Few people are able to remember absolutely all events in great detail. own life, starting from the age of ten, including the days of the week and dates on which these events occurred
Few people are able to remember in great detail absolutely all the events of their own lives, starting from the age of ten, including the days of the week and the dates on which these events occurred.
Such people, according to researchers, have highly developed autobiographical memory. And more recently, scientists have found out what their secret is.
Scientists from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) examined 11 people with similar abilities and identified pronounced individual characteristics in 9 structures of their brain. Not surprisingly, a significant part of the differences were found in the area responsible for autobiographical memory. Also, the experiment participants white matter in the middle and anterior lobes of the brain turned out to be more dense than in similar brain structures in people from the control group.
Documenting these brain abnormalities allowed scientists to get a “visual, coherent description of what is happening” in the head of a person with such abilities, explains Aurora Leporte, a researcher at UCI University.
"On next stage we want to understand the mechanisms of memory,” says Leport. – Maybe these are just different mechanisms for transmitting information. Maybe this memory is genetic. Or it happens at the molecular level.”
A phenomenon sometimes called hypermnesia ( increased ability to remember and reproduce information; note. Since the discovery of this ability, scientists have examined more than 500 people who believed that they had highly developed autobiographical memory. Scientists were able to confirm this in only 33 people, including 11 people from previous research. The results of 37 people were controversial and were sent for further study.
Scientists note that people with these abilities do not outperform others in memory tests. However, they have a special kind of memory, different from that of people who are able to remember long chains of events and numbers.
“Not every one of them can be called a master at memorization,” says Leport. – Their abilities in this area were no different from the average of champions with regular type memories that can remember a long string of pi digits after the decimal point. This only makes the project more interesting. We are on our way to opening special type memory."
Gennady Fedotov
Are you able to remember what you had for breakfast the day before yesterday or what you did last weekend? Surely only a few will respond positively. At the same time, there are people who have an amazing ability - they remember everything, every moment of their life on any day!
One of them is 37-year-old Louise Owen from New York. She remembers the events of every day of her life, starting at age 11, that is, for more than a quarter of a century.
Recently, the American television channel CBS News invited Ms. Owen to appear on the show “60 Minutes.” And the seemingly ordinary woman, a violinist by profession, was not at a loss even in live demonstrated that the resources of human memory and brain are truly limitless, but no one knows where the button is that could be used to turn on the inexhaustible resource.
At first, the host of the channel's program was skeptical and expressed doubts about the veracity of Louise's statements - after all, no one but herself can know what exactly she did on this or that day of her life, so in such a situation it would not be long to lie. However, Louise remembered not only what happened to her, but also everything she saw and heard, in particular the news on TV and radio.
The presenter gave her a quick survey: he named many various events, starting in 1984, and Louise, showing her extraordinary talent in in full, almost instantly remembered the date and even the day of the week on which this or that incident happened.
The questions were from the most different areas life. So, she remembered when Nelson Mandela was released from prison, when the first and latest episodes popular US television series Seinfeld, when it exploded spaceship“Challenger”, with what score this or that football match ended ten years ago, etc. At the same time, Louise supplemented the answers with memories of what she herself did on this or that day.
For example, July 16, 1999, she remembers not only because on that day John F. Kennedy Jr. died in a plane crash, but also because on that day she stood in line at the box office to get into the Broadway production of “The Ice Comet.” but she never got the ticket.
Then the presenter changed his tactics: he no longer named events, but only dates, but the woman easily coped with this task, and the presenter was put to shame.
Owen can't explain her abilities and assumes that she has some kind of computer in her brain. According to her, she is flipping through a certain calendar in her head. Having stopped at some date and time from the past, she can tell all the events that she observed and experienced at that moment.
“When I hear a date, my brain immediately finds that position in my internal calendar and I instantly remember all the events that happened on that day,” explains Louise. - I usually describe it as time travel.
