I found this on wikipedia, trying to research on how my own memory condition where i can queue memories of a certain moment in time and recall them at any time (i can do it extremely well, memories through my childhood included, and i can mentally create a graphic environment of what it was like and what i was doing):
The ability to recall episodic information concerning a memory has been termed source monitoring, and is subject to distortion that may lead to source amnesia.
So anyway, source amnesia is described as below :
Source amnesia has the ability to alter one's confidence in their memory encoded in differing conditions (i.e. conscious state or in dreaming), as in memory distrust syndrome, an inclusive disorder. Source amnesia was first presented and examined in the hypnotic environment, and further understanding the human memory process is essential in unraveling this condition.
As source amnesia prohibits recollection of the context specific information surrounding facts in experienced events, there is also the inclusive case of confusion concerning the content or context of events, a highly attributable factor to confabulation in brain disease. Such confusion was termed memory distrust syndrome by Gudjonsson and MacKeith.
A condition similar to source amnesia sometimes occurs in dreams, when the dreamer has some knowledge about details of the imaginary environment but has no idea how they learned this information.
Apparently i have some mental disorder!
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
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