5 ms·

Hah! That's a very interesting evolutionary theory. Personal experience, however, shows a mixture for me. While I was forgetful under the influence, I was also

Hah! That's a very interesting evolutionary theory. Personal experience, however, shows a mixture for me. While I was forgetful under the influence, I was also able to rediscover (if that's the correct description even) some older memories that I thought I had forgotten about. It seems to me that it also has the ability to piece back together memories that have been fragmented, in hard disk terms.

rtx 6y ago
I think we are still not sure if they are old memories or being rendered live.
- onemoresoop 6y ago
  They may reencode on recall but there is a thread that is stored from an old memory. But sure, a memory degrades from the original on recall and replaced with bits of false memories. I have an interesting anecdote on forgetting. My grandmother developed Alzheimer at around 83 and she'd ask me something then 2 minutes later she'd forgotten she asked me and ask me again. However, at some point she seemed to be deep thinking and at some point started humming a song and as she hummed more she started singing clearly a song from her kindergarten. It was even emotional to her, she had tears in her eyes but there was joy as well. Sadly she descended into complete memory loss that year and soon wasn't able to recognize anyone. So even if we temporarily forget, some things are buried deep in there only to emerge at a later age.
  - rtx 6y ago
    Sorry to hear that.
gitowiec 6y ago
Same happens to me. I was addicted to m. for about 10 years. It was addiction because I couldn't stop and I had no friends. It was in the beginning of the addiction that I discovered some unpleasant old memory of situation from my childhood that I repelled. That situation was so unpleasant that it changed the way I was treated by peers. It happened when I was 10 or 11. I remembered it when I was 20-22 smoking pot and doing occasional amphetamine. Here I am 40, 12 years after breaking my addiction and now I now that my memory is weak. I forgot a lot of things and it is hard for me to focus. The technology does not help, recently I learnt that keeping my brain constantly under dopamine flow (browsing the internet for cool things to read) degrades my ability to focus. Etc Etc. Life sometimes get you to the places you really want to go back and start again...

rtx 6y ago

I think we are still not sure if they are old memories or being rendered live.

onemoresoop 6y ago
They may reencode on recall but there is a thread that is stored from an old memory. But sure, a memory degrades from the original on recall and replaced with bits of false memories. I have an interesting anecdote on forgetting. My grandmother developed Alzheimer at around 83 and she'd ask me something then 2 minutes later she'd forgotten she asked me and ask me again. However, at some point she seemed to be deep thinking and at some point started humming a song and as she hummed more she started singing clearly a song from her kindergarten. It was even emotional to her, she had tears in her eyes but there was joy as well. Sadly she descended into complete memory loss that year and soon wasn't able to recognize anyone. So even if we temporarily forget, some things are buried deep in there only to emerge at a later age.
- rtx 6y ago
  Sorry to hear that.

gitowiec 6y ago

Same happens to me. I was addicted to m. for about 10 years. It was addiction because I couldn't stop and I had no friends. It was in the beginning of the addiction that I discovered some unpleasant old memory of situation from my childhood that I repelled. That situation was so unpleasant that it changed the way I was treated by peers. It happened when I was 10 or 11. I remembered it when I was 20-22 smoking pot and doing occasional amphetamine. Here I am 40, 12 years after breaking my addiction and now I now that my memory is weak. I forgot a lot of things and it is hard for me to focus. The technology does not help, recently I learnt that keeping my brain constantly under dopamine flow (browsing the internet for cool things to read) degrades my ability to focus. Etc Etc. Life sometimes get you to the places you really want to go back and start again...