Comments on: How Do You Forget A Memory? http://celebrateaging.com/how-do-you-forget-a-memory The Cure For What's Aging You Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:48:35 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Gail McConnon http://celebrateaging.com/how-do-you-forget-a-memory/comment-page-1#comment-273 Gail McConnon Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:16:31 +0000 http://celebrateaging.com/?p=4355#comment-273 I don't know, Jeri. Seems to me very little in that purging you talk about is either rapid nor total. Dementia takes time. It kind of draws you in when you're not looking. At least, that's how it was for my dad. And, it's selective. Some memories stay just where you put them. Others move off into some all together different realm of time and space . . your own personal twilight zone of sorts . . or not. The point I was trying to make is that there's so much stuff competing for our mental space and memories. Who's to say why you're holding on to the knowledge of 30 grams equaling one pound, except that just maybe some part of you believes that understanding is more important to keep around than another you've already discarded? I don’t know, Jeri. Seems to me very little in that purging you talk about is either rapid nor total. Dementia takes time. It kind of draws you in when you’re not looking. At least, that’s how it was for my dad. And, it’s selective. Some memories stay just where you put them. Others move off into some all together different realm of time and space . . your own personal twilight zone of sorts . . or not.

The point I was trying to make is that there’s so much stuff competing for our mental space and memories. Who’s to say why you’re holding on to the knowledge of 30 grams equaling one pound, except that just maybe some part of you believes that understanding is more important to keep around than another you’ve already discarded?

]]> By: Jeri http://celebrateaging.com/how-do-you-forget-a-memory/comment-page-1#comment-272 Jeri Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:47:17 +0000 http://celebrateaging.com/?p=4355#comment-272 I think that you are on to something. Maybe we have a finite amount of storage capacity for memories. Maybe at some point in our aging we must get rid of an old thought in order to add a new idea. For example, at one point in my life it was important for me to know that 454 grams is equal to about one pound. seams like meaningless stuff, particularly, since both units of weight mean about the same thing. Is it important for me to recognize that I no longer need that information and for me to get rid of it before banking this new idea? And also, by the way, what about my memory that there are about 30 grams in a pound? Could dementia be just rapid and total purging of minutia? I think that you are on to something. Maybe we have a finite amount of storage capacity for memories. Maybe at some point in our aging we must get rid of an old thought in order to add a new idea. For example, at one point in my life it was important for me to know that 454 grams is equal to about one pound. seams like meaningless stuff, particularly, since both units of weight mean about the same thing. Is it important for me to recognize that I no longer need that information and for me to get rid of it before banking this new idea? And also, by the way, what about my memory that there are about 30 grams in a pound? Could dementia be just rapid and total purging of minutia?

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