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Yeah, man. Memory is cool. When I explain it to people I explain it like 'a path in the forest', you walk along it multiple times and it becomes wider and more clear. Some of those memory-lanes in the brain are the width of high-lanes, since they've been in such constant use. But if you walk along a path once in that forest, and "forget about it", the path that leads to the thought you thought is gone. It fades away, passively. A great way for something to be easily remembered is thinking about it over, and over, and over again. More times than you'd think neccesary. Also, Déja vù fits in somewhere in there. - Stay Curious.
Neuroscientists have an expression: "Neurons that fire together wire together." Same principle. Through repeated use of the same neurons in the same sequence, whatever action was performed (whether it be recalling a memory, signing your name, parallel parking, or using a drug), it's like wearing down a path in a field gradually over time through repeatedly walking the same way. The connection between those particular neurons strengthens, making it much easier to repeat that action in the future. Much like a field becomes easier to walk through when there's a clearing in the grass. Our brains love to find ways of becoming more efficient. So when you repeat the same action over and over again, you brain figures, "This must be important! I will need to know how to do this again in the future!" The neural pathway strengthens, and the action can eventually become habitual. This is part of why addiction involves the hippocampus. Ever noticed that very negative people seem to be habitually unhappy and can't seem to learn to stop complaining? Part of this is because the negative thought patterns have become hard-wired into their brain. It's also because being chronically stressed out results in lots of cortisol exposure, including to memory-forming cells in the hippocampus, which die after long-term exposure to cortisol. This is perhaps a defense mechanism our brains have developed to prevent us from remembering traumatic events, but when a person has unhealthy habits of negative thinking, it tends to backfire, because the cortisol kills hippocampal cells, which causes them to not remember, which results in even more stress over not being able to remember or develop new positive/healthy habits and continued negativity, which results in more cortisol, which results in more cell death, and it continues in a snowball effect until eventually the person becomes stuck in their ways. I wonder if "can't teach an old dog new tricks" has anything to do with the hippocampus degrading over time.
The way that seems to work for me is to repeat alot of times (3-4 minutes maybe) and then focus on something else while repeating a few times every few minutes
My boyfriend had a teacher in high school who never forgot anything. You can literally give her an exact date and she will tell you exactly what she did that day, to the tee. She remembers all of her students name, even from the very beginning of her teaching days. She also once started crying randomly during class because she can't forget about her daughter's death. It's a gift and a curse :( i wrote this before the video talked about it omg
My deepest, darkest fear, short of drowning or suffocating, is forgetting. I already have poor short-term memory, and I'm deeply upset by how much I don't remember from early childhood. In one way, I hold childhood memories close to my heart, but at the same time, it hurts to stop remembering them and step back into stressful reality.
You may be able to access some memories via smells. The smell of freshly baked bread, a cooked cake, mown grass or a cup of coffee might bring back some memories for you. A newly opened tin of paint, an oily rag, might do the same. And some sounds e.g. an old fashioned sewing machine or a gramophone record. A visit to a museum might trigger some memories. Sitting on a verandah or making a bed with freshly washed sheets might be evocative. And some old songs also.
I only remember stuff from when I was 10 years old, before that I can't remember anything. But I really don't care, there's nothing important in my past, no reason to remember it.
When I was babysitting recently, I tried to remember the nursery rhymes my mother sang to me as a child. It brought back some very old memories and a nostalgic feeling that almost brought a tear to my eye. It was unexpected. I also have a fear forgetting and loss of mental functions in general. I hope we have breakthroughs in medicine to help with it.
try writing diary! I have been writing diary since I was in middle school. Everytime I read my diaries, my past self tells my present self what happened on her day! I have been suprised by my past self many times
As somebody with a CS degree, the way memories work strongly reminds me of the way index tables function for RAM, databases, and hard storage. Rather than actually contain the data, it contains the *location* of that data.
From my knowledge, the brain has two indicators to know the importance of a memory 1. emotional value 2. usefulness Emotional value is, for example, that time when you ran away from a bear. The memory is frightening and holds great importance, or that time you found some sweat food and felt happy, as such remembered it. Usefulness is, for example, remembering how to make food because you have done it every day; repetition is the key. If you want to forget something, you should detach the emotional value from it. Usually, the best way to do this is to accept it. Imagine a kid. You don't want him to play with a specific toy. If you play with the toy all the time, he will want it. If you try to avoid it entirely, he will also want it. But if you don't give any special treatment to the toy, he will act the same.
Emotional value can be categorised into explicit memory - things you consciously think about. These are episodic and declarative (important emotional experiences) and usefulness is a biological function to keep us living, which is implicit or unconsciously thought about memory, such as semantic (facts and info) and procedural (how to do things). There are many sub genres into why we keep memories. To forget a memory is also to stop practicing it, stop re-consolidating. You sound like you've done a psych degree!
we regret them because we remember them and their intensity. if we can forget them, it doesn't matter if we do them again or not. Because other people don't remember my embarrassing moments in school just like i don't remember theirs. when a student gets yelled at, he keeps remembering it but if i see him getting yelled at i will be paying attention for a moment but i will forget the intensity of that moment an hour later
@@rocketmanfossel1174 ok? That doesn't change or add to what he said, what they meant is that, as they say "history is set to repeat itself", that saying is about people not studying history as they should, and repeating the mistakes of their predecessors, that's why history exists, to learn what the people of the past have made and improve on it, and to avoid their mistakes, the same way goes with memory, everything we do is what shapes us, and that's because as he said in the video, forgetting isn't losing a memory, it's the memoys become less frequent, and fading slowly, usually never completely fading, but connecting to other memories, and if we forget what we regret, we don't learn from it, that's why most stuff that we regret don't fade like most stuff we encounter everyday, because these stuff are linked to most stuff we do later in. Since we are actively trying to avoid doing it again
"How would it be if you never forgot anything?" I know a friend like this and hers is a horror story. Sexually and physically abused as a child, enduring domestic abuse as she got older, and leading several fire rescue teams into danger in her early 20s, sending one team to their death. And she remembers all of it. The poor girl has total memory recall. Most people see it when she explains to them how much of their house is still standing, or when she helps friends find things they've misplaced. But she also remembers the abuse, the trauma, and the horrors she saw in the fire, all in excruciating detail. And she can't forget any of it. How she's still sane is beyond me. Forgetting things is important.
But to be fair, abuse is the kind of thing that anyone would remember, whether or not you have a superior memory like your friend. You may forget a random bullying incident that you went through but the big stuff sticks. I do feel really bad for your friend though. All those memories must have really messed her up.
