It's actually true when I was little, I studied a day before exam and scoredmore than my friends who always study. But I messed up in advanced studies...It doesn't work there.
This is great info for people who suffer from OCD and ruminate. I have taken a fairly innocent memory and ruminated on it til I think I’m evil and then go to apologize or “confess” to people and they’re like “that… didn’t even happen like that? Everything is fine why are you freaking out?”
Severe ocd sufferer here. I also agree. I have (professionally diagnosed) severe ocd with psychotic features. My ocd has gotten so bad, I'm on antipsychotics. I have real events, and false memory ocd. And occasionally I have harm ocd. I don't trust my memories at all. It's very upsetting
100% This post hurt my heart. I lost the love of my life, my soulmate, over 20 years ago. The idea of my forgetting him and his face causes me physical pain.
This is true, but it’s also kinda like saying “don’t wear your shoes, every time you wear them you’re leaving little bits of them behind you as you wear them out and eventually they’ll be gone.” You can’t enjoy your memories without thinking about them. All things are fleeting, enjoy them while you can :)
Exactly. Also i believe that you will just completely forget the memory if you dont think about it. Sure the memory gets less accurate but atleast you kinda remember it
unless you create more associations with that memory, that way you can remember more details and more accurately as long as you don't corrupt it with a fake bits
Exactly, it’s like having a memory for a password, for example: Memory: **Remembering password 9383** Remembering: **Password** If you associate something like 9383 or repeat it multiple times to get it stuck in your head, it’ll be easier for you to remember. You can associate 9383 with remembering it with fewer steps, 93, 83. Instead of 9383.
@@Scramifyslightly of topic, but I usually remember best this way for example 9383 two pair with 3 as a second digit two numbers counting down from 10 I don't know how to explain it well, but I hope someone can understand me lol
If you don't think about your memories they fade away into nothing. Thinking about memories rewrites them everytime, and it reinforces the pathways and importance of that memory. Therefore, you won't lose the memory, but it will be a little more corrupted every time you think about it.
But I heard that recalling memories create links and makes it easier to remember them, I've read from countless books that repetition is the key to memory- the more you recall the stronger the memory
I do know that this is true sometimes and then with some memories i have definitely realized that the memory slowly became less clear the more i kept going back to it. Say you see the numbers 368 and you have to remember them for whatever reason, or even a color; often times the first time you recall the numbers to someone or yourself you end up saying it correctly, but then you go "no wait" and then come out with the wrong answer.
My memory used to be crystal clear. I got older, and my memory became like a normal person. It was a devastating realization. But you just have to accept aging.
Yeah I completely agree, I think his logic totally wrong. Like yeah technically what he is saying is true but it’s just bullshit that the more you recall something the less you will remember it.
I think he's saying that you'll just remember it wrong, you'll still have the memory and you're more likely to remember it more often the more you recall it, but it will end up being more faulty and less accurate to how it was at the same time
@@josemaldonado4577 If you don't actively use something to reinforce your recollection, recollection alone does create inaccurate copies of the past memory variation. Just like how you need to read something multiple times for the average person to memorise some knowledge, an act of reinforcing a certain knowledge, same thing as practicing something over and over again until your body inherently remembers it and does it naturally without needing you to recall how to do it.
your brain actively deletes whatevers not used. very simple example- play a game with a custom set of controls, learn them. then stop playing for a few months. when you go back you wont remember what control does what.
@@evilsharkey8954 idk but i relive the exact same thing that happened to me (flashbacks) as a symptom of cptsd. i know that it is the exact same thing because it happened over and over to me
@@yagovich8473 It’s the same thing that happens with phobias and why they often get worse. You don’t just remember the incident. You remember the trauma of recalling it.
If you obsess over bad memories, they tend to get worse as you alter them in your mind. Instead, reminisce with friends about good times, make them even better every time you get together and talk.
Cognitive reframing of a traumatic memory.. wouldnt be possible without memorys being falable in their reconstruction so thank god we can forget memorys thru making new memorys about the past.
Thank you for this. I’ve been ruminating about something for hours now when initially after the event I wasn’t worried. The ocd “doubt” only manifested minutes after it happened now I’m wondering if I did have my face mask on (what I worried about)
@@danniellejohnson448 Ruminating is hard to snap out of, it's a miserable feedback loop that feeds anxiety. I used to get stuck in it a lot; if you notice it happening, grounding yourself can help bring you back. Different methods work for different people; or me what works is taking a deep breath and relaxing my shoulders, and then checking how long it's been since I had water or something to eat. Good luck, friend. :)
If you're a survivor of abuse/assault your memories and experience are valid, please don't gaslight yourself into thinking you might not have experienced it or you've been overreacting ❤️
That‘s why witness reports have to be done soon after a crime. The human mind doesn‘t like forgetting so it makes up new memories just to let you think you remember it.
