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Originally Posted by SolitaryPenguin
So I got to thinking this morning, which is both dangerous and frightening, but hear me out.
How do you guys/gals remember things? I am talking everything, like where you put stuff, people's faces, phone numbers, important dates, etcetera.
For me, I find that each of these has their own sense tied to how I remember them.
For instance, if I watch myself set my car keys down somewhere, I know exactly where they are the next time I need to find them, even if it is a week later. As long as I have that visual picture in my mind, I can remember. I am screwed if I don't though.
Also, I have a photographic memory when it comes to phone numbers, as long as I can see them writtin down. I don't have to do the writing, but I have to see it written, and then POOF, stuck there forever.
Lastly, I can remember most people by smell. Not necessarily a perfume type smell, but just something that comes off them when I meet them for longer than 2 minutes. The smell somehow translates in my head to a visual of the face it belongs to.
Do you have any strange or interesting ways that you process memory this way?
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Yeah, I take visual "snapshots" of where I put important stuff. I
have to put certain things like my purse and my keys in the same spot every time I come into the house or I might just set them down some place and spend forever looking for them later (done that too many times in the past...). Actually, all of my purses are in a cupboard in our living room, so when I want to change purses, I don't have to ever take the stuff in them them anywhere else in the house, which removes the possibility of my setting my wallet down somewhere and then forgetting where I put it. Any facts I have to remember get written in the notes section of my Filofax calendar, and I would be totally screwed if I ever lost that thing. I have to check to make sure I always have it with me at work every day, and I always take it home. I've lost several really good watches due to taking them off when I felt like it and then not remembering where they are, so now I keep my current watch either near my keys, on a dish on a side table near the door, or on my dresser -- I make myself NEVER put it anywhere but in one of those two places. I also NEVER allow myself to put the keys anywhere else when I come home but on that dish near the door (because I've lost them several times and that was no fun)....
As for umbrellas and gloves... *sigh* they still get lost when I take them places and then forget about them. I just don't buy expensive gloves anymore except for one pair that I MAKE myself keep track of whenever I wear them (they're just too nice to get lost).
Faces are easy to remember -- I have a great visual memory -- but remembering the names that go wtih those faces is impossible unless I repeat their name several times in my mind while looking at their face, or I make up a mnemonic device to help me remember. I also find it's easy to remember some people by their gait -- the way they walk registers in my mind as unique, and I make up a word or phrase to go with it that fits their name or their personality, and that helps me remember them the next time I see them.
Sarah
ISFP