@@hittingyouoverthehead I remember things. Idk how it is for others going through trauma but I remember. I mean,, i know.. i know what the drs say about some. I am not those some. I remember details too. Idfk whats wrong w/ me but I guess im flighty. Im trying to be clever w/ my brilliant psychological words. Idk how I ended up such a well rounded person either 🥴. Survive or don't. Someone had to care about me. And it sure as hell wasn't others. Well, others couldve. It just a shameful thing. So, I just moved on. . I raised myself w/ out ever having a real clue about life. I didn't even know how to pay bills through the mail, bank accounts, nada. But in my defense my younger yrs were back when. And yeah. So, I raised myself
@@hittingyouoverthehead I understand what you're saying, but the scenario for people with Hyperthymesia is worse. Nobody forgets trauma, but those people remember it in vivid detail. From the info I have gathered, they can see it like a video being replayed to them, covering every second. It's really a curse
Dunno, i have a very good intuition / imagination in a way that i can daydream hyper realistically. I don't know if that's normal, but sometimes i'll see complex scenarios like multiple growing crystals, water with its dozens of reflections and shadows or microscopic textures that are built like a randomized maze while there're several or even moving light sources and then i can rotate those things and see where and how shadows might change. Yeah and it's definitely a daydream thingy, because it's clearly imposssible to simultaniously see a generic tree several from feet away and feel their specific bark texture on my tongue.
@@savagebot8724 doesnt matter, crazy ppl are everywhere, if no one says nothing this will never change the only place where "god" or "gods" are needed, is in places with war, high poverty, and death, soooo why european countries arent more atheist? cuz the parents inherit the religion/mythology, making the kids ignorants there are 4200 religions and 30.000 gods only 14% of the world is atheist the only god is the milky way in a way the big bang is a father god but thats a theory, not a law sooo until, is just the milky way have u saw those stupid parents making their kids to pray over the table?, FOR THE FOOD? when the parents are the ones who, work, earn money and buy the food................................... or catholic schools WHY THE F ARE THOSE STILL LEGAL? cuz no one cares(tolerant atheist ppl) or are busy doing crazy things like talking to the sky, when the only thing alive up there that we know off is the ISS nothing else there are 300 million habitable planets, the aliens will never come to do an apocalypse end of the world in 2012? my ballls tell to those in 2012 who jumped from a building, good job being ignorant, THOSE WERE ADULTS, F ADULTS, not kids www.livescience.com/14295-failed-doomsday-rapture-suicides.html here learn something ua-cam.com/video/NQ4CUw9RcuA/v-deo.html
@@williamgustavk2184 I kinda agree with almost everything you said except when you said big bang is just a theory. A scientific theory is not a guess. That's what a hypothesis is. In science a theory is an idea backed by evidence or other proven ideas or even mathematical laws. Oh and BTW a law is nothing like a theory. A theory is actually worth much more than a law. A law is just a thing that happens. Usually laws come as mathematical laws which are used to calculate something and sometimes they come as a true thing that's always the case like conservation of energy or entropy. So big bang won't become a law since a law is nothing like a theory and has nothing to do with the big bang. And big bang has evidence by the way so big bang is true.
Recurring negative thoughts, mainly when they exaggerate the actual past experience - i.e. it was not a big deal but in our minds we keep blaming ourselves for that - is one of the symptoms of Social Anxiety Disorder. I did not know why I had these thoughts until someone diagnosed me with it. From that day on, every time I had a negative memory I just thought "eh, it's just part of my disease" and the thoughts started to vanish. Worked for me.
I was looking at my grandma's HS yearbook from 1946, and I said one name outloud and she described him perfectly, without looking at the book. It's pretty amazing.
I’ve undergone ECT, you don’t lose old memories, those all stay intact. You loose short term memory stuff. Like I never forgot old memories, but I have no memory of the two months I was undergoing treatment.
I have had over 40 treatments of ECT and I’ve lost heaps of memories, some bad, some good. I only realise it when my family fill in the blanks. It is very weird.
Hopefully you've benefited from the treatment. I've known 2 people who have had it done. One was my aunt and she improved only marginally. The second was a man whose life was completely changed for the best. He was so grateful to his doctor!
it sounds scary. i wouldn't say i have severe depression, more like extreme dissatisfaction lol. i wouldn't think getting shocked would help enough where the benefits outweigh the risks or even consequences
I'm bipolar and three years ago, while being hospitalised, I had 12 sessions of electroconvulsive therapy. It took six weeks. Normally I have amazing memory, so partial memory loss was very weird for me. I lost most of memories from couple of months before hospital and for these six weeks I almost had no short-term memory at all! Friends took me to the movies couple of times but then even seing posters of these movies didn't ring a bell for me. These memories didn't come back, because twice a week I forgot last couple of days. I know it sounds scary, but after therapy remembering went back to normal and conjoined with proper medicines I felt a lot better. Stay curious! ;)
4:05 "We have at least three different ways of forgetting. The first is what happens when a memory fades over time, so called passive oblivescence, a term you will probably forget." You just gotta love that humor.
Doctor walks into his office and says to his patient “Bad news. You’ve got cancer, and also Alzheimer’s...” Old man replies “Well...at least I don’t have cancer!”
@@BuickGeek24 Hippocampus is the very first thing affected by Alzheimer's, so patients are similar to H.M. mentioned in the video: they can't form new memory.
@@Sentient-potato Yeah it's obviously a joke because the comment that guy made was perfectly clear but it looks like he doesn't know what P.T.S.D means for some reason. Maybe the way he put it in the sentence.
I do want to be able to control this though. I want to know and remember everything about science, i.e. all the formulas, the entire periodic table, every protein in any organism... obviously not any smell or sight I come across. But i'd like to be actively able to tell my brain "okay, this is important to me, remember this." This is why I'll probably get a brain-machine-interface as soon as possible.
You just need to manually do what your brain does: try to recall it as many times as possible to strengthen the connections, and keep recalling those memories all the time... Also called studying.
Passive Oblivescense - Happens because of the connections between brain cells gradually weaken overtime or when the memory is still there but loses the triggers. (Sights, sounds, etc.) Targeted forgetting - Happens when we sleep. In certain stages of sleep, we prune the connections between the cells and erase unneeded memory circuits. Motivated forgetting
I was abused as a little girl, and blocked like 90% of my memories from that time. Watching me talk about the things that happened to me in my therapy videos, is like watching another person. It's weird
I was abused and I don't know if I blocked out any memories but it does seem like things are missing. Or it could be that my memory is just kind of random. Of course all the stress and anxiety I've experienced has probably affected my ability to form memories. TBIs and that small complication during birth may have had an effect as well. I don't even know if I want to remember but I still think about it every now and then. Why does one torture one's self with things one cannot change?
I love how BeSmart uses amazing small details in this video! At 6:58 you can see that he used Michael Jackson's "Off The Wall" album cover which was exactly also released at that year, 1979. Keep up the good work!
Gladly to say, forgetfulness can be another bliss in the light of sweeping away bad memories of the past. Like baptism by pouring holy water upon your head, casting spell, you gonna make yourself sleeping beauty in abandoned forest. The only risk about this is some intruder stepping over the border into your castle and Demolishing all the legacy that should be preserved in your awakening. But those who have no good memories can live like the ignorant. People would say, ignorance is also a type of bliss. So there are two bliss in the world, forgetfulness and ignorance. I must be blessed, thank God!! I have no idea nor no thinking process going on with me.