And it doesn’t matter how long ago the events took place, 22 minutes ago or 22 years ago.”
GIFT OR CURSE?
Owen perceives his absolutely supernatural ability remembering the past as a gift, not a curse. And scientists have come up with a special term to denote this condition - hyperthymestic syndrome (from Greek word thymesis - memory and the prefixes “hyper” - “over”) and they believe that Louise Owen perceives everything that happens so emotionally that literally all these events acquire personal significance for her. And that's why she can't forget them.
Hyperthymestic syndrome or, in other words, “higher supernatural autobiographical memory” is extremely rare; scientists so far know of only six human phenomena with similar abilities.
According to scientists, the brains of these people are slightly different in shape from the brains of ordinary people. In addition, the four “mnemonics” turned out to be left-handed and avid collectors of a variety of things - theatrical programs, old films...
At the same time, these people do not possess any phenomenal abilities such as the ability to multiply in their minds multi-digit numbers or “photographically” memorize entire pages of text. Owners of hyperthymestic syndrome - normal people with normal mental abilities.
Californian neuropsychologists suggest that there are other people with absolute memory living in the United States and around the world. Researchers are looking for them to gather as large a group as possible and try to find out how the structure and physiology of the brain in these people differs from “normal”. This information may shed light on the nature of many diseases associated with memory impairment, and also help to clarify fundamental mechanisms brain function.
By the way, they also have a phenomenal memory for dates. Hollywood stars Marilu Henner and Anthony Hopkins.
“My brain is designed in such a way that I can quickly memorize any number, and also calculate what day of the week a particular date falls on,” Hopkins says. - For example, June 28, 1999 was Tuesday. June 28, 1955 was also a Tuesday. That year I took acting classes for the first time. It was October 3, Monday. It's a shame that I don't use this talent. There is simply nowhere to use it!”
What is the earliest period of your life you remember? Some people begin to realize themselves at the age of 4. Some – a little earlier or later. Memories of an earlier age are fragmentary, like a compilation of separate pictures. But it turns out that a person can remember his most early childhood– the moment of birth and even intrauterine life.
Modern science allows us to study more deeply the most tender age, to understand how the baby feels, how he is aware of himself, to determine his reaction to certain irritating factors - both pleasant and not so pleasant. Other sciences aimed at inner world human, help to cause incredible early memories. Often it is at this age that scientists see the causes of many personality problems in his adult life. There is another reason why it is necessary to understand and explain the world of the newborn. Research like this helps inexperienced parents better understand their child, who cannot yet express emotions and needs in words. In addition, studying this issue would be useful for organizations and institutions through which young children pass: maternity hospitals, hospitals.
There is a connection!
Until about the middle of the last century, no scientist seriously studied the issue of people’s memories of their own birth. Although psychoanalysts sometimes recorded stories from their patients who suddenly remembered the moment of their birth. The technique of hypnosis and the development of such a science as psychology have made it possible to slightly reveal the secret. In the course of special studies, it turned out that the bright moments that were noted by a person’s consciousness at birth are etched into memory at a subconscious level. For example, a person born in a house next to a railroad experienced all his life discomfort from sharp train whistles. Or another story. One successful businessman, who had achieved a lot in life, remembered the doctor’s words casually thrown to the nurse: “Don’t waste too much time on him, he has no chance.” The child was born at seven months old, and given the level of development of medicine at that time, indeed, the likelihood of his survival was extremely low. But everything happened differently; the baby turned out to be strong. At a conscious age, this man constantly felt not successful enough, although he had everything that many only dream of. Working through his childhood memories helped him cope with his torment.
Everything comes from childhood
The famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud was at one time quite skeptical about a person’s ability to remember his arrival in this world and was inclined to attribute patients’ stories about his own birth to the fantasies of a more conscious age. But he recognized that many of a person’s problems and fears can be associated with psychological trauma inflicted on him at the time of birth.
