First thing you can remember

pourmeanother · 11-06-2009, 01:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

Makes sense, but why only isolated incidents of mundane activities? Why not a lot more than you typically hear about or personally remember?

It just seems strange how a person can, for example, remember drinking from a red cup and not remember eating from a blue plate when both experiences may be equally mundane in an adult's perspective, but significant in a child's.
I just use that example as a comparison to the memory patterns you see and how they seem randomly selective.

It's interesting.

That is interesting- and I never really thought of that. I don't have an answer, but the stuff that gets stored in our long-term memory is stuff that's important- and stuff that's checked in on more often than not (maintaining the neural connections). There wouldn't be neural connections to these random isolated events when we're 3, 4, 5 unless they were somehow important.

Either that, or maybe the things we're remembering are actually dreams, and no reality- or something like that.

That reminds me- I remember the first dream I recalled in my life... I had this dream multiple times, and I think the first time was as a toddler: I'm in my living room, and there's a giant fly (like 8 feet long) on the ceiling, and it flies down towards me and I run away. Recurring dream, starting roughly age 3.