The Great Big Story uploaded an interview very recently of a woman who was able to retain all of her memory. I am unable to post the link because it won’t appear in the comment section but I highly recommend to give it a watch. Great video by the way Joe.
Why can't you post the link? I've postet links many times before. And even if the whole link doesn't work, you could post the video ID at the end of the link. I'm not trying to troll, I genuinely want to know whether my link-posting ability is a super-power I wasn't aware of.
I forced myself to forget a lot of painful memories and emotions I "cut them off"; it's an active habit but does have side effects. I struggle to remember new events, I have really bad aphasia, and I feel very emotionally disconnected and often empty - but I know it's a lot better than before, and I do have times of happiness. I am certainly more content with my life now but everything comes with a price. Actively forgetting and cuttimg off emotions is 100% possible.
Thank you for explaining memory in a fun and easy way! I love the part at 4:16: "Passive oblivescence (a term you will probably forget)" p.s. trying to use motivated forgetting to forget a bad dream I had this morning
The brain uses CANNABINOID receptors (Cannabis) to erase 98% of useless memory. YES the brain has it own "POT" factory to make "FORGETTING Chemicals". This is why POT kills SHORT TERM memory and why you should NOT smoke POT when in school or college OR YOU WILL FORGET most of it.
Let me tell you a personal story. I watched this about a year ago. Today, i read a book that mentioned abt how brain works, i got confused. So i watched several TED videos, but I only got more confused head. So i get back here and everything becomes clear. I'm not saying that your channel is better than TED, Joe. I'm just saying i like how you explain things and how informatively you pack the informations. I'm forever thanking you for your great job.
Amazing how music can enhance a memory... but listening to that same song over & over again diminishes the effect. .. and yeah sometimes you need to forget- like trying to get over a crush ♥
4:13 “I won’t forget that. I’ll try my best to remember that for as long as possible by recalling the term over and over again, day after day” * 30 seconds later * “No, it’s gone”
I had a conversation the other day about "motivated forgetting" someone asked me about a house I lived in before. A house I lived in for 6 years. And for as hard as I tried I couldn't remember much about it. All that I can remember is it was the time when my parents broke up and me and my whole family fell out. Other than that as hard as I tried I couldn't remember anyy specific details.
I love how informative and yet accessible the videos on this channel are. They really help to bring a lot of what we know or learn down to an accessible level for those of us who don't spend years learning in these particular fields. Also, I find it amusing the mouse found itself in the maze from the Hellraiser movies ;)
I have a diary that I've been writing from 2013 in which I'm briefly writing only the good and fruitful memories of my life.. So that i can rewind those and forcefully forget the bad ones😇
At a youngish age (being 12 years old) I got knocked over by a car, I was said to be dead... Well nine to ten weeks later when I awoke from a coma, even though I thought I was still the same boy I felt a little different being pushed everywhere in a wheel chair. I had lost the ability to move down my right side. Doctors said I was lucky to be alive, but from then on I would be living a life unlike the one I lived before. Understanding the Doctors (but not letting it settle) I wanted to be like my family & friend again. Having two parents whom were as eager as I was to get as close as I could at being 'Normal' again they took me all different places where I were told to move different and even told just to lay on a bed where I was put to sleep (healed) by others. Even though I can't move my right side as freely as a everyday human can I cope with life yet seem to remember allot of things that occurred in my life that other family members can't, yet my brain is injured for life.
I can barely remember what I talked about a minute ago. I am so forgetful. My parents are thinking of legally changing my name to "Forget". I'd probably forget that.
3:22 : me : 시간은 달려가 마치 내 꿈처럼 day and night 잠시 내 목마를 태워 나의 추억들을 밖으로 던진다 이건 마치 각본 없는 drama 생각 못 한 결말 나와 예전의 맘속을 덮었던 먼지가 이제는 내 꿈을 짓눌러 now Throwback 까만 밤들을 집어삼켜 이제는 내가 가져가는 태양의 붉은 빛이 그 담에는 차가운 새벽에 외로이 뜬 달 보며 얼굴을 뒤덮어 심취 검은 색칠하듯 머릿속에 타올라 가 가득해져 물음표가 나를 탓 탓 이제는 보이지 않는 답을 위해서 달려 Running on my mind 하지만 속은 더 답답해 이건 내 내일을 위한 격투 지금 내 상태 마치 어제의 미래를 본 듯해 yeah 미소를 씩 남에게 빌빌거리며 한숨을 픽 지금은 오늘의 나는 날 보는 것처럼 잠깐의 고요가 휭 걸음걸이가 느려질수록 날 부추기는 바람 Ayy, turn up with this 방랑 잠시 동안 내게 잠든 시간을 줘 내 삶에 더해 오답 같은 정답을 내게 show 지금 내게 보이는 것 다 거짓말이야 이건 돌아도 같은 시간 속 머물러있어 시퍼런 하늘 아래 붉게 타는 우리 노래 붉게 타는 우리 노래 앞을 막는 거친 모래바람 타고 날아오는 먹이 사냥하는 고래 그렇다고 먹일 줄 수는 없어 나는 원래 그래 여기저기 돌들이 다 날아오면 칼로 칭칭 다 베어버린 다음 티끌로 만들어 티끌로 태산을 만들어 다 되돌려준다 끓어 올라 주전자에 담긴 화 끌어 올려 거기 화에 갇힌 날 그 화가 꽃이었음 좋겠네 불바다 말고 꽃밭 이었음 해 도로 위에 악마들이 떠들어대네 복잡함의 공기 중에 떠도는 내 뇌 그 뇌를 낚아챈 건 높이 나는 새네 그 새의 등 뒤에 타 나는 비행해 Hah, I'ma look back I'ma look back to the future in fact Let me examine the progress The demons that tried to suffocate the road to success I'ma look forward into the sea Oblivious sea I call "history" Thunderous waves that rage Destroying the maze of memories I wanna see Jeez, and so, should I give up But really, can I give up We live in a time and space A world full of blinds It makes me wanna give up But then again, no I shouldn't give up I feel it inside, don't wanna give up We live in a time and space A world full of blinds Now I've had enough Calling out for help on this carousel Life is like a dare or an open fair I just wanna tell, tell the citadel Dream (dream, dream) Empire, campfire Unpile old files, set fire Rise higher, go wild and chase my dream (dream) That's why I Never give up Never give up 내 말을 들어 난 조금 달라 never give up Never give up Never give up 내일을 보고 조금 더 달려 never give up
I’m not sure what age group this is targeted to but I’m 30 and I’m learning so much! I love how much information you give and the matching animations. I wish school was like this... or maybe it was but I forgot? 😅
I have an impeccable great memory. I remember everything. I remember events and experiences that happened in my life, Who and what in my life, What I learned at school over the years (growing up) including the subjects like science, language arts , math , history ,reading , etc .,full dates including the month , day and year even with dates of history , birthdays , phone number, social security number , address, email , can do math in my head ( sometimes) , things in order , the knowledge of words and it’s meaning , what I observe like a photogenic memory,?everything. I did this at a young age. I’m 20 now . I chose not to forget everything to avoid being behind and lost track of what I’m doing overall in life . That’s why having a good memory is important to me. I’m grateful for having this with me in my life.
