Memories.

[Jon McKee]

A weird quirk of the human brain I suppose. It's geared more towards remembering "natural" things than abstractions such as numbers. I recently heard a song I hadn't heard in over 10 years and knew every lyric, the pitch, and timing. Now if only I could remember names and dates that well :doh:

[Vikram A Punathambekar]

Yeah, that's long term vs short term memory.

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[Mycroft Holmes]

CodeWraith wrote:

It stores a description which can later be used to reconstruct the original information

reference required for that.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

[CodeWraith]

I can't tell you where I once read that, but this may help.[^]

Quote:

Unlike short-term memory (which relies mostly on an acoustic, and to a lesser extent a visual, code for storing information), long-term memory encodes information for storage semantically (i.e. based on meaning and association).

[Rob Philpott]

Not sure - forgot to take my memory tablet this morning.

Regards, Rob Philpott.

[theoldfool]

As people with dementia progress, long term memory remains long after short term memory fails. Have been associated with several, they can recite things from the past even when they can't carry on a normal conversation. I suspect that it is part of the aging process for our brains. Me? I just have CRS= Can't Remember, er, um "Stuff" :|

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[W Balboos GHB]

Your memory of that reference is a classic example of filling in the blanks. (None of this ever happened, including this)

Ravings en masse^

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[KarstenK]

Yes it happens sometimes. It is depending on how the deep the impression or feelings were and how many other impressions (or feelings or informations) of the same kind had overwritten it. I call it "information overflow" and it is like a limited cache where unimportant informations got deleted after some newer or hotter stuff. :~

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[CodeWraith]

Are you sure you are not confusing this with the browser cache? :-)

[Marc Clifton]

OriginalGriff wrote:

Does this happen to anyone else, or is it just me?

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OriginalGriff wrote:

I have difficulty getting it to remember phone numbers and dates,

As an experiment, when trying to memorize something particularly abstract like a phone number, try doing some simple physical movement for a minute or so -- foot stomping, clapping to the pattern of the number, whatever, and see how that affects your ability to remember the number later.

OriginalGriff wrote:

faces and names

I find this harder -- my visual memory is weird. I can recognize a face, but I can't describe a face. For me, I realized it's a lack of deep observation -- hair color and style, eye color, the line of the cheek and jaw bones, etc. Same with names -- when I took a Dale Carnegie class on [How to Win Friends and Influence People](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How\_to\_Win\_Friends\_and\_Influence\_People) it really helped to associate the name with another mnemonic (where did the spelling of that word come from???) as well as a physical activity. Marc

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[raddevus]

OriginalGriff wrote:

I have difficulty getting it to remember phone numbers and dates, faces and names, but it happily stores complete GPS info for a road I rode on maybe 7 or 14 times 20 years ago?

You remember what is important to _you_. :)

[raddevus]

This is also sideways related to a thing called The Memory Palace or Method of loci - Wikipedia[^] . Isn't it interesting that you can remember how to walk through a house you lived in as a child and many buildings you may have visited even though it may have been 20 years ago since you were there. For some reason our minds do memorize spatially. The Memory Palace system uses this fact as a way to store things you want to remember. I've listened to hundreds of books as I commute. There are times when I turn a corner or come to a particular intersection and a part of a specific book I listened to 10 years ago come back to mind.

[Lost User]

But you remembered that you had forgotten to take the tablet to stop you forgetting. :confused:

[Jeremy Falcon]

I think it's everyone. Human memory tends to work in conjunction with emotion. As to say, the things we are most emotional about tend to burn in our memories. It's typically why most women remember tiny details about the relationship that guys forget... because they are more emotional about it. There's too much information these days, so I think as a whole we've learned to ignore crap that's not necessary. But if you think about the stuff you recall the most in the past, $20 says there's some emotional attachment to it. I'm guessing this emotion was joy... the brain remembers man. I think emotions are our way of accessing it.

Jeremy Falcon

[Jeremy Falcon]

I read about the movement thing too, and I totally 110% agree. We need to remember that as adults too though, lest we get too sedentary.

Jeremy Falcon

[Gary Wheeler]

Jeremy Falcon wrote:

We need to remember that as adults too though, lest we get too sedentary

Indeed. Yet another reason why I run/bike/lift. I've watched too many family members suffer through "golden years" made miserable by arthritis and constraints from heart disease and diabetes. The rule is simple: the more you move, the more you will be able to move, and the longer you will continue moving.

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[Jeremy Falcon]

:thumbsup:

Jeremy Falcon

[kalberts]

Sidetracking:

OriginalGriff wrote:

feel the weight of a chain mail shirt.

I've tried one of those, and was really surprised how lightweight it feels once you have it properly on. It is so flexible that it distributes its weight more or less evenly over your entire shoulders, without pressing noticably anywhere. On the main track: Like others say: It happens all the time. What bothers me is that sometimes I recall some very specific smell, taste, color... from my childhood (in memory only, not because I encounter it again in real life), but cannot remember what had that smell, taste or color! There is no way to ask anyone else for help: If I could say "You know, like the smell of ", I would have had the answer. Some times, my head is buzzing with that taste / smell / color for hours, or even days, before it finally gives up (there is no way to forrcably stop it), or maybe conclude that "It probably was the taste of so-and-so". I sometimes find it very tiresome when my head is busy searching memory for hours.

[Retired2017]

My memory is also going. I had to look up FTFY.

[CodeWraith]

SNAFU :-)