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Romana · Advanced Member Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 2939

I can remember sounds, especially music, and sometimes voices, usually saying a particular phrase. My memories of past personal events is always in color but often blurry or fuzzy, as if seen by someone without their glasses. I am especially poor at recalling facial features. I remember scenes and events with reasonable detail and accuracy, but I know the details, I do not see them in the memory. For instance, I might know that the book on the table was my math book, but I cannot read the title on the spine. Memories rarely have emotional content. I may remember how I felt, but I do not re-feel it as I remember.
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Isra · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:56 am Post subject:

Zephr · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:17 pm Post subject:

You know, I was thinking about this again. I think touch is what all my memory of objects is based off of.

Everything in my memory is solid or abstract. If it's solid, I can feel it there even if I never felt it in reality. Anything I have touched I immediately remember in vivid life-like detail. If I haven't touched it, but I have touched something similar it will feel like the similar object. For instance I know what polished wood feels like, so if a see a wooden desk it will feel like that in my memory even if I never touch it. If I have no idea how something should feel it just feels cold, hard and smooth.

The other senses are just overlayed on top of this. They feel very... hollow, empty... constructed... and it's very hard to do more than one sense at a time for anything but the simplest of objects.
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lordofthefood1 · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:29 pm Post subject:

That is a good post Zeph, I'll try to connect it to mine.

No video, but complete instructions of what the video looks like.

When I think about some memories, I know exactly what was where and what color and what path it moved on and who said what and how it sounded and how I felt and how my clothes were

but when I close my eyes, I see skin and blood vessels

I rarely have real dreams, they are usually thoughts
(though I did have one the other day, it was strange)

So I'm struggling, is this abstract or concrete?
The fact that there is no video makes me think abstract
but it isn't really open to interpretation as abstract would be
it is all concrete "exact" instructions

(this is almost EXACTLY why I don't think I'm an S
but I'm ot quite an N, so to speak)
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Annabel_Lee · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:50 pm Post subject:

lordofthefood1 · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:08 pm Post subject:

stupid song in head thing

I don't own an mp3 player because of my amazing ability to play music in my head
the great part is I can isolate tracks and only play them if I want to
("Oh, I feel like listening to drums today")
then I just listen to the drums of my favorite bands

"Ugh, my iPod broke."
"You should just memorize your music; it will make you smarter and you won't have to worry about your stuff breaking or running out of batteries or memory."
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Another · Advanced Member Joined: 09 Oct 2005 Posts: 1574

I hear the past. Dialogue.
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HopscotchAndRocks · Advanced Member Joined: 11 Jan 2009 Posts: 53

Isra · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:43 pm Post subject:

Zephr · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 4:17 am Post subject:

Hmm... foodlord got me thinking about how I remember music.

I said earlier that my memory is either solid or abstract, I think that music is abstract. (Also speech and writing.)

I don't remember sounds or anything like that. I remember emotions and... a general flow of notes... like when I'm singing, I'll change octaves without even realizing it right away. It's not the notes themselves that I remember, but the changes from one note to the next.

For communication, I don't remember the words themselves. Again I remember emotion, and then the overall meaning. If I repeat back what someone says to me I won't use the same words they do. Partly that's intentional. I want to make sure my understanding is correct, but mostly I just remember the meaning, and putting that meaning back into words usually changes it a little.
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lordofthefood1 · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:34 am Post subject:

Kyle · Advanced Member Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 2210

It just happens... Past moments of heightened energy and significance are triggered by events in the present. Full spectrum.

I can re-experience it over and over, thinking about different factors, and feeling the influence of the factors.

Sometimes I'll remember a thought that didn't make sense at the time, but with new puzzle pieces in place, the memory of experiencing the thought comes back, completing another piece of the puzzle. Songwriting too.

The memory is clearer when seeing it from the right perspective.

Annabel_Lee · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:18 pm Post subject:

lordofthefood1 · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:29 pm Post subject:

Hm, this is a thing that I got into with many people (some on the forum and some in person); when you say, "I remember when I was three and I did this," do you really remember it, or do you remember the details that somebody told you (or has your memory been resparked by somebody telling you it happened (or possibly that you just combine your memory and the memory that the other person had (possibly blending or possibly keeping them distinct)))))))))))))))))))))))
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Annabel_Lee · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:43 pm Post subject:

Yeah, actually I commented on something similar in the opening post, but it's amazing how external details (not of our personal narratives) become parts of functional memory. For instance, one of my cousins always insists that he remembers there being large lights around him when he was born. I find it preposterous, but it's something he stands by. We've discussed how part of it may be internalizing the stereotype of lights being around you in an operating room, but apparently he remembers...