I remember working at Subway a few years ago and I had a really bad day where this old guy came in and yelled at me about how our menu was confusing. About a year or two later, I realized I had completely forgotten about the event
Also I had an idea watching this video. The part where 2 memories that were similar became scrambled. Maybe, when you have a similar corresponding situation of sights, smells and sounds and you think you remember this, maybe that explains the "de ja vu" experience?? Thoughts?
Oh man, things make so much sense now!! 🤯 🤯 Every moment of my life is a traumatic event and there are so many people telling me so much useless information every day, so I experience targeted forgetting and motivated forgetting every night while I sleep and that’s why I wake up every morning taking so long to remember who and where I am and everything else about existence.. 😅
Every time we learn something new, we forget something, but not in the way you might think. Every time we learn something new, we forget part of what it it was like to not know it. In learning to read and write, you forget how to be illiterate. When you hone a skill through practice, you forget how and why you did it poorly before. It might seem that losing this sentiment of ignorance in favor of understanding is a good thing, and it often is, but it also makes it harder for the informed to sympathize with the ignorant. This is especially relevant to teachers, whose job it is to teach things their long developed skills to novices. Things that seem simple or second nature to an expert can pose great challenges to beginners, and this lack of mutual understanding can lead to conflict. It's one of the greatest challenges teachers face, in my opinion, to remember what it was like to not know, and meet the students on their level.
I once heard a podcast about the brain and they said that we have some cells in our brain that sort out our memories like when we sort out photos or/and video’s in our phone. They sort out all the useless facts and keep the good facts. Like how we walk and how we talk as we learn when we where toddlers. Also, when we know we had a dream but can’t remember it. Some people that don’t forgot their dreams is still not remembering all the dreams they have. Because we all have a dream state in our sleep every 90 minutes so most of us have 10 dreams every night but mostly don’t remember it or up to two dreams.
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Have you already done a video on sleep paralysis and strange conditions?? Cool vid btw.
Never mind my one this would be a cool vid I think
Gah, you beat me
Passive Oblivesence. There! I didn't forget it! Take that Joe!
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Now I won't forget it either 😂
I couldn't remember the passive part. So I could remember 50% or it.:)
I had forgotten it until he mentioned it. He annoyed my subconscious enough with that taunt... 6 or 7 seconds later I had it. xP
Didn't forget what?
It's *oblivescence
U didn't remembered it properly 😂
Yeah, man. Memory is cool.
When I explain it to people I explain it like 'a path in the forest', you walk along it multiple times and it becomes wider and more clear.
Some of those memory-lanes in the brain are the width of high-lanes, since they've been in such constant use.
But if you walk along a path once in that forest, and "forget about it", the path that leads to the thought you thought is gone. It fades away, passively.
A great way for something to be easily remembered is thinking about it over, and over, and over again. More times than you'd think neccesary.
Also, Déja vù fits in somewhere in there.
- Stay Curious.
This is a great way to explain it!
Thanks.
Though, I just explained it in the same way my favorite Tv show growing up did.
Neuroscientists have an expression: "Neurons that fire together wire together." Same principle. Through repeated use of the same neurons in the same sequence, whatever action was performed (whether it be recalling a memory, signing your name, parallel parking, or using a drug), it's like wearing down a path in a field gradually over time through repeatedly walking the same way. The connection between those particular neurons strengthens, making it much easier to repeat that action in the future. Much like a field becomes easier to walk through when there's a clearing in the grass. Our brains love to find ways of becoming more efficient. So when you repeat the same action over and over again, you brain figures, "This must be important! I will need to know how to do this again in the future!" The neural pathway strengthens, and the action can eventually become habitual. This is part of why addiction involves the hippocampus.
Ever noticed that very negative people seem to be habitually unhappy and can't seem to learn to stop complaining? Part of this is because the negative thought patterns have become hard-wired into their brain. It's also because being chronically stressed out results in lots of cortisol exposure, including to memory-forming cells in the hippocampus, which die after long-term exposure to cortisol. This is perhaps a defense mechanism our brains have developed to prevent us from remembering traumatic events, but when a person has unhealthy habits of negative thinking, it tends to backfire, because the cortisol kills hippocampal cells, which causes them to not remember, which results in even more stress over not being able to remember or develop new positive/healthy habits and continued negativity, which results in more cortisol, which results in more cell death, and it continues in a snowball effect until eventually the person becomes stuck in their ways. I wonder if "can't teach an old dog new tricks" has anything to do with the hippocampus degrading over time.
The way that seems to work for me is to repeat alot of times (3-4 minutes maybe) and then focus on something else while repeating a few times every few minutes
But which part of the brain remembers it is a already used Neuron right?
My boyfriend had a teacher in high school who never forgot anything. You can literally give her an exact date and she will tell you exactly what she did that day, to the tee. She remembers all of her students name, even from the very beginning of her teaching days. She also once started crying randomly during class because she can't forget about her daughter's death. It's a gift and a curse :(
i wrote this before the video talked about it omg
It is a curse. I have too good a memory.
i bet my college professors and faculties does not remember me. not any single one of 'em. 😂
What happened to all of the other replies? There can have only been 2 over the course of 5 years. Both of which have been made in this year
they didnt comment duh lol@@Gaming-pharaoh
She probably wrote it down somewhere to remember it
My deepest, darkest fear, short of drowning or suffocating, is forgetting. I already have poor short-term memory, and I'm deeply upset by how much I don't remember from early childhood. In one way, I hold childhood memories close to my heart, but at the same time, it hurts to stop remembering them and step back into stressful reality.
You may be able to access some memories via smells. The smell of freshly baked bread, a cooked cake, mown grass or a cup of coffee might bring back some memories for you. A newly opened tin of paint, an oily rag, might do the same. And some sounds e.g. an old fashioned sewing machine or a gramophone record. A visit to a museum might trigger some memories. Sitting on a verandah or making a bed with freshly washed sheets might be evocative. And some old songs also.
Everywhere At The End Of Time
I only remember stuff from when I was 10 years old, before that I can't remember anything. But I really don't care, there's nothing important in my past, no reason to remember it.
When I was babysitting recently, I tried to remember the nursery rhymes my mother sang to me as a child. It brought back some very old memories and a nostalgic feeling that almost brought a tear to my eye. It was unexpected. I also have a fear forgetting and loss of mental functions in general. I hope we have breakthroughs in medicine to help with it.
try writing diary! I have been writing diary since I was in middle school. Everytime I read my diaries, my past self tells my present self what happened on her day! I have been suprised by my past self many times
"You'll probably forget Passive Oblivescence"
Me, a neuroscience major student: you're probably right
As somebody with a CS degree, the way memories work strongly reminds me of the way index tables function for RAM, databases, and hard storage. Rather than actually contain the data, it contains the *location* of that data.
so true
Tell me more... ur pov about brain n memory in cs related terms. How it connects
That mouse needs serious therapy..
