Date: 2/5/2004 12:43:00 PM
From Authorid: 39107
being relaxed does the trick  |
Date: 2/5/2004 12:45:00 PM
From Authorid: 50758
That would be very useful and has me curious, too. I wish I could remember everything. But I dont know of any proven ways. This is interesting, tough.  |
Date: 2/5/2004 12:52:00 PM
From Authorid: 50864
Sometimes a certain smell, sound, words spoken or seeing an object can trigger a flood of long forgotten or buried memories. For example seeing a bottle of Karo syrup brought back a vivid memory of my Mom giving me baby asprin in a spoon of Karo syrup  |
Date: 2/5/2004 1:22:00 PM
From Authorid: 62408
I agree with Mrs. Strider.. it's sometimes called like a pseudo-hypnosis, were you go into a progressive relaxation (you can learn how to do this yourself...just a matter of gradually tensing and relaxing different muscle groups of the body until your whole body is relaxed). It also helps if you have memoriabilia around. (An old picture, article of clothing, etc.) And focus in on it. The main reason that hypnotists, psychiatrists, etc. recommend that it be done professionally is that if for some reason a bad memory be triggered they can bring you out of your relaxed state faster than you can yourself, where you might stay there longer, and be haunted my memories. A true hypnotist can also arrange for a way that if you prefer, you will or will not remember anything you said. Or they can tape the session, then it's your choice whether or not you listen to what you said. I've not dealt with this personally, but have known others who have.  |
Date: 2/5/2004 2:08:00 PM
From Authorid: 12453
I have the saaaaaaaaaaaaame problem! I can't remember what I did yesterday or what I ate or anything. I have a short term memory, but it's okay. Let me know if you learn a new way to help trigger memory cuz I need all the help I can get   |
Date: 2/5/2004 2:33:00 PM
From Authorid: 62249
Idk if it would work for others, but if I do something similar to somethign i've already done... i get like dé ja vu, lol except i know i have done it befroe, and the memory comes back to me. - MC Bacon  |
Date: 2/5/2004 3:12:00 PM
From Authorid: 16845
memories generally come flooding back to me when I'm right about to fall asleep. Good to see ya around dani   |
Date: 2/5/2004 4:39:00 PM
From Authorid: 54987
Practice.... like learning any new skill. You start off trying to remember what you did last week. Sit down and relax and just concentrate on trying to remember what you were doing on the same day last week. Now it is not so much what you remember, but the act of remembering that triggers memory. An analogy is that ... say you left some papers in a roomful of filing cabinets a few years ago and you wanted to retrieve them. You didn't remember which cabinet they were in and none of them are labelled. So you would go through the cabinets. As you go through the act of searching your memory starts kicking in and you start remembering which side of the room the cabinet was... that there was an old pipe on the wall... the memories come faster through the act of trying to remember. Some have said that you can access memories of past lives this way. So as you practice the further back you can go. You will find that exact time doesn't matter any more.  |
Date: 2/5/2004 5:01:00 PM
From Authorid: 1799
actually, not all memories are stores in your brain (i'm in psychology class, and off we go into this)... sometimes things happen to fast for the brain to store, or the brain doesn't want to store it (this usually happens when there is abuse and such.. which is why some people don't know that it ever happened, and some don't remember things from their past). You might be able to trigger old memories, but hypnosis wouldn't be the way.. psychologists tend to be iffy on trying to bring back old memories, because they've found that sometimes the memories that pop up didn't really happen, but the person thinks it did. A woman a while back had a pretty bad childhood, and when she went into therapy, she recovered a memory of her father killing someone.. they convicted him on her word and kept him in jail for two years before they realized that the memories coming back from her treatment weren't real. they had other memories they could actually check up on, and most of them proved to be false. Some people even implant ideas in the mind (some do it consciously, the others have no idea they are doing it.) its risky..  |
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Date: 2/5/2004 5:50:00 PM ( Admin-DNL )
thanks everyone for the replies! |
Date: 2/19/2004 1:01:00 PM
From Authorid: 22275
i have NO idea  |
Date: 11/7/2004 3:50:00 AM
From Authorid: 49763
I wouldn't neccisarily say you trigger a memory more so as when you hear, see, discuss, etc something similar to a previous event your mind is more geared toward the subject and you are more likely to remember since you are thinking on the same subject line. WoW that's a run on sentence if I ever saw one. ~~  |
Date: 4/30/2005 7:32:00 PM
From Authorid: 11567
Hmmm, first off, HAHAHA (The Snapple Lady) I couldnt comment under that dream post. And this, I do sort of have this trigger thing happen to me, I remembered an embarassing thing that happend to me a long time ago today because of where I was. Until that moment I had totally forgotten it... So annoying it is, to know that there are so many things in your mind that you cant reach...  |
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Date: 4/30/2005 7:32:00 PM
From Authorid: 11567
What a pity! |
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