[Cause]

I am just curious. I never really thought about it before, but last night I got curious and did some research.

In my case all my memories are in third person. A memory of me at the movies with my three friends discussing the movie, will be a picture of me standing in a circle with those friends. I remember who was there, I remember who said what and where everyone stood but its not a true memory obviously because I cant have been watching myself. All my memories are like this. Never really thought anything about it. Apparently its not uncommon but many people do have memories from the first person perspective, they remember what they saw through their eyes.

https://en.wikipedia...ry_perspectives

[Aptorian]

You might be a video game character, Cause.

[Macros]

Any memories are suspect, and if you are seeing my yourself in third person then doubly so, as unless you are on film its not a pov you can physically have experienced

[worry]

First person. I think maybe my dreams veer into third person sometimes, but not my memories.

[Illuyankas]

My memories are all first person as I am an FPS character (First Person Suffering). Press F to pay respects.

[Aptorian]

I think that the only logical conclusion is that these memories are implants. Cause is actually a Manchurian candidate sent to America by South Africa's government to assassinate Trevor Noah.

[Macros]

He's a fucking skinjob

[Mentalist]

first person. I have a hard time imagining myself in 3rd person, tbh.

[Andorion]

Almost all of my memories are in the first person
But some really old memories - most of them with my grandfather who passed away when i was 3 and a half years old are in the third person.

[Aptorian]

Could those memories not be stories people have told you about you and your grandfather, that have become a part of your memory of him, your only real memory?

[nacht]

Cause, on 05 August 2019 - 05:30 PM, said:

I am just curious. I never really thought about it before, but last night I got curious and did some research.

In my case all my memories are in third person. A memory of me at the movies with my three friends discussing the movie, will be a picture of me standing in a circle with those friends. I remember who was there, I remember who said what and where everyone stood but its not a true memory obviously because I cant have been watching myself. All my memories are like this. Never really thought anything about it. Apparently its not uncommon but many people do have memories from the first person perspective, they remember what they saw through their eyes.

https://en.wikipedia...ry_perspectives

Maybe a glitch in the Matrix :-)

[Mezla PigDog]

I don't know. I'm trying to work it out and I can't. That's weird in itself.

[Maark Abbott]

Illuyankas, on 05 August 2019 - 07:32 PM, said:

My memories are all first person as I am an FPS character (First Person Suffering). Press F to pay respects.

I removed F from my keyboard.

[Cause]

Aptorian, on 05 August 2019 - 07:37 PM, said:

I think that the only logical conclusion is that these memories are implants. Cause is actually a Manchurian candidate sent to America by South Africa's government to assassinate Trevor Noah.

Please don't put my name and Manchurian candidate in the same sentence where the NSA can see.

Now I feel like a freak, my quick google search seemed to imply 3rd person memories were not that uncommon.

[Gorefest]

Well, you cannot physically see yourself, so a 3rd person 'memory' cannot possibly be a fully accurate memory. It will have been embellished by your brain, possibly to make more sense of the full circumstances surrounding the memory. I imagine this will be more common with very early 'memories' (age 0-4), where your personal impressions have been coloured by descriptions of others and by photographs.

[Aptorian]

Don't worry, Cause. I didn't use the words assassinate and President in the same sentence so NSA wont pick up on it.

[Cause]

Gorefest, on 06 August 2019 - 08:59 AM, said:

Well, you cannot physically see yourself, so a 3rd person 'memory' cannot possibly be a fully accurate memory. It will have been embellished by your brain, possibly to make more sense of the full circumstances surrounding the memory. I imagine this will be more common with very early 'memories' (age 0-4), where your personal impressions have been coloured by descriptions of others and by photographs.

I think even first person memories are embellished or fake to some degree. Still from what I have read its more complicated than just time and embellishment, gender and culture apparently influence first or 3rd person memories. As does what you were doing at the time, the emotions etc.

[Aptorian]

Perhaps you should go visit your local Scientology office and get them to do an e-meter reading. The thetans inside you might be restless.

[Cause]

Aptorian, on 06 August 2019 - 09:32 AM, said:

Perhaps you should go visit your local Scientology office and get them to do an e-meter reading. The thetans inside you might be restless.

I would rather be a Manchurian candidate, at least I could still respect myself.

Hail Hydra

[Tsundoku]

I wish my memories of myself were in the 3rd person, because that would imply I was actually someone else.

Oh wait - in the correct tense:

Sombra wishes Sombra's memories of Sombra were in the 3rd person, because that would imply Sombra was actually someone else.

Or maybe: One wishes one's memories ...

Also, Sombra is so cool even Sombra can only refer to Sombra in the 3rd person.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 06 August 2019 - 11:31 AM