Posted by Pennie Lane on August 28, 2001, at 22:47:16
In reply to strange memory loss, posted by nevaeh on August 28, 2001, at 17:24:18
nevaeh
Context seems to matter, too. Were these particularly relevant meetings or phone calls, or were they rather insignificant events that occurred while you were busy or were profoundly interested in something else? Maybe it's not a memory block - maybe you just never formed a strong memory of contact with that person.
Memory is a strange thing. I don't want to rule anything out, but the *normal* workings of memory are quite ambiguous. Even the things we think we remember are often products of confabulation or they are a little bit of what happened and a little bit of what we think happened. And "witnesses" often have a different impression of events than our own impression and sometimes do not accurately recall what really occurred, either. Sometimes the power of two or three witnesses agreeing among themselves that something happened can reinforce their mistaken ideas about what happened.
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