My memory is like that too, extremely vague. Have you heard of SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory)?
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taiyang@lemmy.world 4 days agoAll correct, lots of interesting psychology articles on this and even a documentary about it iirc (like implanting getting lost in a mall as a child.) I teach confirmation bias in one of my classes and some of it is also just misremembering things to fit a narrative you want to believe.
What’s funny to me while I learned about it is that I don’t seem to do this fill-in-the-gaps misremembering stuff. I just don’t remember shit. What I do remember is vague and undetailed, though, and kind of easy to prove in the sense that vague memories could be all sorts of things (like crying but not remembering why). It’s like all a blur until college, lol.
My guess is my shitty childhood was traumatic, or I’m neurologically atypical (and given how weird I am, probably both). It doesn’t help I get conflicting stories from parents though.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
taiyang@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Good thought, but I’m not sure since I can imagine things pretty well in my mind if it’s something from adulthood (and maybe a few from late teens). I think I just don’t think about things enough to retain those neural connections, maybe. It’s not like people are trying to implant memories, either.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
The two are often connected (aphantasia and SDAM) but not necessarily so. It’s also possible it’s not related at all, but I just wanted to bring it up since your experience doesn’t sound like what I usually hear as the norm from most people.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
now that you mention it, i am similar to you; i cannot remember shit. i remember singular moments that are burned in, and the rest is like i watched a movie at 10x speed, like a smear. my childhood was traumatic too. my memories get clearer at about 21, but it’s still just singular moments and the rest is like a blank.