@@ItsAryax manga diary? I write about everything and nothings. My latest diary has taken years to complete since I struggled with illness, both physical and mental. It's a shame really, since my memory is really poor.
@@icanhasyellow oh that's ok keep your mental health & physical health nice take care of your body & mind by manga diary i meant a very good interesting diary like a comic book
Many say this as well as the whole “world was brighter when we were kids”. But if anything my retention to light and detail have never felt altered to even agree with the statements. Maybe I’m still a child.
Thanks. Just justified my anxiety about loosing every thing I ever cared about and that all the abuse I went through is definetly imagined since I can't even rely on my fucking memories.
He's exaggerting. Especially with events that are recurring, if you were for example traumatised repeatedly, through bullying or other abuse, you might not remember each instance by itself, but you KNOW that it had been happening. I would imagine it's also a matter of complexity, the more complex a memory and the more details you try to recall, the higher the chance you'll misremember. Also, keep in mind that you need a memory of an event in the first place, to be able to misremember.
Same I was in an abusive relationship and struggle with gaslighting myself and these 'facts' literally make me start thinking what if I imagined everything and my abuser was not an abuser... Like I've been diagnosed with PTSD but shit like this makes me doubt the reality of my pain...
For me, it's photographs. I photograph views, and art, and the first time I see something famous. One of my friends asked me why I take pictures of art when I could buy a better photo in the gift shop and I answered that it's because I don't want a better picture, I want to capture my memory.
The written word was a Great Leap Forward for humankind. Greater once most people could read for themselves, taking power away from the shamans and priests. I was working when secretaries began to fade out if professional companies. I scared a senior engineer into learning how to type... something the secretaries did when he graduated university.
Recalling things improves memory if you can make sure you are not getting information wrong, and correcting it if you do. You can also remember something related to it that you had previously forgotten about.
My memories are usually surrounded by events / associations, and I'm usually dead on! Journals help only if you have been 100% truthful when recording / writing something down ... Then, if you recall a memory, you can go back to your journal and see how well you really do remember what actually took place. You must be truthful in this diary / journal, or you'll be screwed! ... 👋
Did that for 30years. Still here and now fixating on them is so ingrained in neural pathways that it's tough to function. What this video did help me to realise is that..that past does not exist anymore. Ruminating so much definitely distorted the memory, so its not real. Participants do not remember anymore due age. I can let go
This genuinely might be the reason im so forgetful, I keep trying to remember things to the exact thing then forget it almost entirely a few months down the road, and it actually pulled down my self esteem because I couldn’t remember a lot from the past, to the point I would write in a journal documenting something the moment after it happened just to recall it perfectly. Good to know it’s not a bad thing to continue doing that.
That makes me so scared dude... imagine forgetting almost everything from someone you lost as a child just because you don't stop thinking about them..
Because they learn from books and the info in books is constant (unlike memory, where you can potentially forget some details). Med students read the books, revise them several times before writing the exam . Such repetition of info will help the brain remember the details much clearly everytime. And even if they feel like theyre forgetting something, they can always refer the books (unlike our memory, which, if lost, cannot be recovered)
Dr. Nick Riviera: 'The knee bone's connected to the something. The something's connected to the red thing. The red thing's connected to my wrist watch... Uh oh.' 🤣🤣
our memory is associative and pattern-seeking. each time it's triggered it has the potential to link whatever triggered it to that memory. implicitly telling us not to remember to keep memories "safe" is ridiculous. tiktok doctors... smh.
It's a Xerox or a Xerox, memories are stored patterns in the brain, every time we experience a memory it changes a bit because our brain is a but different. Photo copy of a photo copy, it's ok that this video was lost on you
I go through my memories with painstaking care to recall it as accurately as possible. I dont just go “Yeah, that happened.” I go through every single detail. I will forget some things, but thats just being human.
Do you write them down? Writing out the memories in as much detail as possible is a great way to avoid missing anything. I’m really bad at remembering dates, so if something important happens I try to write down where I can easily access it.
@@A_Hylian_Not_An_Elf i dont typically no. My brain just remembers the things that happened fairly often. The memories are pretty fresh because of that.
