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My memory is "timeless." That is to say, if I am able to recall something, I don't necessarily have a time frame for when it happened. Something that happened yesterday can seem like a distant memory while something from childhood feels like it happened yesterday.
I have the same thing! Does it extend into the imagined future for your too? I can simultaneously feel as if I'm right in this moment both still a child but also already lying in my grave.
Episodic memory 2/10 : I keep forgetting things that happen to me ; I barely remember anything further than 5 years ago.
Semantic memory 10/10 : if I ever heard a factoid about screwheads in my teens, I still remember it verbatim 😂
Yeah this it.
I don't remember events unless they are emotionally charged. My wife hates that I forget the things she tells me.
I don't really even remember TV shows or movies for very long. I don't mind that because I can rewatch my favourites and re-enjoy them.
I used to be able to remember hundreds of unique complex passwords for my different accounts; I remember facts, figures and technical details easily and permanently.
Rather problematic. I probably have SDAM(severly deficient autobiographical memory) so there is no lived through part of memory. "Making memories" literally doesn't work for me. There is only factual information saved, just a long black and white list in a notebook, but that one is scrambled by ADHD. So my memory is just a pile of keywords thrown on the ground.
The only reliable memory type is just muscle memory.
I call everyone mate and people put it down to me being Australian, which I am.
I'm good with faces, terrible with names. I need to be very familiar with you before I'll remember your name.
Nobody is tricked by that ploy.
I still do it, but I've had some success with just being honest - that I'm sorry for not being able to remember people's names.
Sometimes I'll ask them to add themselves as a contact on my phone with a description, so I can remember better ... at least one person found that charming, lol
My memory is really good actually, except for names and dates.
When I learn something new about the world, I can cross-link it to other things I know and the structure of understanding reinforces the memories synergetically.
But names are just arbitrary, they don't mean anything. "That guy's name is David" doesn't reinforce, and isn't reinforced by, any other facts about the world. I've just got to remember that lone, isolated factoid, and I'm rarely successful.
Well it depends. Am I interested or rather does my brain think it's interesting? It's forever mine.
Otherwise, no. No use in trying to remember.
Explains why my school experience was very different from other people. Wish I knew then.
Mine's context-dependent.
Random, utterly useless piece of trivia associated with a special interest? No problem.
General knowledge? Very hit and miss. Sport (particularly AFL and cricket) is a big thing here in Aus and apart from the odd famous cricketer and a few AFL team names, I couldn't tell you much -- it just doesn't interest me, so very little of it gets retained.
What I do find interesting is that my memory works for pattern-matching people and music in TV and movies. For years, whenever I've seen an actor I recognise (although not necessarily recall their name), I can usually work out all the other shows I've seen them in (occasionally resorting to IMDB when I can't place them). I've noticed I'm getting better at guessing composers based on the soundtrack, too, even when I might have only seen two films with music by a certain composer.
The other odd thing is that negative emotions generally form strong memories, but positive ones do not. I can recall any number of distressing moments and get a sense of the emotion, but I don't have that with positive experiences -- they seem to be stored more like facts. I can usually remember the event itself, but the memory doesn't seem to include an emotional response. It's probably the most frustrating thing about how my memory works.
Surprisingly, I tend to remember people's names.
Probably because the word comes with a vidual example.
I also mix up names often
Btw @LadyButterfly@reddthat.com Bahaj is back if you want to go back there
Yeah, no, they know you don't know their name. It's really obvious when someone is doing this.