Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.
I have a very, very good memory, and I always remember the people who have done right by me and the people who have done wrong by me.
Memory narrativises itself.
I've actually got quite a good memory. I've good recall. It's often things which other people might not notice.
I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past situation to myself and be unable to remember my inner behavior in this situation. As I transfer myself back into this situation, a surrogate for the missing memory comes into focus.
Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.
It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.
Memory is the thing you forget with.