• Slotos@feddit.nlEnglish
    40·
    2 days ago

    That’s everyone’s brains. Emotional (and physical) intensity is the strongest reinforcement signal to any learning.

    What is wild is lack of factors commonly assumed to be normal.

    E.g. it’s fairly normal to have a timeline of your life available for recall at the moments notice. I, on the other hand, sometimes randomly remember a year I totally forgot I lived through and just sit there overwhelmed with no clue how to deal with the revelation.

    • Hadriscus@jlai.luEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      it’s funny, I don’t classify by date. I couldn’t recall something that happened specifically in 2017 or 2018. But I can recall exactly what happened in a given place. I expect this to be “normal” but I’ve been surprised before by the degree of variability in each one’s mind

      • criticon@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        I am/was like that but I feel like I am not able to create those kinds of memories anymore. I can recall what song was on the radio when I went with my parents to some restaurant 20 years ago and what we ordered and how was the weather but for things from around 5 years ago I don’t recall a lot of stuff that precisely

        • Hadriscus@jlai.luEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Me too, older memories tend to be stronger. I would also expect this to be widely experienced, but can’t say with any certainty. For me it depends on the spatial dimension really. Does the vision of a particular place bring up the memories associated with it ?