Do you have a selective memory?
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I'm lucky I have any memory at all anymore for some reason. It's getting worse by the year already. My memory is not unlike that of a goldfish.
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Cat have a memory that is 200 times more retentative then a dogs.  The feline uses his/hers memory for what he regards as usful functions.  So a cats memory is quite selective.
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Brilliant question!\n\nI was just talking about this with a friend. You have to savor the experience! Ok bear with me here......\n\nHow many times have you looked forward to something...prepared for a big day? Trained for that marathon? Practiced non stop for the big game? Prepared for that huge presentation at work? Readied yourself for the trip overseas? \n\nWhen it is all over.....why do you remember it???? Why is the memory even there? Because of the process we went through to get to that experience will always be instilled in our head. \n\nBut even the memory is not as important as the PROCESS in getting there. Forming the initial idea. Watching it grow from a seed planted in your head to a bud as it starts to thrive and build. Taking that idea and making it real. Attacking the necessary steps to make it happen. Knowing you are aware of those elements around you that are affected and dealing with each and ever obstacle one by one and you encounter it. Taking the leap.....going for it. Not looking back.....forgin onward. So you either fail or succeed. And at times you are lucky enough to feel a bit of both. Lucky you say? You bet!! Because look what happens......you experienced it and learned and then VOILA......the memory enters the picture. \n\nThe memory is the reminder of what success we can draw upon in the future and what failures we must learn from in our past.  Both are important.......But the experience creates the memory. You must have the knowledge, before having the foresight.
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Your body sends signals to your brain, which then sends signals back to your body telling it what to do. All this happens in a split second. This page also explains what type of memory you have. There are all different types of memory that remember certain things by the way they look, smell, feel, etc. etc. I hope you enjoy this web site, and take time to look at all of the other pages, such as Disorders of the Brain and Parts of the Brain. Please refer to our Resources and Credits page, as well as our Fun and Facts page.
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Yes.\n\nI mean no.\n\nI mean I can't remember.
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Yes.  I had a repressed memory that only came back last summer.\n\nBut sometimes I do wonder if it was a real memory?\n\nBut that's just because I wish it hadn't happened
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Usually when i daydream or recall memory it is usually in third person also. Most of the time when i recall memory it is to think to myself "What if i did this" or "Maybe it wouldn't have happened that way IF" its nothing to be worried about. deep down, subconciously you probably want to see yourself as others saw you at the moment in time.
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I really want to answer with "I don't remember" but I figured that though slightly funny it wouldn't be too nice.  I did find several sites with tests, try this one:\nhttp://quiz.ivillage.com/health/tests/shorttermmemory.htm
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I remember being 2, and in a pre-school in New York. I remember quite a bit, such as the teacher, and some of the children. \n\nI don't really remember prior to that, but im sure I could if I were to really try...\n\nI always believed that we have the ability to remember from the womb.\n\n< peace >
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1) Yes, sometimes freaks me out but I was told it's a form of self hypnosis.\n\n2) *sigh* Yes, in fact just a few minutes ago. I think for some reason if you go back out of the room & try to retrace your steps while you're trying to remember what you were doing, for some reason it will trigger the memory.\n\n3) Yes, too many times. Have no idea what that's all about.\n\n4) I've done this too and usually I don't go back and get the right stuff unless its something really important.
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if you link the material to something you know well, you're more likely to remember it. Also, repeat to yourself what you're hearing as you write it and look over it a few hours later. It's all about repetition.
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short-term memory problems.
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I read somewhere that your neurons in your brain fire, and register the information, then they fire again, registering the same information milliseconds later.  Your brain interprets this as a faint memory.
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I think this refers to a kind of memory more usually called "photographic memory" or "eidetic imagery." People who have this kind of memory can memorise a picture in all its detail and answer questions about it days later. \n\nThere is an illiterately titled site, "How good is you [sic] memory?" See there for a test of picture memory.
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probably a pretty insane amount.\n\njust think of every little detail of your life that you can remember, and you'll know what i'm talking about.
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The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
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yes you can.  the olfactory system in the brain has the longest memory of all.  think back to when you were little and try to remember smells from them and you will smell them again.