• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    “Well I read in a book that I was there. I can’t actually remember more than a few hundred years back.”

    Ashildr from Doctor Who was brilliant.

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      6 days ago

      I’m wondering now, how our little brains would adapt to living like for thousands of years. Would we really start forgetting things that are waaaay back?

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        I’ve already forgotten most of my childhood and I’m only around 30. So I’d assume, yes.

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            Nah, it’s just shitty memory. I have had quite the happy childhood, actually.

            I don’t find myself reminiscing a lot and in the rare cases I do, there are quite some gaps. Even in more recent times. If I really try to dig, maybe it comes back, but I assume it’s “use it or lose it”.

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              Yeah, I have shitty memory too… Sometimes my friends talk about something we did 15-20 years ago and half the time it unlocks a memory, the other half I can’t recall at all

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                i don’t fucking remember most of yesterday, my brain is just extremely judicious about what it retains and catalogues.
                on the other hand i can regale you about physics and how railways work and stuff like that…

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                Yeah, that’s it normal, hence why they remember and you don’t dude… you don’t think that’s not strange? That multiple friends recall events easily and you don’t…?

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                  Different people remember different things? It’s really not that complicated. What one brain decides is worth holding onto might not be worth it to another.

                  Hell, even what we do remember is half hallucinated to fill in the gaps (probably not the right word for it, but you get the idea)

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              That still ain’t normal dude. You’re supposed to be able to recall memories from any point of your life…

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                You actually can’t. Human memory is really quite terrible. Most of your older memories are likely distorted by other people telling you about them, or even just the natural decay that occurs whenever you recall a memory.

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                  That is just factually incorrect And what people lie to themselves to make them feel better. Humans are great at recollection, why would you claim otherwise…?

                  The age 0-3 is the only time you should have zero recollection, anything else is something you should talk to neurologist or psychologist about, but sure lie to make yourself feel better I guess…?

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                    There’s a common misconception that trauma is the main cause of childhood amnesia. A logical assumption but is completely unfounded.

                    Fun quote from that article, you absolute scholar

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                So, what’s your point? Other people might have a lot more boring childhood anecdotes to tell, but it’s not like I’m suffering in any kind. I still remember people or useful skills - the stuff I do use.

                As an added benefit of growing up quite poor, I probably just had less unique experiences I actually could recall. Like, I’ve been on three travel vacations overall. Kinda like those COVID years blurred together for most people.

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            It wasnt specified what was meant by childhood. The further back you go the less you remember. I remember a lot more about 6-10 grade than 1-6 grade.

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              You should still be able to recall specific events at all portions of your life, it’s abnormal not to, but you can defend it and ignore potentially life limiting issues if you want.

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                  You realize normal is somewhere in the middle…? Between remembering nothing and everything…?

                  I never said everything, and remembering nothing isn’t normal.

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                    But the person didn’t say he remembered nothing. He said half the time he didn’t remember what friends talked about. Another person said they were fuzzy on their childhood.

                    You told both that wasn’t normal and suggested childhood trama. Being slightly to one side of a normal distribution curve doesn’t mean anything.

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            I don’t t entirely know why your getting down voted, because I tend to agree. I entirely remember my childhood. My wife can’t remember ever existing before about 9 years old except in very few extremely specific cases. We don’t think anything terrible happened, but neither of us really know. I kinda think it’s the entire reason she’s avoided therapy, dont want to unlock Pandora’s Box.

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        You would forget most everything. Even big events would become fuzzy. Do you remember what you had for lunch on this date when you were 5?

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        Yes and no, probably. You will remember important bits and will reconstruct/imagine other things just like you do now. Even with our short lifes not all the things you “remember” actually happened.