I have realised that in this process of remembering every day that passes, older memories are easier to recall.
This makes perfect sense. I have been reviewing the earliest images pinned to my mental calendar as memory tags at least once per month for over three years.
As I've noticed before, the past week presents me with the greatest problems. My active memory creates noise with many recollections from those days and it is only with time that I settle on the key images, and possibly a theme for successive days, to pin down.
I don't know if I will ever reach the magical state of true hyperthymesia, where my brain serves up memories without the memory tricks I have developed to stop these memory tags from fading away.
However, I believe my review process will be sustainable for some years to come. So far I have not lost a day of the past three plus years.
The revelation that older memories become easier to recall through repetition takes away some of the apprehension that blanks will, at some point, start to appear.
This makes perfect sense. I have been reviewing the earliest images pinned to my mental calendar as memory tags at least once per month for over three years.
As I've noticed before, the past week presents me with the greatest problems. My active memory creates noise with many recollections from those days and it is only with time that I settle on the key images, and possibly a theme for successive days, to pin down.
I don't know if I will ever reach the magical state of true hyperthymesia, where my brain serves up memories without the memory tricks I have developed to stop these memory tags from fading away.
However, I believe my review process will be sustainable for some years to come. So far I have not lost a day of the past three plus years.
The revelation that older memories become easier to recall through repetition takes away some of the apprehension that blanks will, at some point, start to appear.
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