What is something you wish you could remember more clearly?
July 25, 2025
What is something you wish you could remember more clearly?
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My grandmother died when I was 2. I have no memories of her. I wish I did.
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My childhood blocked a lot out from 8 to 17
Birthing my child.
I’m Japanese-American, the daughter of immigrants to California. I wish I’d paid more attention when they tried to teach me Japanese, but when I got old enough to talk, I saw everybody around me speaking English so that’s where I decided to stay.
We did live in Brussels for a few years with my dad’s job, so we all got to learn French together (and I still use my French sometimes in my day job). But when we moved back to California it was all English again.
I need to go back and learn some legitimate Japanese as a heritage speaker.
all the books that I’ve read in all details
My husband passed in a traumatic way. It caused my brain to rewire and now all of our shared memories are blurry.
My dad’s voice.
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People’s faces. I meet someone, talk for hours, then forget what they looked like a day later.
Conversations with my dad, & the times we spent together when I was a kid. We weren’t as close as I wanted, & he was largely absent in my life. But I love him & wish I could recall our times together a bit better. He passed of lung cancer in 2015, shortly after we reconnected after almost 20 years. I have a few video recordings I took during our final visit, so at least I have his voice with me.
I can’t remember
My time in the womb
I had a seizure when my daughter was 5, and I got a fun concussion…
Ever since, I do not remember her infant and toddler hood. I’ll look at pictures and videos that I took… don’t remember them, looking at them confuses me. Fcks me right up.
Anything before the age of 10
I wish I could remember every single detail of birthing my child and the weeks following it. There’s so much adrenaline, hormones, sleep deprivation, and brain fog that I think I blocked a lot of it out for survival. I watch my birthing video and it feels like I’m watching someone else because I don’t remember it really.
My childhood. I understand my brain has blocked out the bad but my brain also has blocked out the good. There must be some happy memories too. I want those.
My mom, its hard slowly forgetting the ones you love once they have been gone for so long
I had really bad depression and anxiety from age 13, and I didn’t manage it very well. I was a gifted child and high functioning so nobody doubted anything, but it affected my memory so bad, age 13 to 17 is a blur.
Those were my precious youth years. I had wonderful friends. I went to beautiful places on family trips. I sometimes feel bitter I lost my happy memories, because I was privileged enough to have the best life. But oh well, I’ll make happier memories.
Ever since a long hospitalization of mine in 2021, my childhood seems blurry. I have spent too much time wondering if the disconnect I feel from it is part of the natural progression, as a I was 22ish and coming of age when this happened or if it’s related to damage from the illness. Either way I can’t undo it but it definitely makes me a little sad
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My childhood as well…🥺🤷🏼♀️
My mother, who died before I started the first grade.
All that math and geography I learned in school. I hate that it feels like I’ve retained almost none of that stuff.
my childhood. I wanna look back on it and reminisce but I don’t remember a lot of details.
My birth.
I’d like to remember whatever I study for the exams 🥹
The first year of my third child’s life. I can’t remember a single one-on-one moment and now I’m back at work.
Certain memories. One I was thinking about today was concerts I’ve been to, especially ones of my favorite artists. The memory is still there but hazy since it’s been so long.
My memories in general and my dreams. I wish we had a bank to store them all so I can rewatch them whenever I want.
Why I walked into the kitchen. I swear it was life-or-death 10 seconds ago.
My childhood life. I started to forget all those precious memories although I try to recall them back.
The way my childhood home smelled in the mornings, or the exact sound of a loved one’s laugh I haven’t heard in years
My earliest childhood phase, 0-5. I remember way too few things.
My childhood, specifically my mom. I had a very traumatic childhood and I lost my mom at a young age, now I can’t remember most of it. I get bits of pieces every now and again, but rarely and never the full picture.
Those will be wild 🥹:
There are some stuff id like to remember but im not so sure as it could be heavily traumatic.
Im not sure if its just because of what they say online about the subject but a UFO came to me once, like extremely close to my bedroom window, I was a teen (16).
I remember the fear, the UFO… but I am unsure if anything happened.
I find it extremely strange that this thing came TO my window WHILE I was researching UFO related stuff online lol.
It was extremely scary. After that (Im not so sure of the events) but I got sick badly, had to go multiple times to the hospital. I had extreme panic attacks.
Did something happened that “I don’t know”?
Similarly (and this goes more in the paranormal territory and speculation… and yes the last story to me is less speculative because damn, it was JUST THERE 😱🥹).
Since im very little I always have the “memory” that I come from a very strange place. I still remember a little the vibe of the place but what I dislike is that I feel crazy… sure kid’s imagination are big… but I imagined a place I couldn’t had imagined, it was like the insides of the “Ishimura” in the game Dead Space. Very dark, obsidian like interior, me or my spirit just… in the middle of that “room”.
I believe a lot into something beyond humans but we have no real proof and I wish I could KNOW genuinely what im talking about 😂
the exact moment my parents started to hate me, i wish i remember it clearly so i could reciprocate just as much
My childhood before my mom died. I was only 11 and it was ALS so a horrific disease. I have certain memories of helping her to the bathroom and even lighting her cigarettes as a child (she was in so much pain how could o judge her for that?).
My dogs. Our second dog passed away three months ago and I already forget what it’s like to hold him. I miss him so much and I get sadder knowing his memory is slowly fading.
And any death, really. I’m realizing we love to tell the same stories of people/animals we loved, but after a while, those repeated stories are all we have and it’s hard to fully remember the details of them outside of pictures you flip through occasionally.