Yeah, I’ve had very clear memories that I stopped thinking about for a long time and now when I try to recall them I can barely remember a fraction of the details I used to be able to when I would think about them more, so I’m calling this one out. Even if I’m rewriting it’s like re-saving it, maybe there’s an error or two but it’s better than just not saving it and hoping it will still magically be there when I go look for it
I agree. I can barely remember most things from my childhood, because I haven’t thought about them for a long time. The only things I remember really clearly are the ones I think about every few months.
Are you able to explain people who never forget anything? How does their memory work and are they accurately remembering things super interested thank you for your time
@@randompie5558 That ain’t what the comment is referring to, there are people who can simply remember very accurate details from any day in their lives.
@@tonydai782My aunt will be 99 next birthday and she can remember every day of her life even the taste of her mothers milk. Lately though her short term memory is failing.
Once, I watched a TV show that showed multiple old women rehearsing their memories of a concentration camp during WW2. There was one german woman who had some sort of "position" in that KZ, who also remembered everything differently than the others. While most of us would agree, that a KZ would most likely not be a happy place, she always claimed it was. Like, it wasn't smelly, there were no starving or injured people and no inhumane killing was going on. I'm pretty sure she's either lying or this is what happened to her. That she repeated these "memories of a happy place" so often, she now actually believes in this
If you initially realized it was abusive, then it was. If over time you're questioning it more and more, that indicates it was abusive since your mind initially found it abusive then got more hazy and gaslit itself to question the reality of the past more and more and more with half-memories.
One of my grandma's friends always had a great story from when he had to escape the Soviets in Hungary during ww2, he wrote a book on it to, in his own words, "not keep changing the story"
@@hahano9586 I am so sorry to hear that. Maybe, you could search and find identity photos in official documents or from relatives... Your grandmother words and spirit will be always with you.
Yes i know this especially during exams i can just imagine how i started studying how hard it is and where i found my books and where i store them carefully for future exams.......coz i know I'm gonna fail
The way I imagined it was that memories are just simulations that your brain creates from the information gathered and comprehended from that time, not like a video. That's why there can be some "glitches" when remembering something such as someone talking, but not remembering exactly what they say, you only remember when they were talking because that's how your brain comprehended it as and also how your current memory is working. This is how I saw it as because there was a word that I forgot and I tried to remember a time where somebody said it, I remembered the other words they said but not the word that I was specifically looking for, when they were about to say the word it was basically muted but their mouth was moving.
I highly doubt it works this way, only if you dont remember a thing well then it gets corrupted. If you remember it well then that just reinforce a well established network.
I agree... and how exactly could they even accurately measure and prove this. I think there's different type of memories... some are hazy and we try and fill on the blanks and some are vivid and the same each time. Also there's variances in brains of different people.... like sorry you have such a crappy memory doc but mines great
@@relaxation-Corner I think you are right, hazy memories are probably those with a neural network that haven't been used a while and got pruned to some degree, and vivid ones are memories with a very strong neural netwrok that have been reinforced over time a lot (with practice)
i can assure you each time i think of the day my dad passed away i recall it 100 %. I hadnt read the pages in my journal for 14 years until i seen this video and i literally wrote it down exactly the same word for word.
Emotional events are like that, memorys fading happens much more for things with less emotional impact, still can for those events that are meaningfull hust more slowly
It's actually possible to manually destroy a memory in a single session of recollection by finding the key points in it, and forcibly substituting what I call mental gibberish in their place.
Actually you can alter traumatic memories by changing the way they are triggered. Having a glass of wine with a good friend and then talking about a horrible memory until you break down into inconsolable sobbing and being held by a safe friend can completely change the way you remember the event next time. Doctors are doing this with mind altering drugs in a controlled setting but we don't have to go quite that far to get some relief. Part of the pain of traumatic memories is that when we recall them it is like touching broken glass. If we soften that first impression, the memory can become just a memory.
Doctor,so each time you are carrying out a procedure on a patient you are becoming less of a qualified doctor because you keep loosing the memory of what you learnt from medical school to carry out a procedure and that means we should not be listening to you anymore.
He is talking about specific memories of events, which is quite different from gained knowledge that builds on existing memories. +Doctors utilize and reinforce their knowledge constantly.
Sad the bad ones when depressed never leave. They will either stay clear as day, or only turn for the worst, making things far more terrible then before. Got plenty that are bad that I remember clear as day.
I really think this is how Mandela Effects get started. Someone misremembering, talking about it and accidentally influencing others by making them rewrite the memories with new/incorrect information.
