150 sats \ 4 replies \ @Taft 16 Jun \ on: Stacker Saloon
Sunday reflections:
I don't know why the events we remember from childhood are so much more exciting to us now, as memories, than they were then, when we actually experienced them as children.
Also, the older we get, the more vivid our childhood memories become. This is a paradox: things fade with age, but childhood memories become brighter and more colorful. It is said that this happens to most people.
How to explain this?
I think that everything is experienced differently when you are a child because of the sensation and feeling of novelty, this makes the brain generate a lot of dopamine and serotonin, every time you embark on something new or try something new you have a similar feeling but perhaps not as powerful as when you were a child, for what I have no explanation is for the most vivid memories as you age.
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Because adulting sucks
I feel a lot of memories from my childhood have faded.
Only the ones worth remembering are recalled.
But I have heard before that every time you recall it, you change the memory a little bit.
Change its perspective, which could change the whole narrative of that memory.
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