Hacker News Reader

Ah I wonder, are these recent memories worthy to you ? A colleague told me my memory was impressive yet we both struggled to remember what we worked on a month ago. As soon as a release was done, our brain wiped mostly everything to start on new work. I was personally shocked and I assume it's because it's of no interest to my brain.

Some stuff gets a lifelong spot in your brain, some are week long refugees.

View on HN

My mother had memory problems in the last years of her life. My sister would take her to a coffee shop, where she would order a latte or some such. To my mother, it was new and delightful every time--and she would exclaim over how she'd never had anything like that before, although in fact she'd had it just the week before.

When I get old(er), that's how I hope I'll be: delighting in new experiences, even when they're old.

I discovered some weird thing: our brain seems to have "taste memory", separate from "regular" memory. If you have the same dinner several times in a row, for example, you become averse to it. You then have to stop having it for awhile so that the brain "forgets" what it tastes like.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com