I've wondered for awhile why certain memories stick in your mind for along time(one perticular memory is me being in the pool with my best friend and her getting mildly shocked by the slide) and i just can't forget about it but a really significent memory of a wedding or a concert I have no memory of(i know these events happened because people talked to me about it) so why does this happen?
2007-03-03 17:35:12 · 7 answers · asked by Laur 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
that is memory recall, deeply embedded in our mind
2007-03-03 17:38:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not the case that you don't have any memory of these other events, there are just ones you cannot access, because you don't have the correct cues. You have accessed this memory, for whatever reason it first happened, so now it is clear in your mind. If you had the correct 'cues' then you would likely be able to recall the other memories.
It's not a case of which ones are still in your memory, because any information that has been stored in the long term memory remains (so other significant memories will be there) you just have trouble accessing them. Many things can act as cues to recall memory, such as if you say, went back to where the wedding took place, this could cue your memory and you'd start remembering things from the wedding. Things like that. But there is no way of knowing which things are going to act as the correct 'cues'.
2007-03-04 05:27:43 · answer #2 · answered by Shanti76 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don`t want to shock you so I will only say that all our memories are available. Aside from that, the reason why some memories are complete, vivid, and easily accessible, is that you were present to that moment. Some people spend most of their lives creating memory and by that they mean being present or remembering themselves. The reason they do this is that they are convinced that this is the way to create their own souls so that they will not need to be reborn. In any event what you described fits the first part.
2007-03-10 15:38:46 · answer #3 · answered by canron4peace 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You answered your own question. You said she was shocked by the slide, so were you, probably with fear. The other events are not remembered as well because they had no outstanding event other then what was expected. I think you have to be affected with surprise, shock or another strong emotion to get it planted firmly in your memory.
2007-03-04 01:40:54 · answer #4 · answered by JAN 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
like someone else said about the repressed memories. it's all up there. locked away. and then you feel something, or hear something or in some way experience something that brings it all back. like deja vu
2007-03-10 15:55:53 · answer #5 · answered by elliemay 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are some things we repress, but when something similar happens, it all comes back to you.
2007-03-04 01:45:06 · answer #6 · answered by shermynewstart 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i want to forget alot of things.
can some one help me?
2007-03-11 16:33:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