memory issues

[RedN]

any of you have memory issues?

I dont know why but recently, since i went into my meds ive been really forgetting things.

what i did or said or saw its... I dont know. I dont want to think im getting old i mean... im not that old.....

i think i decided to use notes to myself like write em somewhere but i also just keep on forgetting to.

i checked it out and some other effects combined are

mental confusion, mental depression, excesive worrying, irritability, anxiety, mood swings

hmmmmm >_<

 

[Sanctum]

I have a pretty bad Short term memory, like i can hide something for safe keeping and then forget where i hid it, but on the other hand I have excellent long term memory i was talking with my mom the other day and shared memories of when I was 2 and 3 year old ages most people don't remember.

 

[GeneralPatton]

My memory has been shitty half my life, however in recent years before, during and post back surgery the morphine and many derivatives have probably made it worse.

 

[SLushhYYY]

My memory is horrid, my subconscious doesn't remember anything that I do t want to remember, such as names, random events, emotions etc...

My directional memory is very good, though. As well as my memory dealing with things that interest me. I think it deals with ones intuitive nature, so many things go on in my mind it's hard to keep track of everything.

 

[Da Blob]

There are a lot of different types of memory and I have always seemed to be missing a few (?). How can one remember a lost type of memory...

Anyway, this is a good topic, for I've always wondered if INTPians shared the same set of memory skills.

Personally, I don't seem to have much of a recall memory (names, dates, facts)
but my recognition memory is pretty much off the charts.

It is rather frustrating, I excel at multiple choice tests, for I can recognize the right answer, but present the same test questions requiring the use of recall, rather than recognition memory and I utterly fail.

Pfft! I scored 740 on my GED test 35 years after my last exposure to math, but I never got more than a C (average) in any math class. I understand math, I just can't recall math from my memory...

There is a lot of factors that can affect memory, any drug that alters consciousness alters memory, after all, consciousness itself is just a form of memory...

 

[RedN]

hmmmm dates are almost impossible for me. names are hard too... things that are made of letters and numbers = theyre all hard

pictures, for example the hundreds if not thousands of magic cards I have, I dont memorize them but if i see a card, I can tell if i have it or not.

 

[The Gopher]

I have the standard memory problems but I also have a few unusual ones... First when I remember a game from when I was younger but it turns out it doesn't exist. Also I seem to have forgoten a whole period when I was around 10-12. And just recently I discovered one of my friends never existed... When I was 15 I had a friend but he ended up dying. Only just now I had a repeat dream that made me realise he was only a dream to begin with.

(yeah that last part had me confused for a while...)

 

[Hadoblado]

Wow Goph that's intense!

I have difficulty with both attention and memory, which feed into one another and make for a really shitty time. I don't pay attention to, and have difficulty remembering, specifics; concepts are fine.

 

[RedN]

so youre a schizo of sorts then gopher? its cool actually well for me...

i have some memories too that i sorta remembered and believed but after a few years Id just at random remember the real thing, real version of it.

i mean when i think about it i just remembered a bit of an important event in my life when i was like 10 a few months ago. oh well.

my earliest memory of school is that i stuck bubble gum on this boys hair and I spent the day trying to get it off him.

 

[Da Blob]

I have an impossible memory, literally, that is why I am so skeptical about the refutation of dualism. Supposedly long term memory capacity does not come online until the age of three or four years, when the brain grows enough to be able to process that type of memory - but I have memories from the womb onward.

I know how that sounds, but it seems everyone may have such memories, but usually can't access them. There was a time when they were building Artificial Wombs for Adults to facilitate re-expierencing the state of being of an unborn infant and I have found that the altered states of consciousness sought after by those who practice Eastern Meditation are also those of infancy.

BTW- I believe though that most refer to the Artificial wombs as sensory deprivation chambers or isolation tanks

An isolation tank is a lightless, soundproof tank inside which subjects float in salt water at skin temperature. They were first used by John C. Lilly[1] in 1954 to test the effects of sensory deprivation. Such tanks are now also used for meditation and relaxation and in alternative medicine. The isolation tank was originally called the sensory deprivation tank. Other names for the isolation tank include flotation tank, John C. Lilly tank, REST tank, sensory attenuation tank, and think tank.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation_tank

Such a device is not really necessary for those skilled in cognitive manipulation/meditation. During the process of hypnogogia, when one transcends into sleep, just hit the Pause button the instant before one usually loses consciousness.