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Maybe it's an attention thing. Attention is like a flashlight in a dark room full of furniture. One of those focusable flaslights that you can twist from spot
by swayvil 4y ago
Maybe it's an attention thing.
Attention is like a flashlight in a dark room full of furniture. One of those focusable flaslights that you can twist from spot to flood.
When the flashlight is spot you illuminate that chair brightly. Every detail in high contrast. But you don't see the couch or the coffeetable.
When the flashlight is flood you see everything in the room, but dimly.
Longterm memory is like the coffeetable. If you're focussed on the couch then you aren't gonna see the coffeetable.
Women seem to prefer the flood. Men the spot.
- rapjr9 4y agoIt may have to do with rehearsal of memories. Some people go over and over their past, recount it often in stories told to others, discuss it with people who were there at the time. Others don't dwell on the past, don't often review it, and focus on now. It may require some repetition to engrain memories long term and keep them fresh. Although other research suggests that every revisit of a memory alters it somewhat, is a rethinking of it, and the rethinking is remembered instead of the original. Eyewitness testimony in court is notoriously unreliable. Everyone has their own contexts and remembers events in light of those contexts, rather than what actually happened. One person remembers it was a fun party, another that it was a dreadful party.
- joecool1029 4y agoI dunno, I have excellent autobiographical memory with the exception I can't tie the events to specific times, I just know how/what happened. Like I can tell someone it happened and if I have a log of it digitally I know exactly where to search, like minute conversations from 15 years ago. I'm a man who's also ambidextrous and ADHD'd. I don't file, I collect and search.