• Why do we forget? Should we forget more as we age? List some tips for memory improvement.?
Question by stevo: • Why do we forget? Should we forget more as we age? List some tips for memory improvement.?
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Answer by speedy g
Actually, there are 3 things came to my mind:
1. Non-Pharmacological Treatment; that includes many ideas such as: Building trust in yourself that you’ll not forget, practise your mind with simple puzzle games or simple math games, relaxation, good quality food, happiness, good sleep (at least 8 hours), …etc.
2. Any pharmaceutical preparation containing (Methionine), which is usually found in some multivitamin preparations.
3. Notropil, under physician prescription only.
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We forget for 3 reasons – 1. We don;t encode the information properly to start with i.e. we weren’t paying attention in class and although we heard what was said, it didn’t stick in our brain 2. We also forget because sometimes the storage of memory goes wrong – things are stored first in short term memory and then go into long term memory, but sometimes this just doesn’t happen. 3. There are also problems with retrieval – we have said the name of that song 100 time, but for some reason it eludes us just at the moment.
I haven’t read any research that says our memories get worse as we get older (unless you get senile or something) and I don’t see why it should, but who knows.
For memory improvement: 1. pay attention if you want to remember 2. make sure thinks get from short to long-term memory by repeating them over and over 3. Make sure you retrieve these memories fairly often so you don’t forget the information when you need it.
The brain, although well developed and highly intelligent isn’t perfect. From a moment to moment basis it takes in a lot of information of everything that is happening at that particular moment. Of course, this is a lot of information and most of it is completely useless yet the brain tries to categorise as much as it can. It’s believed that less than 10% of what we perceive is actually retained or always accessible. The information isn’t ‘lost’ per se, it becomes blurred by too much information at the moment and in more recent events it has become irretreivable. It’s not very different from a corrupted data file on a computer.
don’t know i forgot
i cant remember
i think it narmal to forget we cannot remmber everything.
maybe some people forget because we all have different size memory banks..
it is a fine line between sanity and insanity..
back in the day some people who were clever and came out with extra-ordinary things were some-times looked upon as crazy because it was deemed as impossible to do..
nowadays they are called entrepreneurs,
thats my opinion and im sticking to it lol
brain training on DS
great question!
Wish i could give an answer other than my own experience which has stemmed from substance abuse
Because as we age we lose connections between some brain cells.
sometimes it because of a busy life but leave things that will remind you of things.
We don’t forget, we simply can’t recall. The information , once in our memory, stays there unless there is some damage to the brain at a later date.
Have you ever tried to remember something and you can’t, then later someone says something that triggers that memory?
Then there’s the tip of your tongue phenomenon, you know that you know it but you can’t recall it.
We don’t lose our memory as we get older, old people can often remember things that happened 60 years ago or longer. The memory problems that some old people have are committing an event to memory, so again, they don’t forget because it never made it into long term memory.
Memory is like everything else, if you don’t use it, you’ll lose it.