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Re: I've heard reports from scientists who study memory that explain some
Yes Pat. Perhaps I have mentioned it before . Once I went back as far as I could when I could relate to words and what I deciphered was that I did not understand what I had heard until I was a little older. The result was painful.` 
posted by
C_C_T
on March 3, 2017 at 10:21 AM
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p.s. The difficult challenge is to always tell it exactly the same way,
I suppose, as ancient storytellers spun their tales around cooking fires.
posted by
Pat_B
on March 3, 2017 at 5:21 AM
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I've heard reports from scientists who study memory that explain some
of this tendency of ours to remember an incident one way while the other guy remembers something else. It seems each time we tell a story our brain keeps on file the latest version, but unlike peeling back the layers on an onion, the original is gone. Which is why a solid memory from childhood, if told often enough, is shaped and censored until what actually happened is anybody's guess.
posted by
Pat_B
on March 3, 2017 at 5:20 AM
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Re: FS
You know the just of it FS,
posted by
C_C_T
on March 3, 2017 at 3:07 AM
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Re:Bill
Just nearly all stark original Bill . No education much, but my mother always loved poetry. The only poetry I have read is Dylan Thomas. Previously I thought all poetry had to rhyme. OK>
posted by
C_C_T
on March 3, 2017 at 3:05 AM
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C.C.T.
Old British mood. Sometime, you must tell us how your style of writing poems originated, and the type's history. Excellent. I'm a student of literature as well as of the media sir.
posted by
BC-A
on March 2, 2017 at 9:52 AM
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Re: C_C_T
Thank you RP I don't know if I dare post my first experience and I was such a smug looking baby. Perhaps we could see others first, that would be fun. 
posted by
C_C_T
on March 2, 2017 at 9:17 AM
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I remember learning in school just how much a memory can be inaccurate for eyewitness testimony. The game of Telephone is another good illustration of that...Love, and really life, in general, can be so wonderful and yet so painful.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on March 2, 2017 at 9:15 AM
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ReKabu:
Yes it is very annoying when one knows one is right.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 2, 2017 at 9:11 AM
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Re:Annicita
The truth usually belongs to the narrator A..
posted by
C_C_T
on March 2, 2017 at 9:10 AM
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Re: Wiley
Keep up the good work Bro.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 2, 2017 at 9:07 AM
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I think it is a case of pleasing oneself Sam.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 2, 2017 at 9:06 AM
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Re:anibanerjee
Thank you Sir. We are but the humble poets of little renown.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 2, 2017 at 9:05 AM
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Re: Lanetay
Good thinking LT
posted by
C_C_T
on March 2, 2017 at 9:03 AM
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thats why insurance adjusters tell you to note down the facts right away before you forget them
posted by
Lanetay
on March 2, 2017 at 8:39 AM
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Poetries that ebb and flow are always so dear to me, sir C C T.
posted by
anib
on March 1, 2017 at 8:46 PM
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It reminded me of how one can start a tale and by the time it makes the rounds it's not close to the original! sam
posted by
sam444
on March 1, 2017 at 8:35 PM
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ChiffChaff
Wileywas here Bro...
posted by
WileyJohn
on March 1, 2017 at 5:15 PM
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People have different experiences that effect how they remember or what they remember....what matters to one may not matter to another
posted by
Annicita
on March 1, 2017 at 2:52 PM
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Interesting thought here CCT. Talking things over with older big Sis and older cousins they remember somethings different to me.
posted by
Kabu
on March 1, 2017 at 1:43 PM
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C_C_T
I don't know why people recall or restate events differently. So do, most do. I liked the sweetness of your poem, flowing onward where it needed to go, like puffs of goodness. 
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on March 1, 2017 at 12:58 PM
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