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| Mem'ry and the Brain | | Date Created: Apr 10, 2005, 10:41 PM |
Lillie wrote in with some interesting comments on recent entries:
I read your blog and it confirmed what I already and always knew - our memories are made up. When we are recalling times we put into it what we really wanted to happen. If it was a bad time, we make it "badder". If it was a good time, we make it (better) by adding thoughts and feelings we really wish had happended. I do it all the
time. Sometimes my kids recall something (and there are three of us present)
and they tell me "it happened this way" and I of course remember it being
totally different.
I guess a memory is what emotions we were experiencing at the
time of the event- maybe we had too many other things going on to recall an
event exactly the way it happened and of course there is the passage of time - our
brains (or my brain anyway) can only accept limits of information before we
turn them into times to recall. There are moments I recall that were happy or sad to me and I am wondering if they were the right feelings to (have) at the time.
My point is, I'm glad you found your journal! It is so important to write things down while you are experiencing them, so that ten, twenty or even a year later it will be a truer reflection of what actually transpired.
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