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Regarding "No one ever takes a photograph of something they want to forget" - I take photos of things all the time of things precisely so I can forget them - I

Regarding "No one ever takes a photograph of something they want to forget" - I take photos of things all the time of things precisely so I can forget them - I take pictures of gates closed on farmland, electrical items switched off etc. I never look at these pictures again - but the simple act of taking the picture means I don't fret about them afterwards....

vsnf 2y ago
Many of the pictures I take have a lifetime, sometimes measured in hours or minutes. A restaurant I passed by before dinner that I'd like to check out later in the evening; a sign in a language I want to translate; a visual demonstration of where I am so people know where to find me in a busy train station; any number of things whose worth is almost immediately used up and subsequently deleted.
- exe34 2y ago
  I usually keep them as a random diary of where I've been and when things happened.
blowski 2y ago
Seems to me you're making sure you don't forget them by outsourcing the "remembering" to a more reliable system.
- arethuza 2y ago
  It's something like that, quite an effective tactic for dealing with my neurotic/OCD tendencies though :-)
smusamashah 2y ago
When you try to recall some past moments, do you recall the moment as you saw it with your eyes or do you recall the photo of it? I have noticed this lately that when I try to recall (e.g. a moment or time with my family) all I get back is one of the photos of it. I don't usually take photos, when I do I try not to look at them for the exact same reason as they seem to replace the actual snapshot of the moment I saw with my own damn eyes. But I recall a lot less snapshots of what I saw with my own eyes compared to what I can recall in terms of photos.
taitems 2y ago
We take photos of our kids to track and timestamp anaphylaxis or other medical reasons. Incredibly important at the time, and then when dynamic wallpapers start mixing them in to the roster you desperately want to forget them.
deskr 2y ago
I'm the same. I offload stuff to my phone's camera. Not really "offload" because I barely load it into my brain, just photograph it and don't worry about it. It has saved my mass quite a few times.

vsnf 2y ago

Many of the pictures I take have a lifetime, sometimes measured in hours or minutes. A restaurant I passed by before dinner that I'd like to check out later in the evening; a sign in a language I want to translate; a visual demonstration of where I am so people know where to find me in a busy train station; any number of things whose worth is almost immediately used up and subsequently deleted.

exe34 2y ago
I usually keep them as a random diary of where I've been and when things happened.

blowski 2y ago

Seems to me you're making sure you don't forget them by outsourcing the "remembering" to a more reliable system.

arethuza 2y ago
It's something like that, quite an effective tactic for dealing with my neurotic/OCD tendencies though :-)

smusamashah 2y ago

When you try to recall some past moments, do you recall the moment as you saw it with your eyes or do you recall the photo of it? I have noticed this lately that when I try to recall (e.g. a moment or time with my family) all I get back is one of the photos of it. I don't usually take photos, when I do I try not to look at them for the exact same reason as they seem to replace the actual snapshot of the moment I saw with my own damn eyes. But I recall a lot less snapshots of what I saw with my own eyes compared to what I can recall in terms of photos.

taitems 2y ago

We take photos of our kids to track and timestamp anaphylaxis or other medical reasons. Incredibly important at the time, and then when dynamic wallpapers start mixing them in to the roster you desperately want to forget them.

deskr 2y ago

I'm the same. I offload stuff to my phone's camera. Not really "offload" because I barely load it into my brain, just photograph it and don't worry about it. It has saved my mass quite a few times.