• Twinklebreeze @lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    11 months ago

    I don’t have bad memory at all. I have no control over what I remember, though. Sometimes I will see something and know that I will remember this useless information.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      11 months ago

      And sometimes someone important will introduce themselves, and I will very badly want to remember their name, but it’s gone before we’re done talking.

      • nicetomeetyouIMVEGAN@lemmings.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        I literally write down all names in notes. I’m so incredibly bad with name recall that I forget names of people I worked with and known for years. That app is a life saver and I open it a lot.

        I also use the trick to imagine their name as something completely over the top absurd. Which works because the image is so much easier to recall. For example Karen would be then behind the wheel of a Ford Ka running on its back tires. A Ka Run… But this is very difficult to do in the moment.

        Otherwise yeah I can lose names at any moment of anything at any point in time. People, towns, events, brands, objects, concepts… Just gone. My mind went passed it with a 1000 miles a minute and forgot to grab it.

    • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      11 months ago

      If the subject comes with a good feeling it will be remembered. If it comes with a neutral to bad feeling it doesn’t even gets saved.

      • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        If the subject comes with a good bad feeling it will be remembered. If it comes with a neutral to bad good feeling it doesn’t even gets saved.

        FTFY.

        I might be having a different problem…

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Good point. I suppose that goes for most things like old commercials that we saw all the time. What’s weird for me is that I have a near photographic memory for some movies, even if I’ve seen them only once, and then other movies I will completely forget that I’ve even seen them. Like why? What’s the distinction for my brain?

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      Short for Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris, a made-up game proposed as a follow-up to Doom by people shitting about on Usenet. Carmack thought it was funny and that’s that.

  • TDCN@feddit.dkEnglish
    16·
    11 months ago

    I can remember obscure things from almost any point during my life, but I can’t remember a person’s name even when I’m told less than 2 minutes ago regardles

      • Wojwo@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        I’m 44 and I can remember my best friends phone number from 5th grade. Couldn’t remember it when I was in 5th grade and I can’t remember any actually useful numbers today, but I know that one. A guy named Jeff has it now. He’s nice.

      • Wojwo@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Yup. One time I used it for a password. Then forgot that it’s what I used for the password, until I reset the password to something else… But I still remember the key.

  • Ananääs@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    12·
    11 months ago

    I remember the phone number of an older guy i talked online for like a week when I was 13 or so, 20 years ago. Thanks brain. Also thanks for reminding me about all the embarassing/shameful stuff i’ve done over the years. Why not replace those slots with, dunno, SOMETHING USEFUL!

    • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      You know I’ve always wondered, since memories can be changed as they are accessed (memory is absolutely fascinating, and very very very flawed), is it possible to knowingly reprogram your own memories to change your own subjective history?

      I’ve been trying but I always forget that’s what I’m supposed to be doing… 🫤

  • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    11 months ago

    Our disk defragmentation never runs and it’s always full. So it’s slow at I/O but with enough time we can recover data from a long time ago.

    • Madlaine@feddit.deEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      And whoever implemented our garbage collector must have taken it quite literal, without looking up what it means

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    ADHD is super fun. I remember even the smallest details about the most obscure things, and the most random stuff will remind me of that. I also usually can think about 3-4 things at a time! So cool.

    What isn’t cool is that, I don’t get to pick either. Random details? Not sure which ones are going in and not coming out… Thoughts? Plenty, but I have no choice in what I’m thinking about.

    It’s a fun little game of whack a mole, trying to get my brain to do what needs to be done.

  • Hegar@kbin.social
    4·
    11 months ago

    I heard that because working or short term memory is so deficient, the brain retasks to long term memory more often.