Why do we remember some life moments but not others?
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#2"The wilderness isn't quite what I expected. It's kinda... wild. I mean, it's not like they made it sound in my book. My dad made it sound so easy. He's really good at camping and how to make fire from rocks and stuff. He used to come to all my sweat lodge meetings. And afterwards we'd go get ice cream at Fenton's. I always get chocolate and he gets butter brickle. Then we'd sit on this one curb right outside, and I'll count all the blue cars and he counts all the red ones, and whoever gets the most wins. I like that curb.
That might sound boring, but I think the boring stuff is the stuff I remember the most."
--Up
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#3> Memory isn’t just a passive recording device: our brains decide what matters, and emotional events can reach back in time to stabilize fragile memories
So they are saying … attention is all you need? :-) If it’s surprising or shocking enough you’ll pay very close attention to it and remember it.
Also smells have a very strong recall factor. You smell the same unique smell and it immediately takes you back to the time and place. At least that’s how it works for me.
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#4Isn't this obvious? Anyone who was old enough to remember 9/11 whom I've spoken to can recall several mundane aspects of that day.
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#5I remember the dumbest things from eons ago…
In a drivers ed meeting.. teacher talking about stop lights, he mentions the cross walk signs and said “Well get to those soon..”. But he never did.
I think about this way too much.
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#6> Memory isn’t just a passive recording device: our brains decide what matters, and emotional events can reach back in time to stabilize fragile memories So they are saying … attention is all you need? :-) If it’s surprising or shocking enough you’ll pay very close attention to it and remember it. Also smells have a very strong recall factor. You smell the same unique smell and it immediately takes you back to the ti…
For those who don't get the reference. It's googles breakthrough paper on LLM's.
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#7Isn't this obvious? Anyone who was old enough to remember 9/11 whom I've spoken to can recall several mundane aspects of that day.
"Previous studies have disagreed on whether or not weaker memories are stabilized, or made easier to recall, by attachment to a more prominent one."
So doesn't seem that obvious at all.
I remember random mundane events from tons of random days, unconnected to any prominent event (as near as I can determine anyway). And I also remember some random mundane stuff from days something prominent did happen. Whether there's a bias towards days with prominent events is entirely unclear to me.
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#8There's an arbitrariness, a mundaneness to some indelible memories that defies this explanation. Or any explanation like this. It feels partly true. But there's got to be more, in my experience.
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#9Isn't this obvious? Anyone who was old enough to remember 9/11 whom I've spoken to can recall several mundane aspects of that day.
> Anyone who was old enough to remember 9/11 whom I've spoken to can recall several mundane aspects of that day.
The subtitle addresses this:
BU study finds memories of mundane incidents can be
strengthened when they get attached to a memory of an
emotionally charged event[0]