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Why I remember random line from a movie which I watched 10 year ago (telegra.ph)

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[-] Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

I don't have bad memory at all. I have no control over what I remember, though. Sometimes I will see something and know that I will remember this useless information.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

And sometimes someone important will introduce themselves, and I will very badly want to remember their name, but it's gone before we're done talking.

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[-] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, same, but it's hard for people to understand that.

One day a coworker told me he went to the doctor because of his bad memory and they were suspecting ADHD. This person is extremely well organized and methodic about every thing, the one person who was always the most likely to be paying full attention on meetings and that sort of stuff. Everything about him screamed the opposite of ADHD. And the doctor was suspecting ADHD because he forgets things and that's an ADHD symptom.

Me, on the other hand, I clearly have problems that resemble being forgetful, but I know that's not what's going on. I just need my memories to be triggered. If I'm going to the store and you ask me to bring you some coke, I'll forget about it immediatelly and won't think about it again, but if I walk past the sodas and see the coke brand, or if I do a mental check "did someone ask me to bring anything?", then I'll remember it. It's very different from just being forgetful.

(tbh the mental check sometimes will just make me remember that someone did ask me for something, but not make me remember what it was)

[-] captain_rangade@lemmus.org 3 points 10 months ago

And imagine a scenario where I can share this useless information with someone, but that never comes.

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

If the subject comes with a good feeling it will be remembered. If it comes with a neutral to bad feeling it doesn’t even gets saved.

[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 7 points 10 months ago

If the subject comes with a ~~good~~ bad feeling it will be remembered. If it comes with a neutral to ~~bad~~ good feeling it doesn’t even gets saved.

FTFY.

I might be having a different problem...

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

Up up down down left right left right B A select start

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago

that ones unfair. when you repeat something 10000 times you are an expert at that thing.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Good point. I suppose that goes for most things like old commercials that we saw all the time. What's weird for me is that I have a near photographic memory for some movies, even if I've seen them only once, and then other movies I will completely forget that I've even seen them. Like why? What's the distinction for my brain?

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

L R L R on SNES or you explode.

[-] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Doom 1 noclip code is IDSPISPOPD.

Edit: For you youngins, Doom 1 came out in 1993... 30 years ago.

[-] turbodrooler@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah dude! Why do I remember that too? Also IDKFA - guns & ammo? IDDQD - invincibility I think.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

Short for Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris, a made-up game proposed as a follow-up to Doom by people shitting about on Usenet. Carmack thought it was funny and that's that.

[-] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

hahahaha, that's ridiculous, thanks.

[-] TDCN@feddit.dk 16 points 10 months ago

I can remember obscure things from almost any point during my life, but I can't remember a person's name even when I'm told less than 2 minutes ago regardles

[-] Wojwo@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago

FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8

[-] Eonandahalf@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Fuck! I knew that one by heart

[-] Wojwo@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

I'm 44 and I can remember my best friends phone number from 5th grade. Couldn't remember it when I was in 5th grade and I can't remember any actually useful numbers today, but I know that one. A guy named Jeff has it now. He's nice.

[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago

windows xp?

[-] Wojwo@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Yup. One time I used it for a password. Then forgot that it's what I used for the password, until I reset the password to something else... But I still remember the key.

[-] Jojowski@sopuli.xyz 12 points 10 months ago

I remember the phone number of an older guy i talked online for like a week when I was 13 or so, 20 years ago. Thanks brain. Also thanks for reminding me about all the embarassing/shameful stuff i've done over the years. Why not replace those slots with, dunno, SOMETHING USEFUL!

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 months ago

You know I’ve always wondered, since memories can be changed as they are accessed (memory is absolutely fascinating, and very very very flawed), is it possible to knowingly reprogram your own memories to change your own subjective history?

I’ve been trying but I always forget that’s what I’m supposed to be doing.. 🫤

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Our disk defragmentation never runs and it’s always full. So it’s slow at I/O but with enough time we can recover data from a long time ago.

[-] Oszilloraptor@feddit.de 9 points 10 months ago

And whoever implemented our garbage collector must have taken it quite literal, without looking up what it means

[-] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 7 points 10 months ago

When I was a kid there was a song that I guess was popular around here that mocked bald people with several "pet names", one of them was "Moskito Airport".

Over a decade later I started taking the train to go to work and it took me literal years to stop getting that song pop up in my head every time the train announced the airport station. Nobody around me even remembers that song exists. I don't even remember who sang it or where it would play, but still - listen to the word airport and the song starts playing in my head. Same thing is true for pretty much every word that is not often found in song lyrics.

[-] quotheraven404@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This one?

[-] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 10 months ago

same lyrics, different voice.

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

I watched a horror movie (that i hated). But, a substantial part of the film had this song that was driving me crazy, tickling the back of my brain. Finally the movie showed the tv that the music came from, a 50s cartoon that was part of a classic cartoon compilation VHS i watched 40 fucking years ago.

But i can't remember the name of that guy who's come in to the shop every day for a year.

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

I do this as well.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

I know so much about a ton of things that have effectively zero utility in my day-to-day life.

This is the way, I guess?

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

ADHD is super fun. I remember even the smallest details about the most obscure things, and the most random stuff will remind me of that. I also usually can think about 3-4 things at a time! So cool.

What isn't cool is that, I don't get to pick either. Random details? Not sure which ones are going in and not coming out.... Thoughts? Plenty, but I have no choice in what I'm thinking about.

It's a fun little game of whack a mole, trying to get my brain to do what needs to be done.