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My hypothesis (along with your observation) is that as we age, the way we remember things is different. At a young age, it's all sounds and images. Then languag

My hypothesis (along with your observation) is that as we age, the way we remember things is different. At a young age, it's all sounds and images. Then language gets added to it, and we start seeing events in different ways. Our old ways of accessing information (in the brain) are used less often, and we forget.

extr 10y ago
This touches on an interesting aspect of my very early childhood memories. Do you ever have dreams where you "know" you're in a familiar location, like your old high school or childhood home, but they have a completely different feeling to them, and may or may not have the same layout as in real life? My very early childhood memories have a similar sort of dreamlike quality. I know objectively the memory takes place in the neighborhood I grew up in, but there is a certain atmosphere or feeling that isn't the same and that I can never quite relay or capture today. I've wondered if this isn't due to the way these early memories are formed and stored.
- SubiculumCode 10y ago
  Sometimes, while dreaming I will recognize and recall that I've had this dream before, maybe many many times...then I feel a sense of loss, like losing a friend. A moment of de ja vu I guess. It is a weird feeling though, and I don't even know if I truly had the dream before, or if it is a false memory!!
spc476 10y ago
I recall as a teenager catching a whiff of tar and instantly recalling a memory from when I was very young (somewhere between 2 and 5) of being in a parking garage with the same smell. I can still "see" the garage and even smell it, but that's it. I have no other contextual clues to know when or where it happened (unlike my earliest memory of being in a large city---it was Chicago where we lived when I was 2, but I only know that because of what my parents have said over the years).

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My hypothesis (along with your observation) is that as we age, the way we remember things is different. At a young age, it's all sounds and images. Then languag

by ktRolster 10y ago

extr 10y ago
This touches on an interesting aspect of my very early childhood memories. Do you ever have dreams where you "know" you're in a familiar location, like your old high school or childhood home, but they have a completely different feeling to them, and may or may not have the same layout as in real life? My very early childhood memories have a similar sort of dreamlike quality. I know objectively the memory takes place in the neighborhood I grew up in, but there is a certain atmosphere or feeling that isn't the same and that I can never quite relay or capture today. I've wondered if this isn't due to the way these early memories are formed and stored.
- SubiculumCode 10y ago
  Sometimes, while dreaming I will recognize and recall that I've had this dream before, maybe many many times...then I feel a sense of loss, like losing a friend. A moment of de ja vu I guess. It is a weird feeling though, and I don't even know if I truly had the dream before, or if it is a false memory!!
spc476 10y ago
I recall as a teenager catching a whiff of tar and instantly recalling a memory from when I was very young (somewhere between 2 and 5) of being in a parking garage with the same smell. I can still "see" the garage and even smell it, but that's it. I have no other contextual clues to know when or where it happened (unlike my earliest memory of being in a large city---it was Chicago where we lived when I was 2, but I only know that because of what my parents have said over the years).