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Originally Posted by SoupDragon
My father died a few weeks ago and although not connected, for the last few days I have had strong memories of someone (unpleasant) I last saw 32 years ago.
The person from 32 years ago is very strong in my head right now - even googled him and have an up to date image right there in my brain (why on earth did I do that!).
Everything is mixed up in my head and at the moment, the events that happened 32 years ago are clearer than my own father in my head. Like I saw that man more recently than I saw my father.
My question really is, how do we know if a memory was from last week or 20 years ago? How are they represented to us in terms of date order and is there a different impact from a recent memory versus an older one. Actually on second thoughts, I am not sure I know what I am asking, everything is just a little jumbled up right now. Can anyone unjumble me?
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soup, I don't know the answer to your question, but I suppose the context of the memory puts it in a time frame.
I also want to share with you that when my father died, I had all kinds of memories surface for quite a while afterwards. Not unpleasant memories. So I wondered, where had they been all this time?
Our minds are so amazing.
Where "are" the memories until they are evoked? Where do the come from? How are they evoked? What is that process? So amazing!