• Glasgow@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Finally aphantasia and SDAM pay off.

    Can’t implant false memories if I don’t have episodic memories

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        20 hours ago

        I guess kinda in the sense that I am time-blind. I have no internal sense of the future so can’t plan for it (ADHD). Past just feels like a distant movie I’ve watched and can remember key or spatial details (my semantic memory trying to makeshift an episodic memory I think). Always living in the now.

        My wife says her memories is largely emotions based which is alien to me. Mine is just a list of facts that come to me like

        • I was on the couch in the far side of the room
        • you walked in from the kitchen door and said x

        Have no concept of the feels in the moment unless it’s evident from the facts