of life or so... sure he loves to see his wife like if he hasnt watched in a lot of time!!!... even that he have watched she in the last minute... he still think that his son (girl) as just near ended university while she has already a husband and childs....


I think in this 2 extreme cases... is best to life with all your memories good or bad even if they are terrible and horrible and you dont know how to protect yourself (in that time, now and the rest of your life) than forget all and live like that.

But OK OK, I will not say more, I not think is a problem to have good solid memory in any case. I think I dont have good memory but I know that is best than other people.

 

[sumitomo]

Tyoc esta ingles es mejor! muy bien Sumi

 

[tyoc]

haha, sorry if I write crappy English, I have not received a "real curse" (your spanish also is not good, or was that on intend??? hehehe )


Also... for be more puntual here is the dude (or an article about) http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/24/070924fa_fact_sacks

See this at the end... (this is an extreme case of not been able to remember... amnesia, not something you "choose" to forget or best say block).

“Look!” he said. “It’s new!” He couldn’t take his eyes off it.
“It’s the same chocolate,” I said gently.
“No . . . look! It’s changed. It wasn’t like that before . . .” He covered and uncovered the chocolate every couple of seconds, lifting and looking.
“Look! It’s different again! How do they do it?”

 

[Kazz]

ha....he said Sumi's Spanish sucks LMAO reminds me of that scene in Tombstone where Ringo tells the other cowboy...."That's not what he said, you ignorant wretch. Your Spanish is worse than your English."

Later when Curly Bill asks Johnny what he meant.....

"Hey Johnny, what did that Mexican mean by a sick horse is going to get us?
Ringo says "He was quoting the Bible, Revelations. Behold the pale horse. The man who sat on him was Death...and Hell followed with him."

 

[sumitomo]

[(your spanish also is not good, or was that on intend??? hehehe )

Intento Sumi:rockon:

 

[tyoc]

If you want, we can talk in spanish , sure via msg for not "polute" the threads ... if you want for practice (I practice each time I write something in a forum... that is also why I join forums ... and also time to time see vidcast, podcast and so on, for practice a little more listening, read books, etc). Anyone who want to talk in spanish is free to PM, hehe.