Reflection2 – Memory

1. How would you begin the process of recovering your memory? Who would you turn to, where would you search, and how would you proceed?

-I would begin the process of recovering my memory from my closest friends. Both they and I probabaly have some shared experiences such as trips, restaurants, playing games, or even fighting. It would be hard to recover all the memories alone, but if my friends and I go to some places that we have visited before the accident, my unconsciousness would know some part of the shared experiences. They would be very helpful to recover my memory. Also I would ask for help from my family. My family are the ones who know me well and shared experiences when I was a child. The palces I grew up and played would be the key to recover my memories. I think it would be better to go somewhere I have been before than listening to recover hte memories because the visual memories last longer than the verbal memories.

2. Please describe the emotional journey you imagine you would be going through as you attempt to reconstruct your life. Imagine the feelings you would have.

-It would be aweful. I would wonder myself who I am, where I belong to, and where to begin recovering my memories. I would have to learn everything I knew. My relationship with other people would get narrower than before. These facts would make me suffered from depreesion and give up recorvering the memories.

3. Suppose you were able to pick and choose the memories you wanted to recover from your life. What types of memories would you choose to retain and what types of memories might you decide to edit out of your remembered experience? Positive, negative, painful, happy, angry, frightened, etc. Please elaborate and explain some your decision making process.

-I would choose the happy and positive memories I had first. They would encorage me to recover further potential memories. Once I recovered my positive memories, I might stop to recover the memories because happy thoughts make happy mind. Even it would be aweful memories, I might change it to be the positive way unconsciously. I think I don’t need to try to think of angry or negative memories. However, sometimes, the negative memories would come up in my mind persistantly. If it would happen, I would let it go and admit