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Originally Posted by metalmancpa
I'm 55 years old.
My memory of the past is choppy and broken. There are so many details i just can't remember, like school for instance. Actually my entire education through college is a blur. I remember travelling yet only some trips have clarity. I remember all of the cars I've driven. I forget many things about my children's schooling like the concerts and parent/teacher conferences.
Some theories of repressed pasts are due to trauma, something I believe never happened to me. Some could theorize that I smoked and drank too much in college (plus a few other things) and I killed enough memory brain cells along the way to affect my long term memory. Who knows, I could have very early stage Dementia or Alzheimer's. Yet maybe the brain just breaks down more on some as others during the aging process, and it's normal.
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I think your memory "limit" is more common than you think.
I'm the total opposite. I not only remember so many things in details, but also remember some of the stupidest, most insignificant things imaginable, and I've no clue why.
On top of that, I remember details about my childhood friends that they have no recall of, although I think they certainly should remember a few of them. (For example, one sold Avon for a short period of several months when she was a girl, and I bought a few things from her; she doesn't remember it at all.) I swear, I remember their own past lives better than THEY do.
I can remember what I ate at a pancake house at 18, but can't remember what I ate for breakfast this morning. There is no room left in my memory bank for more, so my current memory is shot to Hell.
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