is it possible to forget anything?

Answer 1

Oh, so you've never spoken to a pre-menopausal woman?

Answer 2

I forget things that I want to remember (dates, appointments), yet things that I want to forget (like painful memories) never seem to go away...memory is faulty & we don't always have control over it. Sometimes I'll strain to remember something & can't get a single detail, other memories are as vivid as the day they happened. It must be frightening for people who suffer short term memory loss, or worse amnesia or Alzheimers. Imagine forgetting everything? Even yourself & the people you love.

We store all these experiences in our brain like a computer but some of the files get misplaced, we can't access them. We are bombarded with so much sensory information from the time we're born. How can there be room to store it all? From the basics like language & learning to walk, to all the seemingly pointless facts you have to memorize in school, to things you see on the news, events you encounter on the job, emotional experiences with friends, family, lovers, movies you saw, songs you heard, books you read. Can our brain run out of disk space? Can we have too many memories? Maybe the brain can become overloaded, overwhelmed or something could go wrong & we're short-circuited, losing a lot of those memories...

The short answer is yes, of course it's possible to forget anything, but can you control what you forget & what you remember? Probably not.

Answer 3

Of course. Everybody has things they cannot remember. People forget most things, if you mean to ask whether in their conscious mind they are capable of recalling a fact, event, or experience they once knew.

Do you mean to ask whether anyone ever be beyond the effects of a past experience or do they always retain it in some way? Well, we are a product of everything that ever happened to us -- mentally and physically. The world is the end result of everything that ever happened. But sometimes you cannot work backwards to determine what happened based on the current state of things. Some past events are truly unknowable. In that sense, you forget.

Answer 4

it is possible to forget unimportant things, but it is also possible to forget things that affected you really hard (like a serious physical trauma) because our brain has that function and it's alive and kicking.
For physical abuse (in order to forget it) our brain has already adapted, but for psychical abuse, it still has a long way to go to in order to effectively protect us.

Answer 5

for the moment, Yes, but technically you never forget anything.

Answer 6

Yes and no, for a short period of time you ma not remember something but it is a proven fact that when you learn something it will always stay with you.

Answer 7

Anythings possible if you put your mind to it,but it's also called amnesia.

Answer 8

Yes. POOR MEMORY helps.

Even, AMNESIA can do the trick. But I don't know any sure way of self-inducing it.

Answer 9

Easy, Just don't remember

Answer 10

Yes, if you want to.