Thursday, January 19
Memories fade with time. Things you once recalled with precise vividness now becomes a grainy sketch. This is especially true for me. I forget things fast. Army life now seems so distant, needless to say my time in school is just a hazy mess now. I still can remember general things, but it is an uphill task to pinpoint individual days or events.
Why is my conscious memory different from dreams? Why do I wake up with the details of the dream so clear in my mind, but as the day goes along, I find it almost impossible to recount the experience? I forget my dreams so much faster than my conscious experiences.
What would it be like if we had impeccable memory? Would we be plagued by guilt and shame for every wrong deed we have committed? Or would we simply block them out and avoid thinking of them?
On another note, I could have the easiest time studying. Taking one look at the textbook and everything will be permanently stored in my head.
I wonder what it is like to suffer from short-term memory. Like if you woke up everyday, being unable to recall not only your dreams, but the day before as well. Like in the movie
50 First Dates. (I haven't watched it myself, but I've read about it on
IMDb.) We would be living without a past. Living only in the present. I guess, everything will be so much more fun because I will be doing it for the "first" time every time. Maybe that is how it is with everything. The way to inject fun into anything is to approach it as if you are doing it for the first time. Then life would always be exciting. Perhaps.
Or maybe that is just being childish?
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Thursday, January 19
Memories fade with time. Things you once recalled with precise vividness now becomes a grainy sketch. This is especially true for me. I forget things fast. Army life now seems so distant, needless to say my time in school is just a hazy mess now. I still can remember general things, but it is an uphill task to pinpoint individual days or events.
Why is my conscious memory different from dreams? Why do I wake up with the details of the dream so clear in my mind, but as the day goes along, I find it almost impossible to recount the experience? I forget my dreams so much faster than my conscious experiences.
What would it be like if we had impeccable memory? Would we be plagued by guilt and shame for every wrong deed we have committed? Or would we simply block them out and avoid thinking of them?
On another note, I could have the easiest time studying. Taking one look at the textbook and everything will be permanently stored in my head.
I wonder what it is like to suffer from short-term memory. Like if you woke up everyday, being unable to recall not only your dreams, but the day before as well. Like in the movie
50 First Dates. (I haven't watched it myself, but I've read about it on
IMDb.) We would be living without a past. Living only in the present. I guess, everything will be so much more fun because I will be doing it for the "first" time every time. Maybe that is how it is with everything. The way to inject fun into anything is to approach it as if you are doing it for the first time. Then life would always be exciting. Perhaps.
Or maybe that is just being childish?
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