Posted by littleone on October 31, 2004, at 22:44:59
In reply to Re: Memories *could be a trigger, about dead people* » littleone, posted by Dinah on October 31, 2004, at 21:04:47
>But only the memory *that* it happened is left. The details are gone.
I know exactly what you mean there. That pretty much sums up my whole childhood memories. I *know* I used to love playing hopscotch as a kid, but I cannot remember a single hopscotch incident. Not that they'd have been truly memorable anyway. It's not like they were surrounded by controversy :). But it would still be nice to have pleasant, uneventful memories too to balance things out.
Anyway, I have another question for you. I don't dissociate as such. I know I kind of just fade away when I'm with my T sometimes, but I'm never far far away (just anchored offshore a little). But I was thinking that there would be a strong a link between your (or anyone's) dissociation and memory. Wouldn't disassociation be a way for you to blank out the present moment, deny the existance of whatever is occuring and also deny the future memory of that present moment? Did I make sense just then? When you disassociate, do you have no memory of what has happened? Do you even have a general sense that something happened? Also, I've kind of wondered if when you "go away" are your senses aware enough to know when it is safe to come back, or do you literally *need* to be pulled back by someone?
> About dead people in particular. My family was a big open casket funeral family. And the funerals were a family affair with kids invited. I'm sure I saw lots of dead bodies - it being a big family that mainly died young, and with that fascination kids have for sneaking peeks at grisly sights. But I only remember one.
I was actually just thinking about this on the weekend and knew that theoretically it could be one explanation for the dead people. But no, I've never been to an open casket funeral. I wish it could be explained away that simply.
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