When thinking about the most important moment(s) of your life, do you still feel the full range of emotion associated with that memory? What if you keep recalling the same memory many times, does the intensity of emotion fade?

  • gibmiser@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is a fun but old podcast by Radiolab that talks about the subject. Kinda crazy how our brains basically destroy and recreate memories whenever we recall them.

    this

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      1 year ago

      I remember remembering my 4th birthday cake. I remember remembering it. But the actual memory is gone. As is anything from before I was maybe 7.

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      I remember remembering my 4th birthday cake. I remember remembering it. But the actual memory is gone. As is anything from before I was maybe 7.