In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.
Téa ObrehtOne of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this area seems to kick into overdrive, recording every last detail of the experience. The more detailed the memory, the longer the moment seems to last. "This explains why we think that time speeds up when we grow older," Eagleman said--why childhood summers seem to go on forever, while old age slips by while we’re dozing. The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.
Burkhard BilgerStichwörter: perception time memory brain aging near-death detail david-eagleman amygdala life-threatening
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
Samuel JohnsonStichwörter: perspective distance memory
Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.
David EaglemanStichwörter: life death memory representation
I'm like you,' he said. 'I remember everything.'
I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you’re just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there’s not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name
What makes and experience a memory is when we share with someone, the emotions we felt
Jeremy AldanaStichwörter: life memory emotion
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.
C.S. LewisSuch are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past events; but when it comes to how we experienced them at the time, memory feels no obligation to truth.
Milan KunderaStichwörter: experience memory
Now we wake up with our memory
and fix our gazes on that which was;
whispering sweetness, which once coursed through us,
sits silently beside us with loosened hair
People always talk about how hard it can be to remember things - where they left their keys, or the name of an acquaintance - but no one ever talks about how much effort we put into forgetting. I am exhausted from the effort to forget... There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.
Stephen CarpenterStichwörter: memory memories remembrance forgetting forgotten remembering
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