Scientists and teachers are always developing concoctions and methods to enhance memory. People (esp. us poor students near exam time) are always finding their own way of studying, learning and remembering things. But how come no one wants to find a way of eternally forgetting something?
They always say children learn easier and faster - that is because they don't have those thoughts of bad experiences and the fact that they have an empty brain, like an empty hard drive - 3T hard drive! (sorry just been looking at the new mac tower) Hmm.. okay I think I'm going off on a tangent a little, back to forget.
You know those thoughts that always haunt you? Those that inhibit you to do certain things? Those thoughts that are related to so many other things they just keep popping up in your mind when you were just simply listening to some music or even just shopping in sainsbury's?
So are there ways to forget? Can I aspirate out the bit of memory that I don't want from my brain? Because this 'Put those thoughts in a little box and lock it up' thing is not working...... there are far too many keys that can open that stupid lock. I did think telling myself to forgot 1000 times may work - but surely saying something 1000 times will make you remember it better right?See why I like the Sims... If your character gets low and gloom - you can just drown them in a swimming pool OR electrocuting them, and then create a new one to start again.
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all information and past experiences that are committed to long term memory (yes you do have to remember them in the first place) is never forgotten.
it's how we go about accessing those files that's the 'fun' bit. it's like building a road to a place you've forgotten how to get to, you remember some bits and try to rebuild the rest from fragments, the problem with this is that 'false' or made up memories start to appear because you're piecing the wrong pieces together or you're filling in the gaps with similar events elsewhen.
this is when mental stimuli comes in, a piece of music, a smell, a taste, a touch - all key you in to particularly strong memories that are associated with those stimuli.
one theory of deja vu is that we find some new experience disturbingly familiar because we had encountered such an occurrence before but it had been repressed or buried.
To repress a memory, to bury it hmmm. Hypnotism may be used or just by pure strength of will, forcing it into the subconscious. it's a naturally ocurring defence mechanism which the mind does on its own if the experience is truly unbearable like an intense trauma.
another way of coping with extreme experiences of trauma, pain and abuse is to dissociate; leaving the conscious world;- either entering a fugue state where total amnesia occurs or creating a new identity that is left to handle all the pain while the primary hides somewhere in a comfortable place devoid of pain etc.
we might go through the theories in term 5.
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