Strange dreams
Surely, each of us at least occasionally sees dreams where something is pressing on him, he needs to crawl through some narrow hole, get out from somewhere. Scientists believe that such dreams may be echoes of a person’s emotions at the time of birth.
What is all this for?
An interesting thing is the subconscious. It stores information that would seem to be completely erased from memory. Using special breathing techniques, hypnosis, or some other means, a person can immerse himself in subconscious memories and tell a specialist about them during a session. It is believed that the reason for many fears and worries of an adult lies here. Therefore, it is necessary to relive these sensations, to let them pass through yourself. Then the fear goes away and the person begins life anew, without the baggage of aggravating memories. Sophisticated technology is used to separate actual memories of childbirth from the patient's later fantasies. For example, not only the patient himself, but also his mother is put into hypnosis, and then the stories are compared. An example from the practice of a psychologist. Young, full of strength the woman suffered from self-doubt. The men didn't pay attention to her. Over time, she finally wrote herself down as an “ugly girl.” And she was already planning to live until retirement, having never achieved happiness in personal life. But suddenly fate brought her together with a psychologist. The doctor found the cause of her misfortunes. It turns out that the parents fervently wanted the birth of a boy. “We didn’t even come up with a name for her!” - this was the mother’s first reaction to the news that the child was female. There was no ultrasound then. Imagine how stressful it is for a small creature to realize that the most close person, mom, I’m disappointed with his birth...
Why are these memories erased?
American psychoanalyst Nandor Fodor believed that the process of birth for a child is incredibly painful. This is a transition from one world to another. It's the same as death, only in reverse. In addition, birth involves not only physical but also psychological suffering. Having to leave a warm, cozy, secure place and go into the unknown is a huge challenge. That is why, according to the scientist, we do not remember the moment of birth - too difficult memories. This kind of amnesia is defense mechanism for our psyche. Nature wisely provided for it.
What do you remember?
All my life I really dislike the cold. When there is the slightest breeze, I throw on long sleeves. And why am I such a “freezer”? One day my mother told me how I was born. An emergency situation occurred in the maternity hospital that day; there was no hot water. The birth happened very quickly and the nurses did not have time to heat the water, so they had to rinse the newborn - that is, me - in cold water. It could, of course, just be a coincidence, but who knows.
It is no coincidence that the birth of a child is sometimes called a sacrament and even magic. IN modern world the process of giving birth to a baby is standardized and more like a medical operation, even if everything goes without complications. Bright light the delivery room, the voices of doctors, the concentrated seriousness of everyone around, the confusion and fear of the woman in labor. Of course, refuse medical care in childbirth - today it is rather exotic. But perhaps if we understand more deeply the sensations and feelings of everyone little man, our obstetrics system will become more welcoming. Fortunately, there are already modern maternity hospitals where all kinds of “soft” births are practiced. It's not just the 8/9 Apgar score that's important here. We must try to make it clear to the newly minted person that he is welcome in this world. One may be skeptical about studying people's memories of their own birth, believing that this is fun akin to fantasy “travels” through past lives. But there is an undoubted benefit from this - an attempt to better understand the world of a newborn and take this knowledge into account in practice, avoiding the mistakes of previous generations.
The ability to forgive is a virtue, but not many of us are good at forgetting. “We have forgiven you, but we cannot forget,” sounds paradoxical, but sometimes memories settle so deeply in the depths and that they turn life into torment. The heroine of the film about 50 first dates seems happy to a person with too good a memory.
The mind of a person with a forgetting disorder is like a computer hard drive that has been actively filled but never cleaned. In such a repository of information, everything is retained - dates, patronymics, license plates of cars accidentally seen, details of the daily diet of one's own and others. Today we have the stories of four US citizens who in the 21st century are officially recognized as people with phenomenal memory. This is not a gift, it is a disorder that aggravates the days of life, usually developing against the background of an acquired syndrome obsessive states or congenital autism.
