Do people tell you you have a good memory?

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People tell me I do but I don't think I do or I'd remember everything I have read or remember every single buddy I talk to and remember where they are from, how old they are, etc. Does anyone have that problem too?

I don't see the point in remembering someone I will only talk to a few times and then never again. I remember my good buddies only, the ones I talk to a lot.


I hardly remember my dreams. When I wake up, they are foggy and I can't tell it like how it happened because it's all incoherent if I tell about it. I rarely remember mine well. If it's tragic enough, I will.


I also keep forgetting what people tell me. Someone can tell me something over and over and I won't remember it. It feels like my mind has been fried or something like I have done drugs.
That was the problem in my last relationship. Now it seems like that problem is gone in my new one. Could it have been the depression that caused it.

And people still tell me I have a good memory.

my memory is quite crappy TBH

I've had a lot of ppl actually tell me i had a great memory, its weird, i can remember what i was wearing, where i was sitting, what i was doing in a restaraunt i was at over 10 years ago, and only there once...weird, yes haha.

My memory is very bad. I cant remember peoples names, even when I know them it take some thinking to remember. Remembering visual thing like road routes, I remember better.

I remember what I wore to Spokane on December 2nd when I saw Disney on Ice there and when I ate at Ferguson's where Benny & Joon was filmed. My boyfriend was impressed by it. I also remember what other outfits I wore there when I first went there in September 2006. Well maybe only two outfits because I don't know what I wore on the third day there. I'd have to think hard and maybe the memory will come back and maybe it won't.


Funny thing I can remember some days of what outfit I wore when I went to see a certain movie and I tend to remember what theater I saw a movie at. But I don't remember every single theater I saw a movie in. If I went back to Wisconsin I would not be able to know which theater I saw The secret garden at and where I saw Beethoven.

sometimes I don't know wat was real and what was dream from my past

so many memories I have I am not even sure happened

Most peopel say mine is bad cuz they always remember everything differently.

My long term memory is quite good, I always surprise people I know (usually a close relative) by remembering some incident or detail most people seemed to have forgot.

Yes, I only remember the bad/ stressful ones usually. But until I'm fully awake, they're all very clear.

Whoa. I thought that was just me.

This one too, they call me when they need to know something, I will remember.

My memory about certain things (my interests and useless trivia) is incredibly good. This leads people to believe that I have a photographic memory, though I always deny it when they ask (because I don't). But my working memory is terrible. That is to say I can't remember something fairly recent for very long at all if it's not interesting or really hard to forget. Then people like my mom don't believe me when I say I forgot something, and I get called lazy all the time.

Being perfect isn't easy.

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I usually didn't remember my dreams at all, or if I did they were just a haze and a certain odd feeling that I could never describe, and maybe a few images at most. But then I decided to start a dream journal. I thought it would be hard, not remembering anything, but as soon as I did I started to remember them. It was weird.
Then I got distracted and stopped the journal, and my dreams got hazy again. I'm not always sure I want to remember them anyway. But sometimes they're still clear, more often than they were before.

U sound just like me im not very good wid names but have a good memory 4 road routes.

Am have a extremely good long term memory and can remember the littlest things from years ago.
Am have a good audio/sound memory-can instantly recognise music[known to am] from the first few sounds to DJs doing voice overs for programmes.
Am also have a good memory for visual things and can recognise things after seeing them years later.
Unfortunately because of this,people [especially mum] seem to take this as meaning am have no problem with memory at all and am called a liar-am have a very bad short term/working memory,eg,am can walk in through the door way and in that time forget am had come through a door and leave it wide open.

My memory can be astoundingly good or terrible depending on the circumstance. I might remember nearly word-for-word a relatively meaningless conversation from years ago, but then I used to read all of these fantasy books, and I would forget every character's name and all but the most significant of plot points within a few months of reading them because honestly, I didn't care that much about the story, it was just a way to kill time. Then there are other books I can practically read to you from inside my own head. Go figure.

I guess I am like most of you in this regard. Some HAVE said I have a great memory, etc... The fact is that it is SELECTIVE. Sometimes I can see a FLASH of something, and remember it for LITERALLY DECADES! Other times, I may struggle on something else.

I've heard that I have a good memory, but I don't remember everything. Or, there are things I remember, but I can't remember when. So I don't usually know if this or that happened when I was eleven or fourteen, or maybe later (I moved at the age eleven, so it's easier to know if it happened before or after I was that age).

But when I remember people I haven't met in a long time or something, it might feel strange, like they were from another life instead.

I remember some of my dreams, but a lot of it is hazy. I really should get around to getting a dream journal, 'cause I think they are neat to remember.

Reasonable. It's not what it used to be, and more selective. I'm good at remembering unimportant things but sometimes can't hold on to what I've memorised and/or rehearsed.