[email protected] wrote: > For example, my earliest memories are from when I was three or four. When I > try to recall them now, I have no conviction I'm remembering the original > experience much at all.
Can you remember your wife's face or voice with detail and clarity if she is not in your presence? When I was married, I could not. I had a very good idea of certain generalities of her face, but actually more about her in motion, the cadence of her voice, stuff like that. Of course, the instant she walked into the room or I heard her voice on the phone, I immediately knew what I was seeing or hearing. Each memory was more filled with emotional resonances than with clear and crisp "images" (or their sonic counterparts). Tying this into your original query, when I summon up memories, they are filled more with the feelings and emotions of the event that with any cinematic-type image details. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady
