Recently, my life feels like a blur, like I dont really remember what happened even in the past 2 weeks, and this has cause me some anxiety.
I just want to know if this is what everyone’s memory is like.
How much of your life do you remember, like do you only remember major events in your life, or do you remember like what you have been doing for the past 2 weeks.
What I mean is like, if someone asked you “So, what have you been last week”
You can come up with an answer like:
“So I watched [X] movie on Netflix on Monday, went to a nearby park on Tuesday, ate at [X] restaurant on Wednesday, found a new interesting Youtube Channel to watch on Thursday, petted a friendly neighborhood cat on Friday…” etc…
And like you can still remember what happened that week the following Monday.
Like obviously most people wouldn’t remember what they ate every meal, but like just one major event that happened each day.
I feel like I don’t remember shit. Not a single event.
No joke, I opened this thread to comment on it last night and forgot until I saw it in my feed again today.
I started keeping a diary, and I found that helps. Something about writing things down helps encode memories, but then if you do forget you have a reminder.
In particular my gratitude journal is helpful. I often find myself in a state where I can’t think of a single good thing going on in my life. But then going through it I read about how a stray cat came to sit in my lap in the garden, and while I didn’t remember that before I read it the memories come flooding back.
I don’t regularly keep a journal, but knowing I have a dogshit memory, I kept a daily journal when I went to Japan for two weeks earlier this year. It really helped me to remember the little things. I’ll probably keep a travel journal for all future trips that I want to remember in detail. Plus, it’s fun to read back on occasionally.