Can you remember?...

[Spawn67]

Maybe Im getting older (Im only 40) but it seems sometimes I can remember something clear as day from say..1982..and barley remember say 1994 or 2002, Ive always had a good memory for the most part but I guess things you remember you remember for a good reason
Anyone else ever feel this way?

[johnnystorm]

I can remember details of things that happened to me or things I did in the 70s, or details from books or tv shows I saw & read as a little kid. And yet I'll forget the name of someone I met a day or so ago, or can't remember who someone was I worked with 5 years ago. I guess it's a matter of having so much information filed in your brain, and somehow your brain categorizes it by importance to you personally. For example, considering I collect toys and books from the past, my brain " knows" to keep that stuff handy. But it also then puts into storage stuff that I probably won't need again, such as the name of someone I worked once or twice and haven't seen again in ten years.

[cjefferys]

All I know is that the older you get, time goes by faster and faster. For me the 70s and 80's seemed to last a long time, but the last couple decades just flew by! I remember my grandfather telling me that it just goes by even faster the older you get. And man, when you have kids you really see time fly right by. I'm scared!

[Sideshow Spock]

My memory for earlier life events ('70s and '80s) used to be pretty sharp, but as I work into my mid 40s, it's all gotten pretty mushy. Very "swiss cheese", as Dr. Sam Beckett used to say. I talk to all my old friends less and less (some not in years), so there's much less priming of the pump. It's all just kinda fading away...

[Mongoose1983]

Well, I do remember things from when I was 2 1/2 years old, that's as far as I can go back.
Anyway, not so long ago I read a very interesting paper from someone in the Psychology department saying that you can not remember anything from before you become used to some language. It works pretty much like your desktop: you NEED words to associate and match things, peoples, and situations, that you can later go back and open, just like the folders in your desktop!

[ScottA]

All I know is that the older you get, time goes by faster and faster. For me the 70s and 80's seemed to last a long time, but the last couple decades just flew by! I remember my grandfather telling me that it just goes by even faster the older you get. And man, when you have kids you really see time fly right by. I'm scared!

Tru dat. My wife and I got my youngest sons senior high school pictures in 2 weeks ago. This May all 3 of my kids will have been high school graduates. I seems like yesterday I was bringing my oldest home from the hospital after birth. Having turned 50 last Sept I am really noticing that a lot more. Enjoy every second with them.

[jwyblejr]

What was the question again?

[Hector]

My dad owned a Siberian Husky...I was like two or three...I remember playing with him...but it gets a bit foggy that early in my life.

In more detail...I vividly remember one Halloween like it was yesterday...it was 1969...I was six or seven...I went as Casper the Friendly Ghost...it was my best Halloween ever...and one of the best days/nights of my life...I remember almost every specific little detail...man...how time flies.

Now...sometimes I barely remember what I did last week...I'm getting old...lol.

[Red Hulk]

All I know is that the older you get, time goes by faster and faster. For me the 70s and 80's seemed to last a long time, but the last couple decades just flew by! I remember my grandfather telling me that it just goes by even faster the older you get. And man, when you have kids you really see time fly right by. I'm scared!

Man you can say that again it seemed like Summer lasted forever back then and Christmas couldn't come fast enough.But as for my memory I've been told I don't forget anything but I only remember bits and pieces of stuff before 1977 mostly good my Uncles and Grandparents were still around as well as my Great Grandmother and Great Aunts and Uncles.

[TomStrong]

Life is long, especially if you're poor.

[TomStrong]

I can remember a lot if things, especially about my childhood, even getting Megos as a kid. But After I got out of graduate school my brain seemed to have used up all it's short term memory. Luckily my wife usually sends me a text message for grocery lists, otherwise I'd wander around in the store like a zombie wondering what I was supposed to buy. I do have portions of time I can't account for and people I met that I have no memory of around the time of my folks' death. That's a fuzzy era for me. Every now and again something long buried will bubble up or something random will jog a memory. It's really strange.