Memories...

It's a good thing our brain has the capacity to remember, or else our world as we know it to be now will be drastically different. People tend to think of memory as being like a tape recorder or a video camera, capturing what's out there. That doesn't match with the current thinking of most memory researchers. Their research implies that your memory of an event is something you construct from bits and pieces of events of daily life: from what you saw and heard and experienced and felt at the time; from things people told you afterward; from suggestions and thoughts and implications, all filtered by your attitude, by who you are.

It is easy to think of yourself as the sum of all your memories - the end product of all that you've ever experienced. But research into memory finds that it makes more sense to reverse that statement. Your memories are the end product of all you've ever thought and done, filtered through your perceptions and opinions. Who you are is shaped by your memories, and your memories are shaped by who you are. Therefore, in the following posts to come, I will attempt to record my memory from childhood to adulthood down here in the unfortunate event, if it ever occured, that I shall lose my memory in any way. Stay tune to hear my life-story from my perspective!