The Neuroscience Center at the University of California is eager to introduce you to the four best data storage systems of the Homo sapiens system.
- Bob Petrella
The ability to memorize numbers and dates gave Bob Petrell the career he was mentally prepared for. Today he runs a TV channel that shows tennis, and at the same time, of course, remembers the results of all more or less important tennis competitions. Bob can be shown any “frozen” fragment of a match involving his favorite baseball or football team, and he will say what kind of match it was, when, and how they played.
Petrella says she has memorized everything since she was 5 years old. All PIN codes and phone numbers. Bob, for example, remembers what he lost mobile phone September 24, 2006, but there was not a single number in the device’s memory, since Petrella stores them all in her head.
- Jill Price
More often than the other three “”, Mrs. Jill Price from California, who remembers her whole life in detail since her 14th birthday, appeared on the screens and pages of the media. It began after the physical trauma and mental exhaustion of moving from the East to the West of the United States. To Jill herself, her painful gift reminds her of some kind of disgusting video camera that she has to carry around with her on all day and night. In the process of remembering something necessary or not, rewinding to the required fragment is activated. In the years harsh war with the Internet shut down, Ms. Price could become a legendary spy and savior of the world.
Jill Price lives far from Hollywood, leads a non-public lifestyle, working at a Jewish religious school. Parties are rare in her life, so Ms. Price is always pleased to surprise guests with her phenomenal knowledge. At the same time, according to Jill, living with the burden unpleasant memories(and who doesn’t have them?) - this is a painful fate.
- Kim Peek
The prototype of Rain Man, the late Kim Pik, lived with a damaged cerebellum and was therefore considered crazy. Several other congenital brain abnormalities robbed Peake of his ability to forget. From what he read (a book spread in 8 seconds), Kim Peak remembered up to 98% of the information, verbal and digital. By the age of 7 he knew the Bible by heart, by the age of 20 - full meeting Shakespeare.
Damage to the cerebellum in the walking encyclopedia was apparently caused by a gene mutation. As happens in such cases, the keeper of phenomenal memory walked poorly (his gait was very strange), and could not tie his shoelaces or fasten his shoes. All the “drivers” of this walking computer were aimed at scanning and remembering what the eyes see and the ears hear. Over time, however, in his declining years, Piku managed to learn how to button up his clothes and play the piano.
The prototype of the Rain Man, Kim Peak, did not suffer from “fashionable” autism, just as another movie character without a prototype did not suffer from it - mathematician Max Cohen from the film “Pi”, who was hunted by Orthodox Jews with sidelocks and machine guns. At the end of the film, Cohen, tired of his gift, drills a hole in his head and becomes a free man, since he is no longer tormented not only by fanatics, but also by headaches.
And two more living people live with an officially registered diagnosis of “hyperthymesia” (i.e. “excess memory”). This is Brad Williams and Rick Baron, both from the USA.
Americans say that for every Jill Price there is a Brad Williams. The Americans are referring to a radio host from Wisconsin, who, unlike Jill, does not have a super memory as a burden. Mr. Williams brags about her every chance he gets. If you ask him what happened on August 31, 1986, Brad will remember that on this day the Admiral Nakhimov sank and the sculptor Henry Moore died.
Mr. Williams remembers very well what day it snowed and what day there was a thunderstorm, what and when he ate for breakfast or dinner. In the TV show " Good morning"America!" Brad Williams has been called the “Google Man.”
Once, thanks to his impractical talent, Brad almost won the American version of the TV show Jeopardy. They say that he fought on sports issues. Unlike Bob Petrella, Williams does not like sports, and his deepest knowledge is filled with, for example, the history of pop culture. The Google man tells doctors that he sees nothing supernatural in his abilities.
Unlike his fellow hyperthymesians, Cleveland resident Rick Baron uses his genius abilities to make money. Being officially unemployed, Baron takes part in various television championships in erudition.
