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Lemmings, how good or bad would you decribe your ability to remember things? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

The best way to test this is to take a break. The first thing I notice, after about 2 weeks (YMMV), is my memory seems to improve dramatically. That and my perception of time seems to change - in general, things move slower/more sensory information fills the same amount of time - which I think is related to memory.

Now, the question becomes: Is that purely because I stopped smoking weed, or because I'm having a comparatively novel experience of my day to day activities - where the salience of things in your environment increases, which means it's easier to form and recall a memory of them? Or is it just that I'm eating better, getting more exercise, etc. as means to distract from wanting to smoke in the early break stages?

No idea. All I know is it's pretty sweet until (for me, at max so far) six months out when smoking seems like a great idea again.