Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We think of our future as anticipated memories.
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2 and 15 percent of children and very rarely in adults. An eidetic image is essentially a vivid afterimage that lingers in the mind's eye for up to a few minutes before fading away.
Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.
As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like claiming to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.