Memories
Your perception of time changes based on your surroundings and experiences.
If you are having fun, time feels to move faster. If you forget about time and stay in the moment and focus on things happening right now, time ceases to exist for you in these brief moments.
All that is to say, that time is something that is dependent on your perception of it.
However what's more interesting to me is how memories are formed. And how memory works generally. Why do I remember certain events more vividly and others I forget easily. How can memories spontaneously occur and can you force yourself to forget things?
These are all questions I wish there was some definitive answer to.
But based on my experience thus far in life. Making these unforgettable memories is one of the most amazing traits this life has to give. Being able to remember past events and happy or even sad moments is a bliss. The only thing left is to maximize how many of these awesome and unique moments you get in life.
It's interesting to think, what would I do if I knew that at the end of every day my memory would be gone. How would I choose to lead my days. What would I do? There's a pretty awesome movie that is quite similar to this idea that I like.
In any way, knowing all that. I just wish to make as many unique and interesting experiences in life as I can. Make many meaningful friendships and meet many interesting people. Build interesting things and share them. Travel to new places and feel the different cultures and histories of these places. Take photographs and capture these little moments in my life.
Because that's what life is. Trying to peek under the covers of this reality only gets you so far.
Links
- The brain maps out ideas and memories like spaces (2021) (HN)
- Human Memory Course (HN)
- Memory making involves extensive DNA breaking (2021)
- An ultimate guide to memory palaces (HN)
- How do you memorize things you read? (2021)
- Primate Memory (2021)
- Notes on Foer – Moonwalking with Einstein
- Notes on Lorayne & Lucas – The Memory Book
- Ask HN: How did you move on from past experiences? (2021)
- New Map of Meaning in the Brain Changes Ideas About Memory (2022)
- Neural Noise Shows the Uncertainty of Our Memories (2022)
- Scientists watch a memory form in the brain of a living fish (HN)
- Electric fields, not individual neurons, may hold information in memory: study (2022) (HN)
- In Praise of Memorization (HN)
- Human brain compresses working memories into low-res ‘summaries’ (2022) (HN)
- LineByLine: Memorize Anything (HN)
- A single memory is stored across many connected brain regions (2022) (HN)
- Ask HN: Is it possible to train and improve your memory and recall? (2022)
- The Memory Techniques Wiki
- Ask HN: How to remember technical topics which you don’t use/refer everyday? (2022)
- Cumulative loneliness and subsequent memory function (HN)