Constantly winning, Rick Baron receives discount cards, tickets to sporting events as rewards, and 14 times he went on vacation trips to distant lands with the winnings. Baron claims to have memorized everything since he was 11 years old. Moreover, he retrospectively remembers the daily chronicles of everything that happened to him from the age of seven.
The sister of a chronic pageant winner believes that Rick has a serious obsessive disorder. This lies in the fact that Mr. Baron tries to organize and catalog everything around him. In addition, the owner of super memory does not allow anything to be thrown away and carefully stores all paid bills and redeemed tickets to sports matches.
Our childhood. Looking at the children from the neighboring yard, you understand that this is the most carefree time in the life of every person. However, memories of our childhood or birth are not available to us. What is this mystery connected with? Why shouldn't we remember ourselves in our childhood years? What is hidden behind this gap in our memory? And then at some point a thought suddenly flashed, why don't we remember ourselves from birth, forces us to delve into the mysteries of the unknown.
Why don't we remember our birth
It would seem like this important point, like birth, should have been imprinted on our brains forever. But no, some bright events from past life sometimes they pop up in the subconscious, and most importantly, they are forever erased from memory. No wonder that the best minds Psychology, physiology and the religious sphere are trying to understand such an interesting fact.
Erasing memory from a mystical point of view
Researchers studying the unknown mystical side of the existence of our universe and Supreme Intelligence, give their answers to the questions of why parts of a person’s memory erase the ability to reproduce the birth process.
The main emphasis is on the Soul. It contains information about:
- lived periods of life,
- emotional experiences,
- achievements and failures.
Why don't we remember how we were born?
WITH physical point It is not possible for a person to understand the soul and decipher the facts stored in it.
It is assumed that this substance visits the formed embryo on the tenth day of its existence. But she does not settle there forever, but leaves him for a while, only to return a month and a half before the birth.
Scientific background
But we do not have the opportunity to remember a very important moment in our lives. This happens due to the fact that the soul does not want to “share” with the body the information that it itself possesses. A bundle of energy protects our brain from unnecessary data. Most likely, the process of creating a human embryo is too mysterious to be solved. The external universe uses the body only as an external shell, while the soul is immortal.
Man is born in pain
Why do we not remember how we were born into this world? Accurate evidence of this phenomenon has not been obtained. There are only assumptions that the extreme stress experienced at birth is to blame. A child from the warm mother’s womb climbs out through the birth canal into a world unknown to him. In the process, he experiences pain due to the changing structure of his body parts.
Height human body directly related to the formation of memory. An adult remembers the most outstanding moments in his life and places them in the “storage” compartment of his brain.
For children, everything happens a little differently.
- Positive and negative points and events are deposited in the “subcortex” of their consciousness, but at the same time they destroy the memories existing there.
- A child's brain is not yet developed enough to store large amounts of information.
- That is why we do not remember ourselves from birth and do not store childhood memories.
What do we remember from childhood
Children's memory develops from 6 months to 1.5 years. But even then it is divided into long-term and short-term. The child recognizes the people around him, can switch to this or that object, and knows how to navigate the apartment.
Another scientific guess why we completely forgot the process of appearing in this world is due to ignorance of words.
The baby does not speak, cannot compare current events and facts, or correctly describe what he saw. Infantile amnesia is the name given to the absence of childhood memories by psychologists.
Scientists express their guesses about this problem. They believe that children choose short term memory. And this has nothing to do with a lack of ability to create memories. Any person not only cannot tell how his birth happened, but the passage of time makes him forget other important bright moments of his life in a certain period.
There are two main scientific theories who are trying to understand this difficult issue.
| Name | Description |
| Freud's theory | The world famous Freud, who promoted important changes in the fields of medicine and psychology, had his own views on the lack of childhood memories.
In other words, the girl in early age She is strongly attached to her father and has jealous feelings for her mother, perhaps even hating her.