So that's why I'm failing the exams.
So I'll just touch the books the day before exam then.
That's how I do it and I'm quite alright
It's actually true when I was little, I studied a day before exam and scoredmore than my friends who always study. But I messed up in advanced studies...It doesn't work there.
Lol come Finals time then you’d be in bad shape
Hahahahah savage and so true.
@@sennie6296 I never study during exams and do better lol
Nah fam, those embarrassing moments are still vivid as hell
Yeah but she's still a wh*re. 😆 No matter how many copies I think of.
emotions 😁
and each time you replay that memory, your brain will put more and more of exaggerated painful details
I still see her disgusted face.. her laughing at me… it’s getting clearer as I imagine it further..
I still remember walking into the wrong classroom and being confused for a solid minute
This is great info for people who suffer from OCD and ruminate. I have taken a fairly innocent memory and ruminated on it til I think I’m evil and then go to apologize or “confess” to people and they’re like “that… didn’t even happen like that? Everything is fine why are you freaking out?”
Oh..
This is actually saving my life rn
Severe ocd sufferer here. I also agree. I have (professionally diagnosed) severe ocd with psychotic features. My ocd has gotten so bad, I'm on antipsychotics. I have real events, and false memory ocd. And occasionally I have harm ocd. I don't trust my memories at all. It's very upsetting
@selenawarren9142 Wow, that sounds really tough. I hope you've gotten the exact right help you need.
Thank you for this comment, OCD is no joke and this is especially important for those with false memory and real-event ocd
This hits the hardest when the faces and memmories of your dead loved ones start to become blurry. 😢
100%
This post hurt my heart. I lost the love of my life, my soulmate, over 20 years ago. The idea of my forgetting him and his face causes me physical pain.
@@amandag8194 No pictures or nothing?
@@schmoke.Probably faces in the memories they had with them
Bruh, c'mon, you had to post that comment
@@gallaxseizor9216 😭
This is true, but it’s also kinda like saying “don’t wear your shoes, every time you wear them you’re leaving little bits of them behind you as you wear them out and eventually they’ll be gone.”
You can’t enjoy your memories without thinking about them. All things are fleeting, enjoy them while you can :)
Exactly what I thought. Perfectly put.
Good comparison, very wise
Exactly. Also i believe that you will just completely forget the memory if you dont think about it. Sure the memory gets less accurate but atleast you kinda remember it
.... . .
Technically with the shoe thing my covers now has a hole 🕳 in them so ….. wasn’t like that when I purchased them 😅
unless you create more associations with that memory, that way you can remember more details and more accurately as long as you don't corrupt it with a fake bits
Exactly, it’s like having a memory for a password, for example:
Memory: **Remembering password 9383**
Remembering: **Password**
If you associate something like 9383 or repeat it multiple times to get it stuck in your head, it’ll be easier for you to remember.
You can associate 9383 with remembering it with fewer steps, 93, 83. Instead of 9383.
It still gets corrupted with new interpretation
@@tomlxyz
Corrupted or enriched?
@@Scramifyslightly of topic, but I usually remember best this way
for example
9383
two pair with 3 as a second digit
two numbers counting down from 10
I don't know how to explain it well, but I hope someone can understand me lol
@@kidkidkid792that right there is pattern recognition my friend
Good, I will continue to recall the cringey memories that I always actively try not to remember until they finally disappear.
My anxiety is now 10 times worse. Great way to start the day
@@AHDBification Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. And rats make me crazy
Don’t take on the negatives. Enjoy your memories, but just be aware they’re fading. You still can recall joy.
Doctors are crazy.
If you don't think about your memories they fade away into nothing.
Thinking about memories rewrites them everytime, and it reinforces the pathways and importance of that memory. Therefore, you won't lose the memory, but it will be a little more corrupted every time you think about it.
Memories are like politicians. Tho corrupted it's still better to have them than not
It's either slowly forget or instantly forget
Catch 22 😢
@Viktor Ng It's not better to have currupt politicians. Not at all.
@@victherocker nope.
Thanks, i really needed to spiral into an existential crisis again
same
Exactly.
Istg 😭
Same. At least we aren't alone about these thoughts
More fun when you have dead loved ones😢 Like am I erasing them every time I think about them? 😞
But I heard that recalling memories create links and makes it easier to remember them, I've read from countless books that repetition is the key to memory- the more you recall the stronger the memory
That’s probably with facts and knowledge. It may be different when it comes to looking back on the past
I do know that this is true sometimes and then with some memories i have definitely realized that the memory slowly became less clear the more i kept going back to it.
