Severely deficient autobiographical memory in healthy adults (2015)

Re:Severely deficient autobiographical memory in healthy adu... by jcims on Sunday October 06, 2019 @10:39AM (#21172298)

I'm pretty much in the same boat.

I have an experiment for you. If you listen to podcasts regularly while doing other stuff, pull one up that you've listened to in the past 3-5 days and listen to it again. When I do this, I will periodically get a stream of vivid movies of what I was doing when I listened to it the first time. I'm talking an intrusive replay of the sensory experience I was having previously.

My next step is to fire up a dash cam and listen to podcasts while I'm driving, then re-listen a few days later and record myself describing what I see as I'm listening. Then sync the two videos and see how close my description is describing what I saw the first time.

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Re:Severely deficient autobiographical memory in healthy adu... by gorbachev on Sunday October 06, 2019 @12:10PM (#21172871)

When I was a teenager I used to read (fictional) books while listening to music at the same time.

For years afterwards listening to the same music would make my mind imagine events in the books I was reading listening to the same music. I'm not sure exactly when it stopped happening though.

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Re:Severely deficient autobiographical memory in healthy adu... by krisgee on Sunday October 06, 2019 @12:35PM (#21173037)

Final Fantasy 4 and Stairway to Heaven are inextricably linked in my mind for a similar reason.

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Re:Severely deficient autobiographical memory in healthy adu... by o-__-o on Sunday October 06, 2019 @10:20PM (#21176774)

For me it’s Stunts and Bone Thugs n Harmony, E. 1999 Eternal. Listened to that CD on repeat building tracks on an IBM ps/2 as a kid.

Also Biggie’s Warning and anything Visual Basic 3.0. I don’t know why

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Re:Severely deficient autobiographical memory in healthy adu... by macintux on Sunday October 06, 2019 @12:31PM (#21173010)

There’s a song that eludes me at the moment, but it always conjures memories of my telescope as a child. I must have heard it one night as I was looking through a star chart waiting for it to get darker.

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Re:Severely deficient autobiographical memory in healthy adu... by meowface on Sunday October 06, 2019 @11:57AM (#21172790)

I listen to podcasts very frequently, and I just tried this. It's pretty effective for me. It also made me a little more aware of how boring and repetitive my life's been in the past few weeks... I now have some impetus to try to do more interesting things.

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