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Prowl
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Post subject: How Do You Identify Memories And Past Dates Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 10:45 am |
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Is this normal? I only just realised I do it.
When trying to work out when something happened in my past, I struggle to remember the month, and often the year.
However, to specify it in my mind, I go by who I was dating at the time (if anyone), and use that as my foundation for establishing a rough date for a past occurrence.
What do you use to sort through your past?
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Post subject: How Do You Identify Memories And Past Dates Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 10:47 am |
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My eidetic memory.
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Post subject: How Do You Identify Memories And Past Dates Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 10:47 am |
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Post subject: How Do You Identify Memories And Past Dates Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 10:48 am |
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Prowl wrote: Is this normal? I only just realised I do it.
When trying to work out when something happened in my past, I struggle to remember the month, and often the year.
However, to specify it in my mind, I go by who I was dating at the time (if anyone), and use that as my foundation for establishing a rough date for a past occurrence.
What do you use to sort through your past? Where I was living.
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Post subject: How Do You Identify Memories And Past Dates Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 10:52 am |
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Who I was dating, where I was living, what pet I had, that sort of thing. I do it all the time. Then there's 18-25, which I have almost no memory of, no matter what.
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Steve
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Post subject: How Do You Identify Memories And Past Dates Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 10:54 am |
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What do you call a camel with three humps?
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Crystal meth will do that. 
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Steve
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Post subject: How Do You Identify Memories And Past Dates Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 10:55 am |
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What do you call a camel with three humps?
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I often recall events tied in to what movie I had just gone to see.
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Post subject: How Do You Identify Memories And Past Dates Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 10:55 am |
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Steve wrote: Crystal meth will do that.   Never. But...other things with less permanent after-effects will do it too. 
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Steve
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Post subject: How Do You Identify Memories And Past Dates Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 10:56 am |
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What do you call a camel with three humps?
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Seems like a pretty permanent after-effect to me. 
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Post subject: How Do You Identify Memories And Past Dates Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 10:59 am |
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Sorry, what were we talking about here, and who are you again?
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Post subject: How Do You Identify Memories And Past Dates Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 11:01 am |
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It scorched
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Where I was living. I tie it to where I was living at the time.
That's one reason it's hard for me to nail down dates over the last 12 years. I've been in the same house and the same job for 12 years. Same office, even.
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Post subject: How Do You Identify Memories And Past Dates Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 11:03 am |
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What do you call a camel with three humps?
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Do you find yourself with a large automobile?
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Post subject: How Do You Identify Memories And Past Dates Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 11:05 am |
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I changed girlfriends a lot more than I changed addresses or employment. Guess that is the most variable aspect of my life, to a certain point, at least.
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Post subject: How Do You Identify Memories And Past Dates Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 11:25 am |
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The Top 40 hits of the time period.
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Post subject: How Do You Identify Memories And Past Dates Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 11:55 am |
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Good Stuff, Maynard!
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Where I was living or what job I had, mostly.
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Post subject: How Do You Identify Memories And Past Dates Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 12:15 pm |
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Hey, brother
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usually by where I was living or where I was working. where I was working is a bit tougher, since I've had over ten jobs in the past 8 years, often working two or three jobs at a time.
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Post subject: How Do You Identify Memories And Past Dates Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 1:35 pm |
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I guess I just remember them. I haven't had all that many different employers or cities of residence over the years.
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Post subject: How Do You Identify Memories And Past Dates Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 1:42 pm |
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Post subject: How Do You Identify Memories And Past Dates Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 1:52 pm |
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It scorched
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Most of the time when I imagine a scene in a book I'm reading, it takes place in one of the houses I have lived (from childhood on), or outdoors near one of the houses. The mansion of my head is filled with the rooms of every place I've ever lived, and the yards surrounding them.
So often when I have a memory of something, I associate it with a room.
When I think of the movie Dumb and Dumber, I immediately think 1994, because I remember seeing the ads for it in the den of a rental house I was living in at that time. I picture myself in it seeing a Dumb and Dumber commercial. We moved out of that house in early 1995. I associate that house (the second one) with Toy Story. Because I remember Toy Story coming out while we lived there.
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Post subject: How Do You Identify Memories And Past Dates Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 1:52 pm |
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I usually have a keepsake put in a very private location from all the the vict... I mean...  Nevermind.
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Post subject: How Do You Identify Memories And Past Dates Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 2:01 pm |
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I just pretend that the world was created yesterday, with everything (my memories, Shakespeare's writings, dinosaur bones, etc.) already in place. That way it doesn't matter.
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Post subject: How Do You Identify Memories And Past Dates Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 2:09 pm |
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