But widespread this theory was not received. It has remained exclusively one person's position regarding the lack of memories of an early period of life. |
| Hark Hawn theory | What the scientist proved: why we don’t remember childhood
This doctor believed that the child did not feel like a separate person. He does not know how to share the knowledge gained as a result of his own life experience, and those emotions and feelings that other people experience. For the baby everything is the same. Therefore, memory does not preserve the moment of birth and childhood. How do children know how to distinguish between mom and dad if they have not yet learned to speak and remember? Helps them with this semantic memory. The child easily navigates the rooms and shows who is dad and who is mom without getting confused. Exactly long term memory stores important information, so necessary in order to survive in this world. “Storage” will tell you the room where he is fed, bathed, dressed, the place where the treat is hidden, and so on. So why don’t we remember ourselves from birth:
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Why do some people remember themselves as children?
At what age do we begin to remember events that happen to us? Among your acquaintances, most likely, there are people who claim that they remember their infant years. If you are one of them, then stop deceiving yourself. And do not believe others who prove that this is so.
The brain erases events from childhood
An adult can remember moments that happened to him after five years, but not earlier.
What scientists have proven:
- Infantile amnesia completely erases the first years of life from memories.
- New brain cells, as they form, destroy all early memorable events.
- This action in science is called neurogenesis. It is constant at any age, but in infancy it is especially violent.
- Existing “cells” storing certain information are overwritten by new neurons.
- As a result, new events completely erase the old ones.
Amazing Facts of Human Consciousness
Our memory is diverse and has not yet been fully studied. Many scientists have tried to get to the bottom of the truth and determine how to influence it, forcing us to create the “storage chambers” we need. But even rapid development information progress does not make it possible to make such a castling.
However, some points have already been proven and may surprise you. Check out some of them.
| Fact | Description |
| Memory works even if one part of the brain hemisphere is damaged |
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| Complete amnesia almost never happens. | In reality, complete memory loss is practically non-existent. Do you often watch films in which the hero hits his head, as a result - previous events completely evaporated. In reality, it is almost impossible that during the first trauma everything is forgotten, and after the second one everything is restored.
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| The onset of brain activity in an infant begins in the embryonic state. | Three months after the egg is fertilized, the baby begins to place certain events in the cells of its storage. |
| A person can remember a lot of information |
It's just that you can't get the necessary facts out of your storage, the volume of which is unlimited. |
| It has been proven how many words can the human brain remember? | This figure is 100,000. There are so many words, but why don’t we remember ourselves from birth, it’s still interesting to know about this. |
| False memory exists | If it happens to us unpleasant events, traumatic to our psyche, consciousness can turn off the memory of such moments, recreating, exaggerating or distorting them. |
| Works while sleeping short term memory | That is why dreams mainly convey recent events happening to us. life facts, which we don’t even remember in the morning. |
| TV kills your ability to remember |
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| Brain growth occurs before age twenty-five |
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| Always needed new and unique experiences | Memory loves nothingness
Have you ever wondered why time flies so quickly? Why are the same impressions and emotions subsequently devoid of novelty? Remember your first meeting with your loved one. The appearance of the first child. Your vacation you've been waiting for all year.
But when it repeats, it no longer seems so joyful, but fleeting. After you have just tripled back to work after studying, you look forward to your first vacation, spend it usefully and slowly. The third and the rest are already flying by in an instant. The same applies to your relationship with a loved one. At first you count the seconds until your next meeting; they seem like an eternity to you. But, after the years you have lived together, before you know it, you are already celebrating your thirtieth anniversary.
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What can you remember from childhood?
Which are the most vivid memories Do you remember from childhood? The child's brain is designed in such a way that it is not susceptible to sound associations. Most often, he is able to remember events he saw or those that the children tried by touch.
