Do you think that everything that you have ever perceived in your life is stored somewhere in your brain as a memory even if for some reason you can’t tap into it all consciously?
If anyone has a good article on it that would be cool too. Especially scientific ones
certain things will trigger memories…I find music takes me to memories I thought were gone…sometimes dreams will reveal memories…for me anyways…sorry I don’t have anything else.
Yeah same for me, songs or places can trigger memories… during my psychosis a lot of things I did not remember/suppressed memories came back. It was a lot to go through.
I find it amazing how our brain works, sometimes i forget a name and than it comes to me and i memories it. Like wordcrosspuzzles. I think we can train our brains for memory. Repetition is important or a refresher course, for example i won’t remember what i learned in year 12 25 years ago, but i can memorise it when i bother to remember. Depending on the importance.
Freud was big on the idea that early childhood experience played a major role in forming a person’s personality. I’ve been going back to some of the earliest experiences I can remember, and I’m wondering if there was more too them than I thought.
Some scholars says, that memory is the most basic constituent in creating your own sense of identity. You create stories (true or false) about yourself through everything you have experienced in life.
At the moment i read the neurologist Oliver Sacks book about consciousness. He is writing that memory is a very malleable and organic thing. Very often you shape your memories to fit into your worldview at the moment instead of what really happened.
When I was younger, I had heard that all the memories throughout your life are permanently stored in the brain. Whether or not this is true or not I don’t know. Maybe some forgotten things are just a matter of retrieval issues, I don’t know. Obviously when you are not fully developed it would appear that they are not as most people can’t remember things as a very young child/infant. I see no reason why things would need to be “over written” though as you never run out of space in the brain. I would guess that on many things it’s a retrieval issue though. IDK. Sometimes long lost memories are revived by doing or seeing something similar.
Then again, my parents sometimes watch a TV show they have seen years ago but dont remember all the specifics and it seems like a new show to them. lol. God knows how many times they have watched “Perry Mason” episodes over and over.
I just don’t know. This is all just conjecture and me talking about it. I have done no research into it.
I’m actually an old man on his final bed, watching the entirety of my life flashing before my eyes, before I drift off to an endless void, and awaken somewhere new.
They say the stronger the emotion you have during an event, the more likely you will remember it down the road. So events that are really exciting, or sad, you remember. Sometimes good, often bad. My problem is I remember events like they just happened yesterday, so my emotions are as strong as when I first experienced the event. I have to work on that to help the memories be less traumatic each time I remember them.