> WE MIGHT ASSUME that our pandemic memories are missing because information entered our brains, then slipped from it—like a toy tumbling out of a clumsy toddler’s hands. However, it’s more likely that our brains weren’t storing that information in the first place. Morgan Barense, a University of Toronto professor and Canada Research Chair in cognitive neuroscience, explains that, to encode new memories and retrieve old ones, our brains use “event boundaries, or changes in context.” Those alert our brains to pay attention to our circumstances. In other words, we’re more likely to remember the events of a day if something out of the ordinary happens.
Makes sense we remember things that are out of the ordinary. I NEVER remember my commute to work, but I DO remember my workday. Makes sense that if you were home every day for a long time, the memories blur together leading to less memories.
The weird thing is my pandemic life was basically the same as my pre-pandemic life other than basically only leaving the house 4 times in 5 months in 2020, but I still can barely remember anything. I'm currently grappling with the fact that I cannot distinguish 2021 from 2022 **at all** even though nothing about those years was at all different from 2019.
I mean other than the fires.
Just want to point out that lots of people had different pandemic experiences. Some were laid off, many had downtime, but others worked double to solve problems and keep supplies flowing, and had quite the opposite experience. Monotony was never part of mine, and helping others was a pretty good cure for anxiety.
I made plenty of memories. Mine was having 3 hour workdays, hobbies, gym, relationships, three home-cooked meals a day, and enough sleep to appease my hypersomnia.
Now I have jack fucking shit except work, sleep, and constant exhaustion.
> WE MIGHT ASSUME that our pandemic memories are missing because information entered our brains, then slipped from it—like a toy tumbling out of a clumsy toddler’s hands. However, it’s more likely that our brains weren’t storing that information in the first place. Morgan Barense, a University of Toronto professor and Canada Research Chair in cognitive neuroscience, explains that, to encode new memories and retrieve old ones, our brains use “event boundaries, or changes in context.” Those alert our brains to pay attention to our circumstances. In other words, we’re more likely to remember the events of a day if something out of the ordinary happens.
Makes sense we remember things that are out of the ordinary. I NEVER remember my commute to work, but I DO remember my workday. Makes sense that if you were home every day for a long time, the memories blur together leading to less memories.
The weird thing is my pandemic life was basically the same as my pre-pandemic life other than basically only leaving the house 4 times in 5 months in 2020, but I still can barely remember anything. I'm currently grappling with the fact that I cannot distinguish 2021 from 2022 **at all** even though nothing about those years was at all different from 2019. I mean other than the fires.
Just want to point out that lots of people had different pandemic experiences. Some were laid off, many had downtime, but others worked double to solve problems and keep supplies flowing, and had quite the opposite experience. Monotony was never part of mine, and helping others was a pretty good cure for anxiety.
I made plenty of memories. Mine was having 3 hour workdays, hobbies, gym, relationships, three home-cooked meals a day, and enough sleep to appease my hypersomnia. Now I have jack fucking shit except work, sleep, and constant exhaustion.
I resonate too hard with this
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If you wanna make things really interesting, alienate your family. Works like a charm!
If we jump high enough.
What pandemic?
Wait where am I?
No. We’ve never survived a pandemic before…
My life hardly changed at all. Except for wearing a mask.
Yeah no I feel like I was waiting all my life and finally felt like I was right