That mouse was killed after the scientists were done cutting its skull open.
Thought I was listening to Colbert in a different voice when I saw this comment😂
. _"No cartoon mouse was hurt in the production of this animation"_
purely psychosomatic
That mouse met leviathan! And survived! lol
From my knowledge, the brain has two indicators to know the importance of a memory
1. emotional value
2. usefulness
Emotional value is, for example, that time when you ran away from a bear. The memory is frightening and holds great importance, or that time you found some sweat food and felt happy, as such remembered it.
Usefulness is, for example, remembering how to make food because you have done it every day; repetition is the key.
If you want to forget something, you should detach the emotional value from it. Usually, the best way to do this is to accept it. Imagine a kid. You don't want him to play with a specific toy. If you play with the toy all the time, he will want it. If you try to avoid it entirely, he will also want it. But if you don't give any special treatment to the toy, he will act the same.
Emotional value can be categorised into explicit memory - things you consciously think about. These are episodic and declarative (important emotional experiences) and usefulness is a biological function to keep us living, which is implicit or unconsciously thought about memory, such as semantic (facts and info) and procedural (how to do things). There are many sub genres into why we keep memories. To forget a memory is also to stop practicing it, stop re-consolidating. You sound like you've done a psych degree!
If we forget embarrassing moments, we would do them again
we regret them because we remember them and their intensity. if we can forget them, it doesn't matter if we do them again or not. Because other people don't remember my embarrassing moments in school just like i don't remember theirs. when a student gets yelled at, he keeps remembering it but if i see him getting yelled at i will be paying attention for a moment but i will forget the intensity of that moment an hour later
@@rocketmanfossel1174 ok? That doesn't change or add to what he said, what they meant is that, as they say "history is set to repeat itself", that saying is about people not studying history as they should, and repeating the mistakes of their predecessors, that's why history exists, to learn what the people of the past have made and improve on it, and to avoid their mistakes, the same way goes with memory, everything we do is what shapes us, and that's because as he said in the video, forgetting isn't losing a memory, it's the memoys become less frequent, and fading slowly, usually never completely fading, but connecting to other memories, and if we forget what we regret, we don't learn from it, that's why most stuff that we regret don't fade like most stuff we encounter everyday, because these stuff are linked to most stuff we do later in. Since we are actively trying to avoid doing it again
there are benifits of losing, you get to learn your mistakes
I remember the dumbest sh too. Sometimes I wonder if other ppl do. Its ok, bc I remember too tho..
Nice. I have a few that I would like to forget!
"How would it be if you never forgot anything?"
I know a friend like this and hers is a horror story. Sexually and physically abused as a child, enduring domestic abuse as she got older, and leading several fire rescue teams into danger in her early 20s, sending one team to their death. And she remembers all of it. The poor girl has total memory recall. Most people see it when she explains to them how much of their house is still standing, or when she helps friends find things they've misplaced. But she also remembers the abuse, the trauma, and the horrors she saw in the fire, all in excruciating detail. And she can't forget any of it.
How she's still sane is beyond me. Forgetting things is important.
But to be fair, abuse is the kind of thing that anyone would remember, whether or not you have a superior memory like your friend. You may forget a random bullying incident that you went through but the big stuff sticks.
I do feel really bad for your friend though. All those memories must have really messed her up.
@@hittingyouoverthehead I remember things. Idk how it is for others going through trauma but I remember. I mean,, i know.. i know what the drs say about some. I am not those some. I remember details too. Idfk whats wrong w/ me but I guess im flighty. Im trying to be clever w/ my brilliant psychological words. Idk how I ended up such a well rounded person either 🥴. Survive or don't. Someone had to care about me. And it sure as hell wasn't others. Well, others couldve. It just a shameful thing. So, I just moved on. . I raised myself w/ out ever having a real clue about life. I didn't even know how to pay bills through the mail, bank accounts, nada. But in my defense my younger yrs were back when. And yeah. So, I raised myself
@@hittingyouoverthehead I understand what you're saying, but the scenario for people with Hyperthymesia is worse. Nobody forgets trauma, but those people remember it in vivid detail. From the info I have gathered, they can see it like a video being replayed to them, covering every second. It's really a curse
Dunno, i have a very good intuition / imagination in a way that i can daydream hyper realistically.
I don't know if that's normal, but sometimes i'll see complex scenarios like multiple growing crystals, water with its dozens of reflections and shadows or microscopic textures that are built like a randomized maze while there're several or even moving light sources and then i can rotate those things and see where and how shadows might change.
Yeah and it's definitely a daydream thingy, because it's clearly imposssible to simultaniously see a generic tree several from feet away and feel their specific bark texture on my tongue.
Well, was she leading teams or sending teams? Story sounds sketchy to me.
The animation is great.
It really is, which was your favourite bit?
Aspect Science the note-snipping part
I was thinking the same, the amount of hardwork on that. wonder who did it
I like too.
Just a question, what does kabarunahannamitsuchi mean?
You and your team are a godsend, for lack of better words. Great video as always :))
come on dude, 21st century, god is a myth
@@williamgustavk2184 he wrote it on 2019
@@savagebot8724 doesnt matter, crazy ppl are everywhere, if no one says nothing this will never change
the only place where "god" or "gods" are needed, is in places with war, high poverty, and death, soooo why european countries arent more atheist? cuz the parents inherit the religion/mythology, making the kids ignorants
there are 4200 religions and 30.000 gods
only 14% of the world is atheist
the only god is the milky way
in a way the big bang is a father god but thats a theory, not a law sooo until, is just the milky way
have u saw those stupid parents making their kids to pray over the table?, FOR THE FOOD?
when the parents are the ones who, work, earn money and buy the food...................................
or catholic schools WHY THE F ARE THOSE STILL LEGAL? cuz no one cares(tolerant atheist ppl) or are busy doing crazy things like talking to the sky, when the only thing alive up there that we know off is the ISS nothing else
there are 300 million habitable planets, the aliens will never come to do an apocalypse
end of the world in 2012? my ballls
tell to those in 2012 who jumped from a building, good job being ignorant, THOSE WERE ADULTS, F ADULTS, not kids
www.livescience.com/14295-failed-doomsday-rapture-suicides.html
here learn something
ua-cam.com/video/NQ4CUw9RcuA/v-deo.html
@@williamgustavk2184 I kinda agree with almost everything you said except when you said big bang is just a theory. A scientific theory is not a guess. That's what a hypothesis is. In science a theory is an idea backed by evidence or other proven ideas or even mathematical laws. Oh and BTW a law is nothing like a theory. A theory is actually worth much more than a law. A law is just a thing that happens. Usually laws come as mathematical laws which are used to calculate something and sometimes they come as a true thing that's always the case like conservation of energy or entropy. So big bang won't become a law since a law is nothing like a theory and has nothing to do with the big bang. And big bang has evidence by the way so big bang is true.
