"Perhaps our brains (as they are essentially sponges at that early age) can retain sequences of sounds like an vague echo which we later can apply language to and understand."
This could be reality for some people. Some have photographic memories. Maybe some can apply it to aural (sound pattern) recollection rather than visual.
I suggest it's definitely possible to remember, and understand later on what was said around you before you knew how to speak.
My long term memory is extremely acute. I can look at all my grade school pictures and name everyone in my classes by first and last name, also every teacher I've ever had, and every subject they taught me back to grade 1. That's how I happen to remember that one aspect of school. I have my visa card with expiry, bank card, social insurance number all memorized. I work on differernt companies networks. For one I keep about 20 users passwords memorized. For another client about a dozen. Phone numbers is another plus.
I don't try or a make a point of remembering. I just seem to remember things that are of notable interest.
I think if you are musically inclined it makes a big difference.
Damn...that is pretty impressive.
Seeing visions of falling up somehow.
Pensacola '94 New Orleans '95 Birmingham '98 New Orleans '00 New Orleans '03 Tampa '08 New Orleans '10 - Jazzfest New Orleans '16 - Jazzfest Fenway Park '18 St. Louis '22
My long term memory is extremely acute. I can look at all my grade school pictures and name everyone in my classes by first and last name, also every teacher I've ever had, and every subject they taught me back to grade 1. That's how I happen to remember that one aspect of school. I have my visa card with expiry, bank card, social insurance number all memorized. I work on differernt companies networks. For one I keep about 20 users passwords memorized. For another client about a dozen. Phone numbers is another plus.
My memory is much like yours. I can remember all my teachers and classmates going all the way back to kindergarten. I have all my cards and passwords memorized, as well as my Ten Club number. Until I got my cell phone, I probably had a hundred phone numbers stored in my head ... I voice dial everything now, so I don't know them the way I used to, but I can still tell you the phone numbers of my three best friends from junior high (that was 30 years ago). I can remember entire conversations from elementary school, including what everyone was wearing and what the weather was like. I have quite a few memories from preschool years, although just the one that I know for sure is from before I could talk at all. There's another that may have been before I was talking too ... I was outside and I picked a flower, and my grandfather came over and picked me up and I was sticking the flower in his nose so he could smell it. I don't remember any words at all, but I remember both of us laughing and that I was really happy, and that I was wearing a little white jumper with daisies on it and that the sun was really bright, and my grandmother was on the porch smiling at us.
My short term memory is another story ... I just tried to remember which pants I was wearing, and without looking down I couldn't do it, and I've already forgotten whether I parked on level 2 or level 3 this morning
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
My memory is much like yours. I can remember all my teachers and classmates going all the way back to kindergarten. I have all my cards and passwords memorized, as well as my Ten Club number. Until I got my cell phone, I probably had a hundred phone numbers stored in my head ... I voice dial everything now, so I don't know them the way I used to, but I can still tell you the phone numbers of my three best friends from junior high (that was 30 years ago). I can remember entire conversations from elementary school, including what everyone was wearing and what the weather was like. I have quite a few memories from preschool years, although just the one that I know for sure is from before I could talk at all. There's another that may have been before I was talking too ... I was outside and I picked a flower, and my grandfather came over and picked me up and I was sticking the flower in his nose so he could smell it. I don't remember any words at all, but I remember both of us laughing and that I was really happy, and that I was wearing a little white jumper with daisies on it and that the sun was really bright, and my grandmother was on the porch smiling at us.
My short term memory is another story ... I just tried to remember which pants I was wearing, and without looking down I couldn't do it, and I've already forgotten whether I parked on level 2 or level 3 this morning
I didn't think it was possible to remember events from before you could speak but after reading your post and Rolands I am starting to think it is.
Seeing visions of falling up somehow.
Pensacola '94 New Orleans '95 Birmingham '98 New Orleans '00 New Orleans '03 Tampa '08 New Orleans '10 - Jazzfest New Orleans '16 - Jazzfest Fenway Park '18 St. Louis '22
just think of it as forgetting where you put your car keys
your mind slowly digs it up and tells you where you left them
memories are memories and i don't really think you ever lose them
I will have to strongly disagree. Memories are stored in pockets of neurons which require refiring or they lose their potency and eventually become associated with something else. Most memory recalling is simply implanting memories. For example, I have a 'memory' of riding my bicycle behind my brother, racing him, cutting across the street and seeing this truck slam into me. But this is not an actual memory from the time it happened, it's a memory I've constructed around the story.
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
Comments
Damn...that is pretty impressive.
Pensacola '94
New Orleans '95
Birmingham '98
New Orleans '00
New Orleans '03
Tampa '08
New Orleans '10 - Jazzfest
New Orleans '16 - Jazzfest
Fenway Park '18
St. Louis '22
My short term memory is another story ... I just tried to remember which pants I was wearing, and without looking down I couldn't do it, and I've already forgotten whether I parked on level 2 or level 3 this morning
I didn't think it was possible to remember events from before you could speak but after reading your post and Rolands I am starting to think it is.
Pensacola '94
New Orleans '95
Birmingham '98
New Orleans '00
New Orleans '03
Tampa '08
New Orleans '10 - Jazzfest
New Orleans '16 - Jazzfest
Fenway Park '18
St. Louis '22
just think of it as forgetting where you put your car keys
your mind slowly digs it up and tells you where you left them
memories are memories and i don't really think you ever lose them
I will have to strongly disagree. Memories are stored in pockets of neurons which require refiring or they lose their potency and eventually become associated with something else. Most memory recalling is simply implanting memories. For example, I have a 'memory' of riding my bicycle behind my brother, racing him, cutting across the street and seeing this truck slam into me. But this is not an actual memory from the time it happened, it's a memory I've constructed around the story.