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1/20/2003 11:52:57 PM ]
spent ages yesterday writing a piece on memory, and when i tried to upload it it gateway timedout on me! Lost the lot. Dont remember exactly what I wrote which is basically what it was all about. How memory is a funny thing and how you can remember incidents years later yet can remember where you put your glasses 10 minutes ago. My first clear memory is from when I was aged between 3 and 4, being carried downstairs wrapped in a plaid into the living room where it was nice and warm and there was a big fire glowing. Mum was in the kitchen making porrige and then dad brought my brother in similarly wrapped to me. The milk was kept in a red bucket full of water under the sink and the water had frozen and it took them ages to get it out to put in the porridge. Its a really vivid and clear memory yet it was nothing special or traumatic. Six months earlier i had falled into the fire and burnt my elbow, yet I dont remember a thing about that. Another early childhood incident I remember is being bitten by a big dog when i was around four. It was a golden labrador and I had wanted to pet it. The lady came out and wrapped a t-towel around my arm and gave me an apple then sent me home. We had a dog when I was young, it went when I was about 9 and I have no clear recollection of it at all, I dont even remember its name or what colour it was. I think it followed me to school one morning but I don't know. Anyway that was what I meant I remember these things from almost 35-40 years ago and I don't remember what I had for dinner last night. I recently read an article that says for most people their earliest memory is between 3-5 years old. The scientistsseem to think that this is because in early chilhood or brains are still growing and forming and all the neural pathways aren't yet mapped out. It is only after they are that we start remembering.
1/20/2003 11:52:57 PM ]
spent ages yesterday writing a piece on memory, and when i tried to upload it it gateway timedout on me! Lost the lot. Dont remember exactly what I wrote which is basically what it was all about. How memory is a funny thing and how you can remember incidents years later yet can remember where you put your glasses 10 minutes ago. My first clear memory is from when I was aged between 3 and 4, being carried downstairs wrapped in a plaid into the living room where it was nice and warm and there was a big fire glowing. Mum was in the kitchen making porrige and then dad brought my brother in similarly wrapped to me. The milk was kept in a red bucket full of water under the sink and the water had frozen and it took them ages to get it out to put in the porridge. Its a really vivid and clear memory yet it was nothing special or traumatic. Six months earlier i had falled into the fire and burnt my elbow, yet I dont remember a thing about that. Another early childhood incident I remember is being bitten by a big dog when i was around four. It was a golden labrador and I had wanted to pet it. The lady came out and wrapped a t-towel around my arm and gave me an apple then sent me home. We had a dog when I was young, it went when I was about 9 and I have no clear recollection of it at all, I dont even remember its name or what colour it was. I think it followed me to school one morning but I don't know. Anyway that was what I meant I remember these things from almost 35-40 years ago and I don't remember what I had for dinner last night. I recently read an article that says for most people their earliest memory is between 3-5 years old. The scientistsseem to think that this is because in early chilhood or brains are still growing and forming and all the neural pathways aren't yet mapped out. It is only after they are that we start remembering.
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