@@williamgustavk2184 god is real
I need to master motivated forgetting, man. Too many negative memories keep me up at night.
slimkt just let it go life will be better trust me
Same
+slimkt
Same here
Bing Bong yes i am actually thx for noticing :p
Recurring negative thoughts, mainly when they exaggerate the actual past experience - i.e. it was not a big deal but in our minds we keep blaming ourselves for that - is one of the symptoms of Social Anxiety Disorder. I did not know why I had these thoughts until someone diagnosed me with it. From that day on, every time I had a negative memory I just thought "eh, it's just part of my disease" and the thoughts started to vanish. Worked for me.
I was looking at my grandma's HS yearbook from 1946, and I said one name outloud and she described him perfectly, without looking at the book. It's pretty amazing.
This guy seems like the popular smart kid from high school. Love him!
great video, only complaint is that it should have been titled 'fuhgeddaboudit!'
Also, they referred to Holmes as if he were a real guy lol
Wait! What was that?
I read this with the appropriate hand gestures
Joseph Nicolosi HAHAHAHAHA
@@christianheichel it means forget about it
I’ve undergone ECT, you don’t lose old memories, those all stay intact. You loose short term memory stuff. Like I never forgot old memories, but I have no memory of the two months I was undergoing treatment.
I have had over 40 treatments of ECT and I’ve lost heaps of memories, some bad, some good. I only realise it when my family fill in the blanks. It is very weird.
Hopefully you've benefited from the treatment. I've known 2 people who have had it done. One was my aunt and she improved only marginally. The second was a man whose life was completely changed for the best. He was so grateful to his doctor!
wholeNwon ECT really helped me. I had such bad depression that I wasn’t responding to medication or therapy. ECT was the only thing that worked.
it sounds scary. i wouldn't say i have severe depression, more like extreme dissatisfaction lol. i wouldn't think getting shocked would help enough where the benefits outweigh the risks or even consequences
There's a so weird episode called memory. Cara Deliza starred in 40 episodes of this show.
"That painful embarrassing memory from high school."
*GEE, THANKS JOE! IMMA GO TAKE MY MEDS NOW!*
oh my gosh ACTUALLY THANK YOU to make me remember to take my meds!! XD
@@tornadodee148 LMAOOO
@@kiyominyo7521 yeah that time I had forgotten to take my meds and @Billaxle reminded me. thanks bro. xD
@@kiyominyo7521 shoot how do you tag someone if its not @? xD
I'm bipolar and three years ago, while being hospitalised, I had 12 sessions of electroconvulsive therapy. It took six weeks. Normally I have amazing memory, so partial memory loss was very weird for me. I lost most of memories from couple of months before hospital and for these six weeks I almost had no short-term memory at all! Friends took me to the movies couple of times but then even seing posters of these movies didn't ring a bell for me. These memories didn't come back, because twice a week I forgot last couple of days. I know it sounds scary, but after therapy remembering went back to normal and conjoined with proper medicines I felt a lot better. Stay curious! ;)
I absolutely love how the all the videos here are made: from the visual side to the presenter's voice and body language. Thank you and keep it up!
Man, the production value of this vid is amazing.. editing, animation, writing.. great job, you guys!
Didn't remember until about halfway through that I had already watched this video about a year ago
4:05 "We have at least three different ways of forgetting. The first is what happens when a memory fades over time, so called passive oblivescence, a term you will probably forget."
You just gotta love that humor.
Doctor walks into his office and says to his patient
“Bad news. You’ve got cancer, and also Alzheimer’s...”
Old man replies
“Well...at least I don’t have cancer!”
XD
@winsley ocampo Alzehimer's syndrome is the disease where you forget stuff.The man forgot he had cancer
@@Vader4499 And also affects the rest of the brain besides just memory
winsley ocampo I diagnose u with the big dumb. U must have a smooth brain to not comprehend the very simple joke lol
@@BuickGeek24 Hippocampus is the very first thing affected by Alzheimer's, so patients are similar to H.M. mentioned in the video: they can't form new memory.
That mouse has some serious PTSD
Poor mouse we should raise money for all future mice with PTSD in memory of that mouse.
Chris Heichel do you know what ptsd is
@@Sentient-potato I know what P.T.S.D means it means "People transmit sexual diseases" it is a tragic thing to happen to someone.
Neon _Dragon18 is that a joke?
Also I disagree with my comment from not even a week ago lol
@@Sentient-potato Yeah it's obviously a joke because the comment that guy made was perfectly clear but it looks like he doesn't know what P.T.S.D means for some reason. Maybe the way he put it in the sentence.
It always baffled me when I had vivid dream at night and the detail was so clear, only to forget like 15min after waking up
I do want to be able to control this though. I want to know and remember everything about science, i.e. all the formulas, the entire periodic table, every protein in any organism... obviously not any smell or sight I come across. But i'd like to be actively able to tell my brain "okay, this is important to me, remember this."
This is why I'll probably get a brain-machine-interface as soon as possible.
Chribit Easier ways to do it, learn the method of loci
Comic Sans method of loci?
Comic Sans I'm interested as well haha
Chribit google it or read the book moon walking with Einstein
You just need to manually do what your brain does: try to recall it as many times as possible to strengthen the connections, and keep recalling those memories all the time... Also called studying.
Passive Oblivescense - Happens because of the connections between brain cells gradually weaken overtime or when the memory is still there but loses the triggers. (Sights, sounds, etc.)
Targeted forgetting - Happens when we sleep. In certain stages of sleep, we prune the connections between the cells and erase unneeded memory circuits.
Motivated forgetting
I was abused as a little girl, and blocked like 90% of my memories from that time. Watching me talk about the things that happened to me in my therapy videos, is like watching another person. It's weird
I was abused and I don't know if I blocked out any memories but it does seem like things are missing. Or it could be that my memory is just kind of random. Of course all the stress and anxiety I've experienced has probably affected my ability to form memories. TBIs and that small complication during birth may have had an effect as well. I don't even know if I want to remember but I still think about it every now and then. Why does one torture one's self with things one cannot change?
Even though there are awkward and regretting memories, you should always embrace them and it is completely natural to forget things now and then
That animation is awesome, the mouse looks like it has a Vietnam flashbacks 😂
XD
@Shock ً cos this is the Internet.
@Shock ً Bc people think making jokes about serious situations is funny, especially on the internet where they can hide behind a screen
I mean, these comments are givin me EATEOT Vibes, but...
Could i just say that the mouse was at stage 5 of dementia?
I love how BeSmart uses amazing small details in this video! At 6:58 you can see that he used Michael Jackson's "Off The Wall" album cover which was exactly also released at that year, 1979. Keep up the good work!
I thought this was Ted-Ed for the first 10 seconds of the video...
Gladly to say, forgetfulness can be another bliss in the light of sweeping away bad memories of the past. Like baptism by pouring holy water upon your head, casting spell, you gonna make yourself sleeping beauty in abandoned forest. The only risk about this is some intruder stepping over the border into your castle and Demolishing all the legacy that should be preserved in your awakening. But those who have no good memories can live like the ignorant. People would say, ignorance is also a type of bliss. So there are two bliss in the world, forgetfulness and ignorance. I must be blessed, thank God!! I have no idea nor no thinking process going on with me.
