Published on 12, July, 2020
I've not Googlerated this so I'm starting from quite a low point of knowledge.
I know that we can tend to have very good memory in certain areas and I know about the autistic savant.
So, what do you know about how our memories work and why?
Mainly though, what is your memory like?
What do you remember and what do you not so well?
I have an autistic friend and he can quote back to me the day of the week, date and year a lot of events happened - small events, things like the day we went on a day trip somewhere over the whole of his life - he's 63.
I don't have that kind of gift but I have realised in recent times that my memory is quite unusual.
I do remember being in the pram and then the pushchair.
However, what I remember really well is places, events in my life and people and the things that people say, going back all 6 decades.
I can mentally walk through every room of the places I've lived in during my life and even where the furniture is.
How about you?
I have an amazing memory. I can remember people, places, everything really. Sometimes I can remember smells as well. I can remember traumatic things really well.
Sometimes my memory feels like a special gift and other times it's more like a curse.
I have a rather odd experience every time I have a cold. Basically it’s like I lay down a memory of my body/mind state. It’s not a feeling, or smell, or a sound it’s like everything mixes together to make something else.
But the result of this is that when I have a cold I get very vivid recall of all the other times I’ve had a cold, all the way back to childhood.
I’ve tried explaining this to people before but never found anyone with a similar experience.
Amerantin (former member) said:But the result of this is that when I have a cold I get very vivid recall of all the other times I’ve had a cold, all the way back to childhood.
So, the new cold acts like a trigger to memories of past ones perhaps?
Interesting.
I don't believe I share this.