Which is more important: actual experiences, or the memories that remain when the experiences are over?

Answer 1

The memories the experience only last for awhile but what you remember about that time and how you felt is whats important

Answer 2

That's sort of a metaphysical question isn't it?

Once the experience is over, all that remains is the memories. You can't have one without the other. If you don't remember the experience, then it was probably not important. If you never have the experience, then you can't remember it.

Similarly, memory is the brain's perception of an event. The way you remember it may or may not be the way it actually happened. I think that the memory of the event has a more profound affect on the person than the actual event. It's all about how you perceive it.

Think about an event that is happy for some and unhappy for others, like a football game. The loser is unhappy and the winner is happy. Is it more important that the game actually occurred or the way the people who experienced it remembered it? I think that's a pretty easy question to answer.

Answer 3

Well the memories that remain can only do so after the actual event has occured, and memories are really only an echo of an event or experience. An event is itself only a momentary experience, but a memory can be replayed, reexperienced, relived for the rest of your life, so I think my final answer would be memories that remain.
Would you want to only experience events and not remember them? That would be sad. It's much less sad to think of having memories,but never experienceing the event, creepy, but then you at least have the memory, which is indistiguishable from the event itself in your brain.

Answer 4

I say the actual experience. Live in the moment and enjoy what you are doing as you are doing it. Stop looking forward to the next thing and enjoy the present, because it will be gone all too soon, and memories will be all that's left. Granted, they are a nice little bonus, but they will be richer if you appreciate the experience as it unfolds.

Answer 5

the memories that remain when the experiences are over

Answer 6

Experiences are more important assuming that (1) they don't involve activites that lead to memory impairment; and (2) they are the basis for having memories.

Answer 7

The memories, for sure. That's what you have left once the experience is over.

Answer 8

I would say a combo of both. If you didnt experience it, then you would have no memories of it. But it is nice to sit back and reminisce with friends and family about the past. It puts a smile on your face when your down and out.

Answer 9

Me personally would opt for memory loss on bad stuff.

Instant recall on the nice stuff.

Overall, memory can go hang, you know ?.

I mean seniors carry on about the old days, etc as if it made a real difference. It goes overboard. Live today.

Better a bowl of beans today with happy slurping sounds, than the memory of the veal stew from your would-be-mother-in-law in 1972.

Answer 10

well you cant have the memories without the experiences, but you cant have the experiences without the memories. they lean on each other and need each other to exist, so they are both important.