Recently, my life feels like a blur, like I dont really remember what happened even in the past 2 weeks, and this has cause me some anxiety.
I just want to know if this is what everyone’s memory is like.
How much of your life do you remember, like do you only remember major events in your life, or do you remember like what you have been doing for the past 2 weeks.
What I mean is like, if someone asked you “So, what have you been last week”
You can come up with an answer like:
“So I watched [X] movie on Netflix on Monday, went to a nearby park on Tuesday, ate at [X] restaurant on Wednesday, found a new interesting Youtube Channel to watch on Thursday, petted a friendly neighborhood cat on Friday…” etc…
And like you can still remember what happened that week the following Monday.
Like obviously most people wouldn’t remember what they ate every meal, but like just one major event that happened each day.
I feel like I don’t remember shit. Not a single event.
Stress can wreck memory.
I am not great with faces, apparently, because people recognize me but I don’t recognize them, a lot. Like, no shit the FedEx guy bringing stuff to my work recognized me from grade school. Some people are REALLY good at recognizing people.
In general I’d say I am much better at figuring things out, than remembering them, and it has ever been so. Even in school I passed algebra by remembering the quadratic formula and just figuring out the rest of it each time. I don’t do things the same way every time. When I try to do things by rote, without thinking I fuck them up.
If it’s bothering you, try mindfulness - throughout the day take a breath, relax and become more aware of what you are doing and hearing and seeing and feeling. Get in the habit of paying close attention.
But I do think it’s normal to sort of discard a lot and only remember a little.
Not that well. At least not accurately. I give my memory a lot of credit, but the majority of my memories are the equivalent of how you might be watching TV and a person’s face is blurred out. The “memory” in this case is there but with aspects fizzled out. I often have to triangulate lost recollections from the memories that do exist.
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Hey do you dissociate a lot? My dissociation ruins my memory in a way very similar to yours. This questionnaire can kind of give you a guideline on how much dissociation you may have
http://traumadissociation.com/desMostly spatial. I can often find a passage in a book by where it was located on the page (I hate audiobooks and ebooks for this reason). I can’t remember a lot of my experiences later, unless someone can tell me where I was or what I might have been looking at. I’ll probably remember exactly where everyone was standing, but not what any of us said. Sometimes I wonder if I lost my eyesight if I would still be able to make memories at all.
Longish term cannabis dependency chiming in - not great.
Yeah me too. I don’t know how much of my memory issues are my fault or the ganja’s.
The best way to test this is to take a break. The first thing I notice, after about 2 weeks (YMMV), is my memory seems to improve dramatically. That and my perception of time seems to change - in general, things move slower/more sensory information fills the same amount of time - which I think is related to memory.
Now, the question becomes: Is that purely because I stopped smoking weed, or because I’m having a comparatively novel experience of my day to day activities - where the salience of things in your environment increases, which means it’s easier to form and recall a memory of them? Or is it just that I’m eating better, getting more exercise, etc. as means to distract from wanting to smoke in the early break stages?
No idea. All I know is it’s pretty sweet until (for me, at max so far) six months out when smoking seems like a great idea again.
Every time I eat, I forget what I last shit. Every time I shit, I forget what I last ate. It’s a very simple system called FIFO (First In First Out). Very low memory requirements…
My memory is poor and my facial recognition is zero.
I remember broad timelines, and I try to take pictures of my life so I can look back and jog my memories. Sometimes weird memories randomly bubble up to my consciousness though.
When I’m high? Pretty bad. When I’m sober? I need reminders for things lol.
extremely bad, but it depend on what things, like i can’t remember what was my last meal or something, but i can remember “stem” (can’t think of a better word here) fairly.
If you need someone to remember completely useless trivia like Pokémon type matchups and the years of video game releases, I’m your guy.
If you want me to remember what I ate yesterday, I couldn’t tell you. If you want me to remember what cities I visited on my trip to Europe two years ago, I’d literally have to look at my notes; the specifics of my autobiographical memory, even for major events, quickly dissolve into a blur of impressions and images.
Once my boss, looking for someone to blame for some infraction, asked me “Did you work yesterday?” I couldn’t recall what I’d done the day before, so I started to “umm” while I thought about the schedule and tried to remember if I’d already had my days off that week, but I couldn’t bring it to mind… so I had to admit that I didn’t know. My boss said, disbelieving, “You don’t remember if you worked yesterday!?” I said, “You know, the days all blur together…” and he just shook his head and walked off to bother someone else.
I’d say… wait, what was the question?
Dude how did you forget. The question is…
wait…
hmm…
🤔
[Error: Brain.exe has crashed]
better buy ECC memory next time!
ecc can only help prevent (or fix) errors, what to do about lack of memory. that brings me back to, what was the question again
Time for swap, aka writing things down.
I remember a lot of stuff but tying it to a specific day can be hard sometimes. Something I thought happened yesterday mightve happened like 3 days ago and a week out I’m pretty unsure unless it happened on a holiday or rent day or something. I can remember major events and random things from a long time ago though. Earliest memory I can muster up is crawling on some red carpet in my grandparents trailer. They moved out of that place when I was 1 year old
I went to the dentist once and said, “you called me a couple of weeks ago to tell me my mouthguard is ready.” They said, “that was 8 months ago!” 🤷
If you asked me about last Wednesday or the one before, I could probably tell you eventually. You might get a lot of detail about the rest of the week along the way, because I’d have to piece together what I did and which day Wednesday was.
It would be about the same if you asked me about the current weather moments after I walked inside. I might be able to tell you, but I’m going to have to build the memories on the spot.
Yes, both.
- I’ve always been bad at remembering who I met or what we talk about
- I can doom scroll for hours without recalling anything of note
- when things are hectic the daily details disappears
- ask me a technical question and I’ll vomit entire manuals at you