Say you see the numbers 368 and you have to remember them for whatever reason, or even a color;
often times the first time you recall the numbers to someone or yourself you end up saying it correctly, but then you go "no wait" and then come out with the wrong answer.
About that, i think you need to create the links yourself while learning. Atleast in my experience they are more vivid that way.
My memory used to be crystal clear. I got older, and my memory became like a normal person. It was a devastating realization. But you just have to accept aging.
The more often you actively remember the longer it will last.
If you don't access that memory ever it will disappear.
Yeah I completely agree, I think his logic totally wrong. Like yeah technically what he is saying is true but it’s just bullshit that the more you recall something the less you will remember it.
@@zacharysaom9846that's what I'm saying idk wtf he's talking about lmao
I think he's saying that you'll just remember it wrong, you'll still have the memory and you're more likely to remember it more often the more you recall it, but it will end up being more faulty and less accurate to how it was at the same time
@@josemaldonado4577 If you don't actively use something to reinforce your recollection, recollection alone does create inaccurate copies of the past memory variation. Just like how you need to read something multiple times for the average person to memorise some knowledge, an act of reinforcing a certain knowledge, same thing as practicing something over and over again until your body inherently remembers it and does it naturally without needing you to recall how to do it.
your brain actively deletes whatevers not used. very simple example- play a game with a custom set of controls, learn them. then stop playing for a few months. when you go back you wont remember what control does what.
As someone who has ptsd…. I can reassure people that sometimes your memory is not less accurate… some can really recall EVERYTHING 😣
And it fucking sucks reliving those moments. God it's so hard to explain sitting there and having and instants replay in your head in vivid detail
Or…mentally exaggerating the worst parts of the event.
It’s not exactly the same. It adds new trauma every time it comes back and re-traumatizes you.
@@evilsharkey8954 idk but i relive the exact same thing that happened to me (flashbacks) as a symptom of cptsd. i know that it is the exact same thing because it happened over and over to me
@@yagovich8473 It’s the same thing that happens with phobias and why they often get worse. You don’t just remember the incident. You remember the trauma of recalling it.
If you obsess over bad memories, they tend to get worse as you alter them in your mind. Instead, reminisce with friends about good times, make them even better every time you get together and talk.
Cognitive reframing of a traumatic memory.. wouldnt be possible without memorys being falable in their reconstruction so thank god we can forget memorys thru making new memorys about the past.
Thank you for this. I’ve been ruminating about something for hours now when initially after the event I wasn’t worried. The ocd “doubt” only manifested minutes after it happened now I’m wondering if I did have my face mask on (what I worried about)
@@danniellejohnson448 Ruminating is hard to snap out of, it's a miserable feedback loop that feeds anxiety. I used to get stuck in it a lot; if you notice it happening, grounding yourself can help bring you back. Different methods work for different people; or me what works is taking a deep breath and relaxing my shoulders, and then checking how long it's been since I had water or something to eat. Good luck, friend. :)
If you're a survivor of abuse/assault your memories and experience are valid, please don't gaslight yourself into thinking you might not have experienced it or you've been overreacting ❤️
That‘s why witness reports have to be done soon after a crime. The human mind doesn‘t like forgetting so it makes up new memories just to let you think you remember it.
Thank u doc. I never trusted anybody and now I can't even trust myself. 😊
That's why I've written diaries for the past 24 years.
😮
that's a great habit
i journal about my goals & mental challenges
sometimes my life
but, sometimes I feel i gotta write some manga diary on my life
@@ItsAryax manga diary? I write about everything and nothings. My latest diary has taken years to complete since I struggled with illness, both physical and mental. It's a shame really, since my memory is really poor.
@@icanhasyellow oh that's ok
keep your mental health & physical health nice take care of your body & mind
by manga diary i meant a very good interesting diary like a comic book
This is why nostalgic times always seem more pleasant than they actually were.
Many say this as well as the whole “world was brighter when we were kids”. But if anything my retention to light and detail have never felt altered to even agree with the statements. Maybe I’m still a child.
This is why I don’t study, I just remember learning it.
Thanks. Just justified my anxiety about loosing every thing I ever cared about and that all the abuse I went through is definetly imagined since I can't even rely on my fucking memories.
He's exaggerting. Especially with events that are recurring, if you were for example traumatised repeatedly, through bullying or other abuse, you might not remember each instance by itself, but you KNOW that it had been happening. I would imagine it's also a matter of complexity, the more complex a memory and the more details you try to recall, the higher the chance you'll misremember. Also, keep in mind that you need a memory of an event in the first place, to be able to misremember.