The fear and pain experienced in infancy are forced out of the “storage chambers” and are replaced by positive and good impressions. But some people are able to remember only negative moments from life, and they completely erase happy and joyful moments from their memory.
Why do our hands remember more than our brains?
A person is able to reproduce bodily sensations in more detail than conscious ones. An experiment with ten-year-old children proved this fact. They were shown photos of their friends from nursery group. Consciousness did not recognize what they saw, only the galvanic skin reaction revealed that the children still remembered their grown-up comrades. This can be determined by electrical resistance experienced by the skin. It changes when excited.
Why does memory remember experiences?
Emotional memories become scarred by our most negative experiences. Thus, consciousness warns us for the future.
But sometimes the psyche simply does not have the ability to cope with the mental trauma suffered.
- Horrible moments simply do not want to fit into a puzzle, but are presented in our imagination in the form of scattered fragments.
- Such bad experience stored in implicit memory in broken pieces. A small detail - a sound, a look, a word, the date of an event - can resurrect the past that we are trying to erase from the depths of our brain.
- To obsessive terrible facts were not resurrected, each victim uses the principle of so-called dissociation.
- Experiences after trauma are fragmented into separate, incoherent fragments. Then they are not so associated with real life nightmares.
If you were offended:
Are there really options for answering the question of why we don’t remember ourselves from birth? Maybe this information can still be pulled out from the depths of our capacious storage?
When certain problems arise, we most often turn to psychologists. To help cope with its solution, specialists in some cases resort to hypnosis sessions.
It is often believed that all our painful real experiences come from deep childhood.
During a moment of trance, the patient can list all his hidden memories without even knowing it.
Sometimes, individual non-susceptibility to hypnosis does not make it possible to immerse yourself in early periods life path.
Some people, on a subconscious level, put up a blank wall and protect their emotional experiences from strangers. And this method has not received scientific confirmation. Therefore, if some people tell you that they perfectly remember the moment of their birth, do not take this information seriously. Most often these are simple inventions or a clever professional advertising trick.
Why do we remember moments that happen to us after we reach 5 years of age?
Can you answer:
- What do you remember from your childhood?
- What were your first impressions after visiting the nursery group?
Most often, people cannot give at least any answer to these questions. But, nevertheless, there are still at least seven explanations for this phenomenon.
| Cause | Description |
| Unripe brain | The roots of this hypothesis have come to us a long time ago.
But at present, many scientists argue with this statement.
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| Missing vocabulary | Due to the fact that until the age of three the child knows minimal amount words, he is unable to clearly describe the events and moments surrounding him.
For example, a girl remembered the smell of her grandmother’s pies in the village where she spent up to a year. |
| Muscular form |
You saw that they constantly copy the movements of adults, gradually bringing their actions to automatism. But psychologists argue with this statement.
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| Lack of sense of time | To put together a picture from flickering details from childhood, you need to understand in what specific period the corresponding event occurred. But the child cannot do this yet. |
| Memory with holes |
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| No desire to remember | An interesting position is taken by pessimists who argue why we don’t remember ourselves from birth. It turns out that unconscious fears are to blame for this:
Everyone is trying to force their helpless state out of uncomfortable memories. And, when we are able to serve ourselves independently, from that moment we begin to “record” all the information we receive and reproduce it, if necessary. |
| Very important period life | The brain is like a computer
Think about how a computer works. If we make changes to system programs at your own discretion, this may lead to a failure of the entire system as a whole.
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Do we remember or not?
It cannot be assumed that all of the above hypotheses are one hundred percent correct. Since the moment of memorization is a very serious and not fully studied process, it is hard to believe that it is influenced by only one of the listed facts. Of course, it’s curious that we keep a lot of different things, but we don’t imagine our birth. This is the most greatest secret which humanity cannot solve. And, most likely, the question of why we don’t remember ourselves from birth will worry great minds for decades to come.
Your comments are very interesting - do you remember yourself as a child?
It will be interesting to find out.