I'm 30+ but only remember a day's worth of my life.

[flobadob]

I was just thinking there, I'm in my 30's now, but I feel if I were to sit down and rack my brains about things that I've done and played them out in real time, I doubt if I could come up with 24 hours of material. Now, I admit that I don't have the best memory but I still find that a scary or something. Did it even happen at all?

[boxtops]

I only remember flashes, then can draw down stuff in more detail if I need do - but there are wads of time which I don't remember at all. I don't think we could handle it if we remembered every single minute - but strangely, the older I get, the more I remember.

[emmie]

the older you get the more you remember from way back, its the short term memory that seems to fade, i can recall sitting in a garden playing with my siblings as a small child, but not what i did yesterday, its the oddity of it all.

[Pinkypie]

I'm always amazed at how much my friends remember about our childhood and growing up. I can never remember things. I even get shown pictures and think to myself "I don't remember that!"

Worrying as I've only just turned 30!!

[wildwood]

btw flobabob, don't forget you borrowed forty quid from me last year. No hurry, anytime in the next week will do. :-)

[JonnyBoy12]

I am told that memories are meant to fade which is not very helpful. I like to thing that I have got a good memory but some things I do not recall.

[didoatwork]

Oh Pinky how true - I feel totally inadequate when friends start reminiscing.

[wolf63]

The information is still all there - filed away in your brain. It's your retrieval system that is at fault.

Like you I can only remember snippets of my life and some of those are confused and distorted.

It is amazing how memories resurface due to a sight, a sound, a taste or a smell.

I always thought that it would be a good idea if we could download our brains into a computer upon out death. It can be done - I saw it on Star Trek or Stargate.

;-)

[albaqwerty]

probably both but I can't remember which.


I think it was Stargate tho.

[Frank97]

I had to see a counselor when I was 34, she asked me to tell my life story from the beginning.
I found it a quiet interesting experience to recall your whole life or as much as you can remember to a complete stranger. I was also surprised at how much I did actually remember although not minute by minute of course.

[flobadob]

I don't think I've remembered a new incident from my past in a long long time. I just recall certain things that are always there, but I can't recall just suddenly remembering something that I'd forgotten about, out of the blue.

That was hard to phrase and I don't think I want to try again.

[ummmm]

I remember everything vividly....I even remember how I felt at certain times. I just can't remember things I do on auto pilot. Like driving to the supermarket....going to fetch something from a different room. Mundane things...