AloneSoul
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posted on 21/4/2003 at 08:27 AM |
How well do you remember events in the past? How well is your memory in
general? (Ack, that sounds like the opening to a tv commercial.) I’ve
talked about how my memory is spotty at best before...and now this problem
is become very annoying to me.
1. I try to remember things but they simply refuse to resurface. - Both my
long and short term memory are effected by this.- I sometimes forget things
I learned only from a year ago. My short term memory doesn’t go blank at
all but for some reason I lose certain things too fast (in my short term
memory) while others stay firmly put.
2. There’s something else too which I find a bit peculiar. My “dreams” /
“nightmares” have become more vivid and are a reoccurring at a greater rate
than before. My sleep has been effected by this, I sometimes wake up
constantly in cold sweats and every time I wake up with a far greater
fatigue than I do when I first fall asleep. Sometimes I feel as though I
have trouble while breathing, like the blanket or sheet has exhorted a
amazing for upon my chest. I sometimes dream of some sort of beast or
shadowy figure resting on my chest. (Someone told me that I may have a mild
case of sleep apnea or something to that nature, I don’t know. I wonder my
sleeping problem have anything to do with my memory problem.)
I have been diagnosed with dyslexia when I was younger, - I wonder if now I
have some sort of long term memory or neurological problem. I doubt it
would be a chemical imbalance for I have had many blood tests performed
around a year ago and the docs would have seen that. - This isn’t a
bitch’in session to me or a cry for help, I’m just curious to see if anyone
else here has these sorts of problems and or if anyone can make sense of
this. ____________________
 but at least you know, just how much pain there is in living
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Monolycus
Fanatic  Posts: 580 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 21/4/2003 at 09:36 AM |
The pressure on your chest/feelings of suffocation are a very
well-described phenomenon. The Anglo-Saxons called it a Mara (it's where
we get the word "nightmare" today). Nobody is entirely sure what causes
it, but I have read some interesting speculations.
Memory can be affected by anything from fatigue, stress, diet, changes in
biochemistry or congenital disease. If it is getting to be a real problem
or has persisted for any length of time, it is very advisable for you to
see a physician.
~M.
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Xaoswolf
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posted on 21/4/2003 at 01:07 PM |
I always have nightmares, sometimes they are reoccoring. Other times I
just have reoccorring dream that aren't nightmares. I've never had the
pressure on the chest though. Cold sweats on occasion though.
Depending on what you dream about it is entirely possible to be more
fatigued that before you slept. THink about it, if you spend several hours
at night, running from zombies or something, you are going to be tired. ____________________
Sometimes I dream about dinosaurs shopping for cargo shorts at the Gap.
Does that make me a bad person?
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gothicmorman
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posted on 21/4/2003 at 02:48 PM |
well i never really dream about anything i dont get enough sleep to be
shallow enough in to dream but memory the memory part hella yes, i
sometimes go between forgetting and remembering things 6 times in a minute
then long term i remember half of things like who to tell them to and how
important it was but not what the actuall message was, is there such thing
as early alzheimers??...
the ruthless
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Monolycus
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posted on 21/4/2003 at 03:01 PM |
Good Gods... was that one sentence?? Get some sleep, man!
~M.
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Abbadon
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posted on 21/4/2003 at 03:27 PM |
| I remember when... wait... what was I saying...? ____________________
Light is changing to shadow, and casting a shroud over all we have known.
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic   Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 21/4/2003 at 07:11 PM |
woo hoo you're part of the "can't sleep and when you do it fucks you up"
club TOO?!
I think dyslexia has something to do with your memory problem as well
(hence why when dyslexic children are taught as non dyslexic children they
suffer in school, and the rest of life is like that too). I've got some
wack ass sort of dyslexia that my mom wouldn't have checked out (I mean
NOTHING is wrong with HER children, we just won't pay ATTENTION) and my
memory is wack. I remember SOME things for the rest of my life, while
other things go in one ear right out the other no matter how hard I try
(which is why I often have to watch movies or read books twice to get the
full scope). I've had to sort of work out my own system of learning things
as I go along, which is usually DOING things AS I learn them so that it
sticks in my head better. I tried glue, and that was messy and landed me
in the ER so don't try it.
As for the sleeping problem, it could be anything from what you eat to when
you eat, it could be sleep apnea as mono said, it could be that you are
having panic attacks and misinterpreting them as waking dreams, or it could
be a demon out to get your soul or your breath or your nookie. Have fun
finding out! ____________________
Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.
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Dolorosa
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 856 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 21/4/2003 at 09:17 PM |
Nightmares...ergh...consistant, involved and terrifying.
I've had 'em since I was a kid, and despite that, never got used to the
really BAD ones...a couple of times I've been woken up by friends or family
in the midst of a particularly nasty one and reacted poorly.
can remember 'em pretty damn well too...
I hate sleeping sometimes...at least at night I guess.
Funny thing is, I can remember my nightmares, but fuck if I can remember
anything else...including my damn phone number. ____________________
In the valley of the Goats, the Goat Fucker is King
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MorteAscendo
Member   Posts: 190 Registered: 6/5/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 21/4/2003 at 10:49 PM |
| Unfortunatly i am one of those delightfull people who remember
everything!!! I can remember everything that has happened to me since i
was 2. But it comes in handy when you really wanna fuck with people. ____________________
"Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. I'm a schizophrenic, and so am I".
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Anya
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 656 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 23/4/2003 at 05:40 AM |
I would like to say I sleep okay, but half of the time I wake up a lot in
the middle of the night or plain out suffer insomnia. A lot of times
though, my dreams usually occur somehow (don't know why). Not -exactly-
like the dream, but something similar happens.
For instant, I had a dream that my current guy and I were just chilling a
couple monthes ago and his girlfriend at the time came in, got pissed off,
and left. Well, it turned out that she dumped him on his b-day (which was
only a week or so after my dream).
I don't remember much on my past except me as being a little girl. Five
years ago, however, I cannot say I am who I was five years ago. Things
change as the present strolls in. Heh.
*stops rambling before she starts uttering gibberish*
Oh yeah. Another odd-out dream was me being in the Shadowlands (land of
the dead plane thing) in Iraq and there were a lot of dead souls around.
They were tormented, being corrupted, etc. Then all of a sudden, it seemed
as if a demonic spirit was trying to daemonically possess me, rendering me
immobilized and zooming out of the dream. That day, the superintendent of
my school died and it seemed a journalist got killed in Iraq. Most of the
time, I do end up waking after my dreams.
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AloneSoul
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posted on 25/4/2003 at 06:29 PM |
Thanks everyone.
I eat good and I’m in good condition. Haven’t really had any bad head
trauma lately... I don’t forget regular things, my name, ss, how to do
certain things or facts but memories are short and few; the ailments are
the same. The more I try to remember, the worse it gets. Maybe I’ll see a
doc, find out what’s going on.
Heh, now I’m in my four to three hours of sleep per night more. Soon I’ll
switch back to my eight (that’s when i can sleep all day and be dead tired
the next). I haven’t been having many dreams lately...which is kinda good.
- I am trying to become less of a cranky bastard and more open minded, even
as these changes continue to flip-flop. Heh, I hope it’s working. ____________________
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Anya
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 656 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 25/4/2003 at 08:29 PM |
My mom has a mental thing where all REALLY horrid things that happened to
her are blocked. She only remembers what happened, but not exact details
sort of thing...that stuff. Her memory nowdays isn't as great as it use to
be for the fact she suffers a lot of abnormal symptoms, one of them being
diabetes. Not sure how her 'memory block' came about, though...will have
to ask her sometime. If you want, I can do that.
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