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My grandmother died when I was 2. I have no memories of her. I wish I did.
[removed]
My childhood blocked a lot out from 8 to 17
Birthing my child.
I’m Japanese-American, the daughter of immigrants to California. I wish I’d paid more attention when they tried to teach me Japanese, but when I got old enough to talk, I saw everybody around me speaking English so that’s where I decided to stay.
We did live in Brussels for a few years with my dad’s job, so we all got to learn French together (and I still use my French sometimes in my day job). But when we moved back to California it was all English again.
I need to go back and learn some legitimate Japanese as a heritage speaker.
all the books that I’ve read in all details
My husband passed in a traumatic way. It caused my brain to rewire and now all of our shared memories are blurry.
My dad’s voice.
[removed]
People’s faces. I meet someone, talk for hours, then forget what they looked like a day later.
Conversations with my dad, & the times we spent together when I was a kid. We weren’t as close as I wanted, & he was largely absent in my life. But I love him & wish I could recall our times together a bit better. He passed of lung cancer in 2015, shortly after we reconnected after almost 20 years. I have a few video recordings I took during our final visit, so at least I have his voice with me.
I can’t remember
My time in the womb
I had a seizure when my daughter was 5, and I got a fun concussion…
Ever since, I do not remember her infant and toddler hood. I’ll look at pictures and videos that I took… don’t remember them, looking at them confuses me. Fcks me right up.
Anything before the age of 10
I wish I could remember every single detail of birthing my child and the weeks following it. There’s so much adrenaline, hormones, sleep deprivation, and brain fog that I think I blocked a lot of it out for survival. I watch my birthing video and it feels like I’m watching someone else because I don’t remember it really.
My childhood. I understand my brain has blocked out the bad but my brain also has blocked out the good. There must be some happy memories too. I want those.
My mom, its hard slowly forgetting the ones you love once they have been gone for so long
I had really bad depression and anxiety from age 13, and I didn’t manage it very well. I was a gifted child and high functioning so nobody doubted anything, but it affected my memory so bad, age 13 to 17 is a blur.
Those were my precious youth years. I had wonderful friends. I went to beautiful places on family trips. I sometimes feel bitter I lost my happy memories, because I was privileged enough to have the best life. But oh well, I’ll make happier memories.
Ever since a long hospitalization of mine in 2021, my childhood seems blurry. I have spent too much time wondering if the disconnect I feel from it is part of the natural progression, as a I was 22ish and coming of age when this happened or if it’s related to damage from the illness. Either way I can’t undo it but it definitely makes me a little sad
[removed]
My childhood as well…🥺🤷🏼♀️
My mother, who died before I started the first grade.
All that math and geography I learned in school. I hate that it feels like I’ve retained almost none of that stuff.
my childhood. I wanna look back on it and reminisce but I don’t remember a lot of details.
My birth.
I’d like to remember whatever I study for the exams 🥹
The first year of my third child’s life. I can’t remember a single one-on-one moment and now I’m back at work.
Certain memories. One I was thinking about today was concerts I’ve been to, especially ones of my favorite artists. The memory is still there but hazy since it’s been so long.
My memories in general and my dreams. I wish we had a bank to store them all so I can rewatch them whenever I want.
Why I walked into the kitchen. I swear it was life-or-death 10 seconds ago.
My childhood life. I started to forget all those precious memories although I try to recall them back.
The way my childhood home smelled in the mornings, or the exact sound of a loved one’s laugh I haven’t heard in years
My earliest childhood phase, 0-5. I remember way too few things.
My childhood, specifically my mom. I had a very traumatic childhood and I lost my mom at a young age, now I can’t remember most of it. I get bits of pieces every now and again, but rarely and never the full picture.
Those will be wild 🥹:
There are some stuff id like to remember but im not so sure as it could be heavily traumatic.
Im not sure if its just because of what they say online about the subject but a UFO came to me once, like extremely close to my bedroom window, I was a teen (16).
I remember the fear, the UFO… but I am unsure if anything happened.
I find it extremely strange that this thing came TO my window WHILE I was researching UFO related stuff online lol.
It was extremely scary. After that (Im not so sure of the events) but I got sick badly, had to go multiple times to the hospital. I had extreme panic attacks.
Did something happened that “I don’t know”?
Similarly (and this goes more in the paranormal territory and speculation… and yes the last story to me is less speculative because damn, it was JUST THERE 😱🥹).
Since im very little I always have the “memory” that I come from a very strange place. I still remember a little the vibe of the place but what I dislike is that I feel crazy… sure kid’s imagination are big… but I imagined a place I couldn’t had imagined, it was like the insides of the “Ishimura” in the game Dead Space. Very dark, obsidian like interior, me or my spirit just… in the middle of that “room”.
I believe a lot into something beyond humans but we have no real proof and I wish I could KNOW genuinely what im talking about 😂
the exact moment my parents started to hate me, i wish i remember it clearly so i could reciprocate just as much
My childhood before my mom died. I was only 11 and it was ALS so a horrific disease. I have certain memories of helping her to the bathroom and even lighting her cigarettes as a child (she was in so much pain how could o judge her for that?).
My dogs. Our second dog passed away three months ago and I already forget what it’s like to hold him. I miss him so much and I get sadder knowing his memory is slowly fading.
And any death, really. I’m realizing we love to tell the same stories of people/animals we loved, but after a while, those repeated stories are all we have and it’s hard to fully remember the details of them outside of pictures you flip through occasionally.