PTSD is different. We remember things as if they are still happening, so remember it all clearly
Same I was in an abusive relationship and struggle with gaslighting myself and these 'facts' literally make me start thinking what if I imagined everything and my abuser was not an abuser... Like I've been diagnosed with PTSD but shit like this makes me doubt the reality of my pain...
Interesting! Explains why it's critical to get witness statements as soon as possible.
Witness statements are less and less relied on for this very reason.
That's why I write down my favorite memories. So they won't fade over time.
For me, it's photographs. I photograph views, and art, and the first time I see something famous. One of my friends asked me why I take pictures of art when I could buy a better photo in the gift shop and I answered that it's because I don't want a better picture, I want to capture my memory.
The written word was a Great Leap Forward for humankind. Greater once most people could read for themselves, taking power away from the shamans and priests.
I was working when secretaries began to fade out if professional companies. I scared a senior engineer into learning how to type... something the secretaries did when he graduated university.
Too bad that's not what happens with embarassing memories, that sh*t always stays crystal clear in your memories
Well, this is existentially distressing.
Recalling things improves memory if you can make sure you are not getting information wrong, and correcting it if you do. You can also remember something related to it that you had previously forgotten about.
My memories are usually surrounded by events / associations, and I'm usually dead on! Journals help only if you have been 100% truthful when recording / writing something down ... Then, if you recall a memory, you can go back to your journal and see how well you really do remember what actually took place. You must be truthful in this diary / journal, or you'll be screwed! ... 👋
Yeah, this CZcams channel occasionally seems to be chasing clout. I'm sure Dr. Karan is a sweet fella, but channels gotta generate them views.
New fear unlocked: Remembering something.
I think this is part of why nostalgia can be so alluring. You can't go back and see the blemishes on the past, so the good parts just get gooder.
But if you don't recall it you stop being able to recall it
So I should constantly fixate on the most embarrassing things in my past so I can get rid of them?
Did that for 30years. Still here and now fixating on them is so ingrained in neural pathways that it's tough to function.
What this video did help me to realise is that..that past does not exist anymore. Ruminating so much definitely distorted the memory, so its not real.
Participants do not remember anymore due age.
I can let go
@@TurningTesting so, to remember is to let go?
@@marzipanmerci1068That sounds very paradoxical haha
This genuinely might be the reason im so forgetful, I keep trying to remember things to the exact thing then forget it almost entirely a few months down the road, and it actually pulled down my self esteem because I couldn’t remember a lot from the past, to the point I would write in a journal documenting something the moment after it happened just to recall it perfectly. Good to know it’s not a bad thing to continue doing that.
Got it. Don’t think. Remember everything but know nothing.
that's why I can't remember my grandma's voice. it hurts not remembering the voice of the person who raised you.
This fact is so helpful yet so depressing at the same time
That makes me so scared dude... imagine forgetting almost everything from someone you lost as a child just because you don't stop thinking about them..
teacher: "why didn't you do the homework?"
me: "miss, thinking about the past erases my memory"
......so how do doctors actually pass med school if their memories are horrible with all that information they memorize to become doctors???
Constant cycle of learning and re-learning.
That’s the curse we have to face
He most likely didn't.
Because they learn from books and the info in books is constant (unlike memory, where you can potentially forget some details).
Med students read the books, revise them several times before writing the exam . Such repetition of info will help the brain remember the details much clearly everytime. And even if they feel like theyre forgetting something, they can always refer the books (unlike our memory, which, if lost, cannot be recovered)
Doctors pass because medicine is factual .. this doctor is talking about experiences
Dude is teaching us but also teaching us not to remember what he just taught us - essentially.
So I've been trying to forget painful memories the wrong way? Goodness!
Dr. Nick Riviera:
'The knee bone's connected to the something. The something's connected to the red thing. The red thing's connected to my wrist watch... Uh oh.'
🤣🤣
our memory is associative and pattern-seeking. each time it's triggered it has the potential to link whatever triggered it to that memory. implicitly telling us not to remember to keep memories "safe" is ridiculous.
tiktok doctors... smh.
It's a Xerox or a Xerox, memories are stored patterns in the brain, every time we experience a memory it changes a bit because our brain is a but different.
Photo copy of a photo copy, it's ok that this video was lost on you
You are literally on CZcams
He is a real doctor though
I go through my memories with painstaking care to recall it as accurately as possible. I dont just go “Yeah, that happened.” I go through every single detail. I will forget some things, but thats just being human.
