Our deep and precise ability to recall memories and our lack of recall for other things we deem unimportant are just another paradox to add to the complicated nature of our personalities.
I find the easiest way to describe it to people who cannot fathom what having good memory is like by saying that it is the same as having bad memory, only that I cannot choose WHAT I can't forget.
Yep balance is a law of the universe. It’s all give and take. The universe gives us excellent selective memory, and takes my ability to remember where I placed my phone 30 seconds ago.
I tend to remember the energy of meaningful events and people, how I felt, what lessons I learned, and how it connected back into everything else I knew. Little details about what the weather was like or who wore what… not so much.
I remember when I was 9 months old. Can draw out the floor plan and furniture placement including the decorations in the room, the type of fabric on the drapes, the pattern on my crib sheet. At 10 months old we moved to a different house and I can remember that room in the same vivid detail. But I don't remember the move.
my memory is elephantine and i enjoy the look people often give me when i recount something unexpected. That said, i have the hardest times remembering names. Names are my kryptonite!
Yes - I think we remember 'lessons' well - the events that we remember so well don't have to be dramatic - we can remember quite small events too as long as they tell us something (becoming part of a developing narrative or perhaps challenging an existing narrative.) For instance, I remember an event with someone I know who has very quick reading skills - we went to pick up another friend from a set of apartment blocks we had not visited before. We weren't sure which building the other person was in - he went to read the names by the door on one of the blocks and almost immediately came away saying "they don't live there." I was curious and checked - I saw that there were two columns of names and my friend had read only one side very quickly - but the name was in the second column. This happened over 20 years ago and I think it is fixed as a lesson - my friend did indeed read very fast but sometimes he read too fast.
Our deep and precise ability to recall memories and our lack of recall for other things we deem unimportant are just another paradox to add to the complicated nature of our personalities.
I find the easiest way to describe it to people who cannot fathom what having good memory is like by saying that it is the same as having bad memory, only that I cannot choose WHAT I can't forget.
The INFJs remember also the birthdays 🎆 of others people
But forgets their names lol
Yep balance is a law of the universe. It’s all give and take. The universe gives us excellent selective memory, and takes my ability to remember where I placed my phone 30 seconds ago.
yes, it's the same for me too...I even have some vivid childhood memories where I kind of remember the scene and even the feeling.
Excellent insight that the memories that flood your conscious mind are all themed and relevant to your perceived life trajectory
I tend to remember the energy of meaningful events and people, how I felt, what lessons I learned, and how it connected back into everything else I knew. Little details about what the weather was like or who wore what… not so much.
I remember when I was 9 months old. Can draw out the floor plan and furniture placement including the decorations in the room, the type of fabric on the drapes, the pattern on my crib sheet. At 10 months old we moved to a different house and I can remember that room in the same vivid detail. But I don't remember the move.
my memory is elephantine and i enjoy the look people often give me when i recount something unexpected. That said, i have the hardest times remembering names. Names are my kryptonite!
Same! I can’t remember names.
I think you are very smart & helpful for humans. TY so much for offering us free assistance.🙏❤️🔥🙏💞🙏
Yes - I think we remember 'lessons' well - the events that we remember so well don't have to be dramatic - we can remember quite small events too as long as they tell us something (becoming part of a developing narrative or perhaps challenging an existing narrative.) For instance, I remember an event with someone I know who has very quick reading skills - we went to pick up another friend from a set of apartment blocks we had not visited before. We weren't sure which building the other person was in - he went to read the names by the door on one of the blocks and almost immediately came away saying "they don't live there." I was curious and checked - I saw that there were two columns of names and my friend had read only one side very quickly - but the name was in the second column. This happened over 20 years ago and I think it is fixed as a lesson - my friend did indeed read very fast but sometimes he read too fast.
Does anyone else "remember" things they never knew that they knew?
Insights from the collective unconscious?
Too often.