The Great Big Story uploaded an interview very recently of a woman who was able to retain all of her memory. I am unable to post the link because it won’t appear in the comment section but I highly recommend to give it a watch.
Great video by the way Joe.
General S. Patton thanks patton
Why can't you post the link? I've postet links many times before.
And even if the whole link doesn't work, you could post the video ID at the end of the link.
I'm not trying to troll, I genuinely want to know whether my link-posting ability is a super-power I wasn't aware of.
Check out
The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory - Aleksandr R. Luria
Dragon Curve Enthusiast I honestly have no idea why I was not able to post a link, it could have been a bug but that is just a hunch.
InHumano XY Thanks for the reference.
I forced myself to forget a lot of painful memories and emotions I "cut them off"; it's an active habit but does have side effects. I struggle to remember new events, I have really bad aphasia, and I feel very emotionally disconnected and often empty - but I know it's a lot better than before, and I do have times of happiness. I am certainly more content with my life now but everything comes with a price. Actively forgetting and cuttimg off emotions is 100% possible.
What happens in the brain when people have photographic memories?
Tyrese Okeke depends on the type of memories, I only know one and it's for personal memories: hyperthymesia
ApolloAwe okay good to know, thanks!
There is no such thing as photographic memory. It is a myth.
binky2819 but what about that guy who can draw things he remembers even if it is he first time he has seen it he can draw it just from memory?
Tyrese Okeke it's not actual. He's drawing from his memory which could be nothing like a photograph. His imagination will fill in all the gaps.
Thank you for explaining memory in a fun and easy way! I love the part at 4:16: "Passive oblivescence (a term you will probably forget)"
p.s. trying to use motivated forgetting to forget a bad dream I had this morning
The brain uses CANNABINOID receptors (Cannabis) to erase 98% of useless memory. YES the brain has it own "POT" factory to make "FORGETTING Chemicals". This is why POT kills SHORT TERM memory and why you should NOT smoke POT when in school or college OR YOU WILL FORGET most of it.
I forgot I even watched this video, youtube told me I watched it...
Let me tell you a personal story.
I watched this about a year ago. Today, i read a book that mentioned abt how brain works, i got confused. So i watched several TED videos, but I only got more confused head. So i get back here and everything becomes clear.
I'm not saying that your channel is better than TED, Joe. I'm just saying i like how you explain things and how informatively you pack the informations.
I'm forever thanking you for your great job.
Both channels are the same thing. @It'sOkayToBeSmart, is more "easier" to understand the concept, 'cause you have animation.
Amazing how music can enhance a memory... but listening to that same song over & over again diminishes the effect. .. and yeah sometimes you need to forget- like trying to get over a crush ♥
I happen to love forgetting. I look forward to growing and moving forward. I know it’s my trauma response but, I do hold onto the good.
My memory can forget so I can forget those times that I embarrassed myself.
Lucky!
My mom remembers everything I ever did and won't let me forget.
8:18 "An *elementary* part of solving this great mystery we call life"
Everyone saw it. I was waiting for him to wink at the camera.
4:13 “I won’t forget that. I’ll try my best to remember that for as long as possible by recalling the term over and over again, day after day”
* 30 seconds later *
“No, it’s gone”
I had a conversation the other day about "motivated forgetting" someone asked me about a house I lived in before. A house I lived in for 6 years. And for as hard as I tried I couldn't remember much about it. All that I can remember is it was the time when my parents broke up and me and my whole family fell out. Other than that as hard as I tried I couldn't remember anyy specific details.
7:35 These memories can be stripped of their strengths over time, via the identification, exploration, and understanding of their components.
Last time I was this early, H.M. could still make experiences memories
Oh boy, making me take a trip down memory lane! That's okay though, I'm glad I can still remember so many things from my past.
I love how informative and yet accessible the videos on this channel are. They really help to bring a lot of what we know or learn down to an accessible level for those of us who don't spend years learning in these particular fields. Also, I find it amusing the mouse found itself in the maze from the Hellraiser movies ;)
I have a diary that I've been writing from 2013 in which I'm briefly writing only the good and fruitful memories of my life.. So that i can rewind those and forcefully forget the bad ones😇
At a youngish age (being 12 years old) I got knocked over by a car, I was said to be dead... Well nine to ten weeks later when I awoke from a coma, even though I thought I was still the same boy I felt a little different being pushed everywhere in a wheel chair.
I had lost the ability to move down my right side. Doctors said I was lucky to be alive, but from then on I would be living a life unlike the one I lived before.
Understanding the Doctors (but not letting it settle) I wanted to be like my family & friend again. Having two parents whom were as eager as I was to get as close as I could at being 'Normal' again they took me all different places where I were told to move different and even told just to lay on a bed where I was put to sleep (healed) by others.
Even though I can't move my right side as freely as a everyday human can I cope with life yet seem to remember allot of things that occurred in my life that other family members can't, yet my brain is injured for life.
Sometimes memories don’t work. I often forget to remember. Other times I remember to forget.
This was an amazing explanation of the topic. Thank you! Its not always easy to explain and understand complex subjects but you did great!
This channel takes the cake.
I will never forget this........
a person23675 that forgetting is needed.
did u forget this?
the best channel ever seen for entertainment learning thank you
Oh shoot, I've been living my whole life remembering random trivia, my attic can barely fit anything
3:00 That mouse needs to learn how not to dwell on negative experiences...lol
I can barely remember what I talked about a minute ago. I am so forgetful. My parents are thinking of legally changing my name to "Forget". I'd probably forget that.
