Do you have any weird black holes in your memory?

[Deleted]

Especially ones that bug you?

I cannot--cannot--remember what I wore in college on a day to day basis, and it bugs the hell out of me sometimes. I can remember what I wore going out, but on a regular basis? It seems like such a weird thing not remember.

Deep thoughts for a Friday night.

[hamster]

Not particularly, but I do have a memory vent! I can remember the most mundane conversation I had with a person years ago, but I can't remember what I need at the grocery store.

[imojoebunny]

I went to pick up a kid from school today. I went to the wrong school (DD's not DS's. They get out at different times). Didn't realize it until I was in the parking lot. Don't know if that is memory, but it is a good indicator I rely on rote memory for a lot of my actions.

[agnes]

Apr 18, 2014 22:01:55 GMT -5 hamster said:

Not particularly, but I do have a memory vent! I can remember the most mundane conversation I had with a person years ago, but I can't remember what I need at the grocery store.

see I have this AND the black hole.

I'll be having a conversations with BFF (who I grew up with) about a major event in our young lives and don't remember a thing. But I can tell you that the sorta pet chicken she had in 8th grade was named Tre, which she didn't even remember.

I don't even remember what I wore yesterday.

[sixtwelve]

Apr 18, 2014 21:52:05 GMT -5 @mrschicken said:

Especially ones that bug you?

I cannot--cannot--remember what I wore in college on a day to day basis, and it bugs the hell out of me sometimes. I can remember what I wore going out, but on a regular basis? It seems like such a weird thing not remember.

Deep thoughts for a Friday night.

I can't remember this either and I agree it is odd.

[halfpint]

Like, half of college.
Most of my memories of my senior year are a blur of sticky floors, quarter draws, dollar you-call-its, and waking up on the floor of my room in my bar clothes.
Right after graduation I moved to London, and a summer that should have been full of memories is largely a blank - I carried on drinking right through that summer, combine that with spending a lot of time with a pot smoking BF, and I remember very little of that year.

[rikki]

I have one, but it isn't really weird, and I think that it is selective and at one time was a coping mechanism. I have no memory of giving birth to my daughter that I placed for adoption. There was a documentary made about it and I can only remember what I have seen on the film. I don't remember contractions, or pushing, or holding her for the first time. I don't remember letting go and placing her in her mother's arms. I don't remember her cries or what holding her felt like. It breaks my heart now as a mother to know what I missed out on with her and it makes me especially sad that I cannot remember the few precious moments when she was mine.

[agnes]

kooshball not that I'm liking the fact that have holes in your brain, but you crack me up

[juliabug]

When I was coming out of sedation from having my wisdom teeth removed, I distinctly remember waking up and sitting up on the bed in the outpatient room and I was wearing my own clothes already instead of the hospital gown. I was wondering who dressed me and I got really upset when no one would answer me. Turns out I dressed myself and I had already been awake for a while but I was never able to remember anything before the point when I thought I had just woken up. 

[Deleted]

Yep, my entire wedding day. I remember the rehearsal and dinner then basically nothing until the day after.

I have a fantastic memory, and remember very odd, random things so the fact I can't remember so much of such an important day is upsetting for me.

[Kore]

So much of high school. I remember almost no names of classmates, teachers, etc. I'm pretty sure I've suppressed it. High school sucked.

[gibbinator]

I don't know :-P if so, I don't remember what they are.

[lime]

I wore baby T's and boxer shorts in college, usually with keds.

I am rather disappointed that I can still remember that. My standard excuse is that Kurt Cobain was alive at the time. Like that somehow makes it ok.

[livinitup]

College everyday clothes? Ha ha ha. That would be the sweatshirt and the jeans. 

Thats it. 

Sometimes a a ball cap.

[darkling_glory]

Apr 18, 2014 22:37:10 GMT -5 agnes said:

Apr 18, 2014 22:01:55 GMT -5 hamster said:

Not particularly, but I do have a memory vent! I can remember the most mundane conversation I had with a person years ago, but I can't remember what I need at the grocery store.

see I have this AND the black hole.

