How is it that you can just blank or forget something you use everyday like for example your locker combination?
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I usually find this happens if I’m thinking something else also numerical at the same time as the recall is required.
It’s a really bad idea to be multi-tasking/listening to a podcast etc while logging into online banking!!!
To recall it again you have to not think about it or keep trying some hours, maybe a day, then it’ll come back.
I usually find this happens if I’m thinking something else also numerical at the same time as the recall is required.
It’s a really bad idea to be multi-tasking/listening to a podcast etc while logging into online banking!!!
To recall it again you have to not think about it or keep trying some hours, maybe a day, then it’ll come back.
Your muscle memory is stored in a different part of your brain than where your other memories are stored. So if you do something every day like open a combination lock, then the memory that knows your combination will get moved into muscle memory and you generally don’t have to “think about it” even though you can do it. Then, since you don’t have to think about it most days, you just slowly forget what the actual numbers are, and you just have to get the process started before your muscle memory will kick in to put in the rest of the combination. That process will then help you trigger your memory that actually remembers what the numbers are.
Your muscle memory is stored in a different part of your brain than where your other memories are stored. So if you do something every day like open a combination lock, then the memory that knows your combination will get moved into muscle memory and you generally don’t have to “think about it” even though you can do it. Then, since you don’t have to think about it most days, you just slowly forget what the actual numbers are, and you just have to get the process started before your muscle memory will kick in to put in the rest of the combination. That process will then help you trigger your memory that actually remembers what the numbers are.
Your muscle memory is stored in a different part of your brain than where your other memories are stored. So if you do something every day like open a combination lock, then the memory that knows your combination will get moved into muscle memory and you generally don’t have to “think about it” even though you can do it. Then, since you don’t have to think about it most days, you just slowly forget what the actual numbers are, and you just have to get the process started before your muscle memory will kick in to put in the rest of the combination. That process will then help you trigger your memory that actually remembers what the numbers are.
Memory is stored with relationships. Seeing your locker lock triggers the memory location where details about the locker are and you recall the combo. Asking you the combo outside of that context can make it hard to remember because you never access the combo when not at your locker. Its like asking for directions someplace and you can’t give it, but if put into the situation of driving, you could navigate it.
When wanting to remember important things, give it many associations. While memorizing your locker combo, don’t be in front of your locker or at school. Memorize it at home while chewing on a piece of flavored gum or with some aroma around you, staring at a certain picture, some music you like and so on to associate the locker combo with more than just the locker which will occur automatically as you use the locker every day.
I know even now in my late 40s, certain smells will trigger memories from my late teens and twenties suddenly that I had no idea were still there.
Memory is stored with relationships. Seeing your locker lock triggers the memory location where details about the locker are and you recall the combo. Asking you the combo outside of that context can make it hard to remember because you never access the combo when not at your locker. Its like asking for directions someplace and you can’t give it, but if put into the situation of driving, you could navigate it.
When wanting to remember important things, give it many associations. While memorizing your locker combo, don’t be in front of your locker or at school. Memorize it at home while chewing on a piece of flavored gum or with some aroma around you, staring at a certain picture, some music you like and so on to associate the locker combo with more than just the locker which will occur automatically as you use the locker every day.
I know even now in my late 40s, certain smells will trigger memories from my late teens and twenties suddenly that I had no idea were still there.
Memory is stored with relationships. Seeing your locker lock triggers the memory location where details about the locker are and you recall the combo. Asking you the combo outside of that context can make it hard to remember because you never access the combo when not at your locker. Its like asking for directions someplace and you can’t give it, but if put into the situation of driving, you could navigate it.
When wanting to remember important things, give it many associations. While memorizing your locker combo, don’t be in front of your locker or at school. Memorize it at home while chewing on a piece of flavored gum or with some aroma around you, staring at a certain picture, some music you like and so on to associate the locker combo with more than just the locker which will occur automatically as you use the locker every day.
I know even now in my late 40s, certain smells will trigger memories from my late teens and twenties suddenly that I had no idea were still there.
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