FROM THE ESSEX THREAD Discussing Tycho's condition: The 'narrative we all create of our lives is a fiction that we...
FROM THE ESSEX THREAD Discussing Tycho's condition: The 'narrative we all create of our lives is a fiction that we use to order often times random events. Certain things are given great emphasis, while others are not. I am doing scholarship on this subject a this very moment. I should capture these thoughts. Thoughts flit by like this stream of comments, but some are important. Some should be mounted on the wall of the mind.
My thoughts are jumbled and I am aware of it. It is as if my calendar has been scrambled... The table of contents has been re-ordered...
ReplyDeleteEdgar Allan Wright did you have any journals or notes that could help you reconstruct your past? Could your previous works help anchor your memories to reality and synthesize new results from the past?
ReplyDeleteAre you still experiencing lost memories, or do you feel the full scope of your own past will be recoverable in time?
ReplyDeleteThey are not lost, they are simply not ordered. Images without context. It is as if life is a puzzle. An interesting experiment to try if you have ever kept a journal is to write your version of a period of your life and then compare it to your journal entries. Even better if you overlay it with a calendar.
ReplyDeleteAlso - this was an interesting article - especially this blurb - "In fact, Loftus' research shows your memory works more like a Wikipedia page -- a transcription of history created by multiple people's perceptions and assumptions that's constantly changing."
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2013/05/18/health/lifeswork-loftus-memory-malleability/