Do you write them down? Writing out the memories in as much detail as possible is a great way to avoid missing anything.
I’m really bad at remembering dates, so if something important happens I try to write down where I can easily access it.
@@A_Hylian_Not_An_Elf i dont typically no. My brain just remembers the things that happened fairly often. The memories are pretty fresh because of that.
This is why it can be helpful for people to keep talking about traumatic events
I'm actually remembering your memories until you forget.
Yeah, I’ve had very clear memories that I stopped thinking about for a long time and now when I try to recall them I can barely remember a fraction of the details I used to be able to when I would think about them more, so I’m calling this one out. Even if I’m rewriting it’s like re-saving it, maybe there’s an error or two but it’s better than just not saving it and hoping it will still magically be there when I go look for it
I agree. I can barely remember most things from my childhood, because I haven’t thought about them for a long time.
The only things I remember really clearly are the ones I think about every few months.
Nice dose of existential dread for the day, thanks doc ❤️
Ok that's why I am getting "low memory space" notification in my dreams
I've learned to delete memories the painful ones that aren't doing me any good.
I can't stop thinking about the past now.
Are you able to explain people who never forget anything? How does their memory work and are they accurately remembering things super interested thank you for your time
It's all about believing and practise
@@randompie5558 That ain’t what the comment is referring to, there are people who can simply remember very accurate details from any day in their lives.
@@tonydai782My aunt will be 99 next birthday and she can remember every day of her life even the taste of her mothers milk. Lately though her short term memory is failing.
@@George-ie1si I highly doubt your aunt is one of the few dozen or so people on this earth with this condition
That's actually terrifying thank you
I read somewhere that we also unconsciously “tweak” memories of bad things so that we can cope more with the memory of the event.
This is legit depressing.
Legitimately sounds like a half truth , and hes probably not even a psych major
This is why I always take so many photos so I can remember all the good times and learn from the bad ones
Nah bruh, the embarrassing moments are still vivid as fuck for me.
When I rarely recall something the details are harder to remember and at times I forget all together
Once, I watched a TV show that showed multiple old women rehearsing their memories of a concentration camp during WW2. There was one german woman who had some sort of "position" in that KZ, who also remembered everything differently than the others. While most of us would agree, that a KZ would most likely not be a happy place, she always claimed it was. Like, it wasn't smelly, there were no starving or injured people and no inhumane killing was going on. I'm pretty sure she's either lying or this is what happened to her. That she repeated these "memories of a happy place" so often, she now actually believes in this
This has left me with more questions than answers about what i thought was an abusive relationship
If you initially realized it was abusive, then it was. If over time you're questioning it more and more, that indicates it was abusive since your mind initially found it abusive then got more hazy and gaslit itself to question the reality of the past more and more and more with half-memories.
@@PhoenixFires it's far too nuanced to say that with certainty
One of my grandma's friends always had a great story from when he had to escape the Soviets in Hungary during ww2, he wrote a book on it to, in his own words, "not keep changing the story"
Ah, so that's the secret to having a perfect memory: never remember anything
That explains why I can't remember my grandmother's face anymore
Photos do exist
@@arkrules8557 All our family photos were destroyed in a tornado. Don't have any childhood photos of myself either
@@hahano9586 I am so sorry to hear that. Maybe, you could search and find identity photos in official documents or from relatives...
Your grandmother words and spirit will be always with you.
@@arkrules8557 Thanks I appreciate that
You can also ask cousins, in-laws, and their friends' children. Ancestry might help find unknown relatives.
Thank you... I needed to hear that today...❤
I still got the cringy memories I did 7 years ago, stored in my mind in 8K 240 FPS 💀
Yes i know this especially during exams i can just imagine how i started studying how hard it is and where i found my books and where i store them carefully for future exams.......coz i know I'm gonna fail
The way I imagined it was that memories are just simulations that your brain creates from the information gathered and comprehended from that time, not like a video. That's why there can be some "glitches" when remembering something such as someone talking, but not remembering exactly what they say, you only remember when they were talking because that's how your brain comprehended it as and also how your current memory is working.
This is how I saw it as because there was a word that I forgot and I tried to remember a time where somebody said it, I remembered the other words they said but not the word that I was specifically looking for, when they were about to say the word it was basically muted but their mouth was moving.
I highly doubt it works this way, only if you dont remember a thing well then it gets corrupted. If you remember it well then that just reinforce a well established network.