ditto friend, and i likely won't remember reading your comment, or replying to it, by the end of the week lol
@@professorbaxtercarelessdre1075 do you remember
@@1tsjaboisam973 only thanks to it being in my youtube comments lol. i remember it existing once i see it. in a few years though i doubt i will
3:22 :
me : 시간은 달려가
마치 내 꿈처럼 day and night
잠시 내 목마를 태워
나의 추억들을 밖으로 던진다
이건 마치 각본 없는 drama
생각 못 한 결말 나와
예전의 맘속을 덮었던 먼지가
이제는 내 꿈을 짓눌러 now
Throwback 까만 밤들을 집어삼켜
이제는 내가 가져가는 태양의 붉은 빛이
그 담에는 차가운 새벽에
외로이 뜬 달 보며 얼굴을 뒤덮어 심취
검은 색칠하듯
머릿속에 타올라 가 가득해져
물음표가 나를 탓 탓
이제는 보이지 않는 답을 위해서 달려
Running on my mind 하지만 속은 더 답답해
이건 내 내일을 위한 격투
지금 내 상태 마치 어제의 미래를 본 듯해 yeah
미소를 씩 남에게 빌빌거리며 한숨을 픽
지금은 오늘의 나는 날 보는 것처럼
잠깐의 고요가 휭
걸음걸이가 느려질수록
날 부추기는 바람
Ayy, turn up with this 방랑
잠시 동안 내게 잠든 시간을 줘
내 삶에 더해 오답 같은 정답을 내게 show
지금 내게 보이는 것
다 거짓말이야 이건
돌아도 같은 시간 속 머물러있어
시퍼런 하늘 아래 붉게 타는 우리 노래
붉게 타는 우리 노래 앞을 막는 거친 모래바람
타고 날아오는 먹이 사냥하는 고래 그렇다고 먹일 줄 수는 없어
나는 원래 그래
여기저기 돌들이 다
날아오면 칼로 칭칭 다 베어버린 다음
티끌로 만들어 티끌로 태산을 만들어
다 되돌려준다
끓어 올라 주전자에 담긴 화
끌어 올려 거기 화에 갇힌 날
그 화가 꽃이었음 좋겠네
불바다 말고 꽃밭 이었음 해
도로 위에 악마들이 떠들어대네
복잡함의 공기 중에 떠도는 내 뇌
그 뇌를 낚아챈 건 높이 나는 새네
그 새의 등 뒤에 타 나는 비행해
Hah, I'ma look back
I'ma look back to the future in fact
Let me examine the progress
The demons that tried to suffocate the road to success
I'ma look forward into the sea
Oblivious sea I call "history"
Thunderous waves that rage
Destroying the maze of memories I wanna see
Jeez, and so, should I give up
But really, can I give up
We live in a time and space
A world full of blinds
It makes me wanna give up
But then again, no I shouldn't give up
I feel it inside, don't wanna give up
We live in a time and space
A world full of blinds
Now I've had enough
Calling out for help on this carousel
Life is like a dare or an open fair
I just wanna tell, tell the citadel
Dream (dream, dream)
Empire, campfire
Unpile old files, set fire
Rise higher, go wild and chase my dream (dream)
That's why I
Never give up
Never give up
내 말을 들어 난 조금 달라 never give up
Never give up
Never give up
내일을 보고 조금 더 달려 never give up
I’m not sure what age group this is targeted to but I’m 30 and I’m learning so much! I love how much information you give and the matching animations. I wish school was like this... or maybe it was but I forgot? 😅
I love this so much, I learn lots of things every video!
He who forgets, will be destined to remember.
Nothingman - PJ
I have an impeccable great memory. I remember everything. I remember events and experiences that happened in my life, Who and what in my life, What I learned at school over the years (growing up) including the subjects like science, language arts , math , history ,reading , etc .,full dates including the month , day and year even with dates of history , birthdays , phone number, social security number , address, email , can do math in my head ( sometimes) , things in order , the knowledge of words and it’s meaning , what I observe like a photogenic memory,?everything. I did this at a young age. I’m 20 now . I chose not to forget everything to avoid being behind and lost track of what I’m doing overall in life . That’s why having a good memory is important to me. I’m grateful for having this with me in my life.
Nice Hellraiser 2 reference!!!
Yeah, I was about to post a comment on that. Well spotted sir :)
Ditto
If only I could remember to stop forgetting to remember things!
When I remember how something tastes, I can still taste it....
The way you started the topic and then conclude it is simply speechless. I would love to know how you think like that to make videos like that
Wow this is so cool!!!
I had to come back to this 3 years later, because I couldn't remember why we forget. 🤔😆
Me hearing the words "Sherlock Holmes" waiting for him to bring up House M.D.: he's not gonna bring up House
*House M.D. gets mentioned*
Me: :0
I remember working at Subway a few years ago and I had a really bad day where this old guy came in and yelled at me about how our menu was confusing. About a year or two later, I realized I had completely forgotten about the event
Also I had an idea watching this video. The part where 2 memories that were similar became scrambled. Maybe, when you have a similar corresponding situation of sights, smells and sounds and you think you remember this, maybe that explains the "de ja vu" experience??
Thoughts?
2:49 Leviathan! And the Hellraiser "gong"...nice touch! 😆
listen to "remind me to forget" by kygo for motivational forgetting
Oh man, things make so much sense now!! 🤯 🤯
Every moment of my life is a traumatic event and there are so many people telling me so much useless information every day, so I experience targeted forgetting and motivated forgetting every night while I sleep and that’s why I wake up every morning taking so long to remember who and where I am and everything else about existence.. 😅
Spread the Gospel!
As a 10 year-old i find this absolutely fascinating!!
I remembered the passive part, but oblivescence is kind of new word for me so didn't quite remembered it completely😁
🎈
Every time we learn something new, we forget something, but not in the way you might think.
Every time we learn something new, we forget part of what it it was like to not know it. In learning to read and write, you forget how to be illiterate. When you hone a skill through practice, you forget how and why you did it poorly before. It might seem that losing this sentiment of ignorance in favor of understanding is a good thing, and it often is, but it also makes it harder for the informed to sympathize with the ignorant. This is especially relevant to teachers, whose job it is to teach things their long developed skills to novices. Things that seem simple or second nature to an expert can pose great challenges to beginners, and this lack of mutual understanding can lead to conflict. It's one of the greatest challenges teachers face, in my opinion, to remember what it was like to not know, and meet the students on their level.
Cool Vid!! Really liked the braincells background that cept expanding!
Me to my brain - Have I watched this video?
That mouse sure looked tasty! -Scratchy The Eagle
Keep your talons to yourself!
America From Scratch
rip mouse
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When u think about it, some of the bad memories I want to keep because its a learning experience
i've found it isn't remembering something that's bad, its the feelings of pain and regret from remembering those things that i'd rather do without
Three elephants? THREE elephants?! How DARE you!
Shilag I was saying the same!!!! It's four elephant's!!!
5:00 But they are 5
Oh, he dared!
calm down greta
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Absolutely amazing video. Hope I can remember it. Please keep up the great work.
1:26 oh no, your gills are showing. I hope I'll be able to erase this image from my brain soon
Why can’t I just choose what I forget and/or remember? Goddamnit brain! 😂
Now, now let's all say thank you to our hippocampus for teaching us everything we know
How do i activate my memory?
My memory only activates when there are no exams.
I was going to make an illuminating and irrefutable comment, but forgot what it was while watching your video. Keep up the good work, I think.
Passive Obliblasdance?
IDK I forgot
Passive Obliviation.
@@John_C_J you forgot
That last words struck me " Solving the great mystery of life " 🌀
i already know a person who doesnt forget anything, my gf.
😂
I once heard a podcast about the brain and they said that we have some cells in our brain that sort out our memories like when we sort out photos or/and video’s in our phone. They sort out all the useless facts and keep the good facts. Like how we walk and how we talk as we learn when we where toddlers.
Also, when we know we had a dream but can’t remember it. Some people that don’t forgot their dreams is still not remembering all the dreams they have. Because we all have a dream state in our sleep every 90 minutes so most of us have 10 dreams every night but mostly don’t remember it or up to two dreams.
I really tought he would talk about Sheldon from Big Bang Theory
Fabio Alves Show That show is utter garbage