I'll be having a conversations with BFF (who I grew up with) about a major event in our young lives and don't remember a thing. But I can tell you that the sorta pet chicken she had in 8th grade was named Tre, which she didn't even remember.

I don't even remember what I wore yesterday.

I feel like this a lot! My cousins or sister will talk about all these things we did as children and I remember nothing.

I was just talking to my husband about this because I was concerned something was wrong with me.

[Deleted]

Yes, and at times it scares me.
I can not recall any of my miscarriage. I have no idea what went on those 3 days after. It happened on a Wednesday and I was back to work Friday. I have no idea why or what I did.
There are a few other times in my life, nothing traumatic, but certainly not fun times that I can not recall. Months of no idea...

[wanderlustmom]

Apr 18, 2014 23:40:10 GMT -5 kooshball said:

Brag Plant! I have an actual black hole in my brain. It's by my language part of my brain which is why sometimes I sound drunk by slurring, skipping and combining words.

Jealous huh?

Bummer, I may have this too. I stutter sometimes and it will come out of the blue. I also have huge black holes in my memory. From recent and long ago.  Did a marathon in November and forget about eight miles of it. I remember reading in psych class that memory is elusive 

[LoveTrains]

Apr 19, 2014 15:31:21 GMT -5 livinitup said:

College everyday clothes? Ha ha ha. That would be the sweatshirt and the jeans. 

Thats it. 

Sometimes a a ball cap.

LOL yup. In college I had this particular navy blue hoodie that I loved. I wore it basically every day over ever changing t-shirts with jeans and birkenstocks.

I wore my birkenstocks all winter long in college - and I went to college with a long winter with full snow cover from Dec - March. 

[Deleted]

I went on a business trip in 2011 and booked extra days in the area and turned it into a vacation. It was a whirlwind trip and very fast paced. I've tried so many times to remember the last day. I remember sitting on the toilet towards the end of the trip and changing the flight to stay an extra day. I don't remember what we did on the extra day, or catching a flight the next morning, or anything about the airport or the flight home, or even getting home.

[livinitup]

Apr 19, 2014 17:35:25 GMT -5 LoveTrains said:

Apr 19, 2014 15:31:21 GMT -5 livinitup said:

College everyday clothes? Ha ha ha. That would be the sweatshirt and the jeans. 

Thats it. 

Sometimes a a ball cap.

LOL yup. In college I had this particular navy blue hoodie that I loved. I wore it basically every day over ever changing t-shirts with jeans and birkenstocks.

I wore my birkenstocks all winter long in college - and I went to college with a long winter with full snow cover from Dec - March. 

Birkenstocks!

Winter = Thick wool socks

[CloudBee]

I have really bad shorterm memory.

[mrsukyankee]

As I've gotten older, the memories of my youth and 20s are going away. I figure it's to make way for the new memories that I'm making now (and because, honestly, the old memories aren't all that important any longer to me so I can imagine why they aren't sticking).

[niq]

Apr 20, 2014 13:04:13 GMT -5 CloudBee said:

I have really bad shorterm memory.

I think that condition is called "parenthood". There's a cure but it takes 18 years to work.

But seriously, I think being a parent just means there's more stuff to remember, so more stuff to forget, and it's easier to exhaust the amount of short term RAM in the human brain.

[Deleted]

Most of my childhood is missing, which I think is weird. I had kind of a fucked up childhood - or at least some parts of it were - so I understand those holes, but you would think I'd remember the normal stuff.

[schrodinger]

I did an Ironman a few years ago and have no memories from that day. Someone else mentioned not remembering their wedding day, and that's kind of how this was for me. A huge event with a ton of build-up leading up to it, and then . . . no memories at all. So weird.

[jlt19]

Yes. Apparently on our honeymoon we helped baby turtles get to the ocean (with the professionals) and I don't remember this AT ALL. DH says we weren't even drunk at this point in the morning. But I do remember seeing a really old man with a really young woman at dinner one night and making up different scenarios about their life. Pretty sure we were intoxicated at that point.