Memory reflection
For this reflection, imagine that you were unexpectedly struck by a falling object, which caused you to experience retrograde amnesia. As we learned, retrograde amnesia is the loss of memories which occurred before the brain injury. In this case, imagine this accident has caused you to forget all your explicit memories from childhood up until you were struck by the falling object.
Luckily, a medication has been developed to help you recover your memories, but it’s up to you to guide the recovery process.
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?
If I lost all my memories, I would feel frustrated and I would try to recover my memories. In order to recover my memories, I will take medication to calm me down and then I will call my family who knows me best. With my family, I will try to think back to my past days. If I didn’t recall my lost memory easily, I would use hypnotic therapy which enable me to approch memories exist only on my subconscious level.
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.
Loss of memories will make me frustrated and angry. Even though people around me may cheer me up and help to recover my lost memory; however, as time goes by, I may cry in despair of getting back the lost memory. Sometimes, I may have hope I can recover all my memory when I recall a few memories. I don’t know and I cannot describe the emotional journey that I have never experienced, but it is pretty obvious that giving up all memories is hard.
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.
If I were pick and choose memories I wanted to recover, I would say I will take all. Any memories, even though it is negative one, are my life and history. The positive memories that I’ve experienced will make me happy, but some negative memories make me mature a lot spiritually over my life. Therefore, I cannot give up any memories in my life.