Do you have a good memory? Why or why not? Do you wish you could remember more? Why?

Answer 1

I used to have a fabulous memory. I could recite whole conversations back to you. Remember every last detail of a scene. Find things that other people put down. I attribute that to my early school days when I was in yeshiva. I wouldn't have enough time to write down all of my homework assignments, so, I assigned it to memory.

Alas, time is slowly taking that away from me.

Answer 2

Boy, that was original, huh? "What was the question? I forget..." - lol

I do have an excellent memory! I think part of it is IQ but part of it is a result of filtering and the ability to categorize. I tend to filter information (almost autistically) so that anything that qualifies as worthy of memory space is sort of categorized... almost triaged... so that it's filed away in either "I'll hang on to this for a while to see if I'll need to remember it" or "Oh I have to remember this!" or "I will definitely never need to know this again."

If I don't do this, I will overwhelm myself with information and not be able to focus a higher level of thought process on the vital things and carry that thought process to the nth degree the way I do. I think it's like making sure I have enough RAM or something - lol

On the flip side, my husband, who is not a very bright individual... and who can't remember to order prescriptions or change the furnace filter, beats me badly every time we play Trivial Pursuit because he just remembers everything equally... just little bits of random information over the years that wind up coming in very handy when you need trivia :) Obviously he categorizes things differently.

He remembers what I ordered to eat on our first date.

I can barely remember our wedding anniversary.

He knows the stats of every baseball player ever born...

I do genetic research...

He struggles to read a story to the kids without mispronunciations...

But I can call him from anywhere and say "Okay, I'm lost again, guide me home, OnStar..." because my sense of direction is terrible and he can say "Okay now on your left you'll see a median strip coming up, and you'll want to turn at the second opening there..."

It all evens out - lol

One of these days I plan to teach him enough about genetics that he understands what I mean when I say "p" and "q" referring to the arms of a chromosome and I'd like for him to teach me how to operate our television so that I can watch it without assistance (there's a large screen TV, a cable box, a DVD player and some other thing so there's three remotes and I don't care enough about television to bother to learn how to use it.)

I think my wish for my memory is that I could remember more things that I found unimportant... that I've later discovered were important to others. I feel like I've said a million times in my head "I didn't realize that mattered to him/her so much... I wish I'd kept that memory...."

Answer 3

I have a good memory. But remembering everything has a price and sometimes you don't want to remember certain things in your past.

Answer 4

Of course I wish I could remember more. Everybody does. I'm a translator, I speak two foreign languages. More words I learn, more time I spend while translating. I'ma also a writer, so ... again with the words. words...words..words... Oh, boy how I need words now!!!!

Answer 5

i have a horrible memory... but that probably has sth to do with me not paying attention. of course i wish i could remember more stuff...

Answer 6

Nope smoked too much weed as a teenager. Thought it was cool but wish i hadnt done half as much..............destroyed my short term memory even now!

Answer 7

Yes. Because. Yes. Because.

Answer 8

I don't remember

Answer 9

No. Why should I remember it all when others won't?

Answer 10

what is the question, i forgot.