I agree... and how exactly could they even accurately measure and prove this. I think there's different type of memories... some are hazy and we try and fill on the blanks and some are vivid and the same each time. Also there's variances in brains of different people.... like sorry you have such a crappy memory doc but mines great
@@relaxation-Corner I think you are right, hazy memories are probably those with a neural network that haven't been used a while and got pruned to some degree, and vivid ones are memories with a very strong neural netwrok that have been reinforced over time a lot (with practice)
@@Anonymous-rj2lk I agree. Or they are more vivid because they were deemed important to the brain
@@relaxation-Corner yes, you are right, that doesnt contradict.
Amnesia patient: my memory is fucking amazing.
And yet, most of the memories I don't think about are gone anyways
Huh,maybe if I keep on remembering my embarrassing moments enough,I’ll be soon able to erase it
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So I need to think of my memories more so I can forget them. Gotcha! Love that solution. 👌
This is why daily journaling can be helpful, it gets it out of your head so you ruminate less and you can revisit anytime
Me rethinking every awkward moment in my life for a week straight so they stop haunting me before sleep.
i can assure you each time i think of the day my dad passed away i recall it 100 %. I hadnt read the pages in my journal for 14 years until i seen this video and i literally wrote it down exactly the same word for word.
Emotional events are like that, memorys fading happens much more for things with less emotional impact, still can for those events that are meaningfull hust more slowly
It's actually possible to manually destroy a memory in a single session of recollection by finding the key points in it, and forcibly substituting what I call mental gibberish in their place.
I disagree. Whenever I remember something, my story has always been consistent
Me explaining to the teacher why I failed the exam:
If only that were true. I would LOVE to erase most of my past just by remembering it.
Then we should probably keep recalling our traumas if that would erase those bad memories!
Actually you can alter traumatic memories by changing the way they are triggered. Having a glass of wine with a good friend and then talking about a horrible memory until you break down into inconsolable sobbing and being held by a safe friend can completely change the way you remember the event next time. Doctors are doing this with mind altering drugs in a controlled setting but we don't have to go quite that far to get some relief.
Part of the pain of traumatic memories is that when we recall them it is like touching broken glass. If we soften that first impression, the memory can become just a memory.
@@vickiephelps5169 I believe this is called “cognitive behavior therapy”
I wish that worked with PTSD...
"Stop thinking about the past, you're erasing your memory"
Me who writes down records: ok
So if I continue to remember an unpleasant memory it will eventually cease to exist?
I think so, you keep embellishing it until it's not so unpleasant, that's what I do.
You will remeber those memories but with less details. After some time you won't know if that memory was real or a dream.
How to forget those bad incidents..? I can remember them with every detail
Doctor,so each time you are carrying out a procedure on a patient you are becoming less of a qualified doctor because you keep loosing the memory of what you learnt from medical school to carry out a procedure and that means we should not be listening to you anymore.
He is talking about specific memories of events, which is quite different from gained knowledge that builds on existing memories. +Doctors utilize and reinforce their knowledge constantly.
True, except for traumatic memories, which makes them a problem.
If I am not supposed to recall my memories....then I may as well not have a memory at all.
That makes absolutely no sense, because memories fade faster when you don't think about them
Goddamn gotta start thinking about those bad, cringe middle school memories. I want them to go away lol
**im using this video againts my math teacher**
Oh wow, that's why good memories that I think about a lot are harder to remember than bad memories that I hardly think about.
Thanks for reminding me what I'm terrified the most.
And schools be wondering why we failing exams we study for💀💀
The trauma that doesn't erase.
And the good af Memory that keeps me going.
Explains why eye witnesses are notoriously terrible witnesses.
Tell that to my extreme brain, if I'm not living in the future I'm living in the past, I live on various continuums, all because of severe anxiety
Sad the bad ones when depressed never leave. They will either stay clear as day, or only turn for the worst, making things far more terrible then before. Got plenty that are bad that I remember clear as day.
This explains so much... perhaps useful to get over bad relationships though? Process and erase- just defo unhealthy to keep doing down the line
Why is he convincing me that thinking of cringe memories is good?
I really think this is how Mandela Effects get started. Someone misremembering, talking about it and accidentally influencing others by making them rewrite the memories with new/incorrect information.
That's actually very helpful with trauma
Implying the first time you remember something will be 100% accurate is super flawed lmaoo
Yes.
Also, he didn't even just "imply" that, either--. He actually stated it verbatim.
That explains why I can’t remember my childhood up to 12 or 13 I want to so bad I don’t even remember what snow feels like😢