Vivid Memories

DimHalo · 09-17-2005, 01:39 AM

I was just watching a show where they are showing highlights of San Francisco. There are lots of live video shots of the city. I lived there when I was 4-7 (around that time). I have moved around A LOT so many of the places i've been tend to blur together. Especially from that young of an age.

But while I was watching this they showed so many things that I can vividly remember. I could even see some things that I think have changed since I was last there. It was amazing. They showed the beach next to the bridge and I could remember exactly what it was like to actually be there.

Anyway, do any of you ever have experiences like that? Or, what is it like to be in the same place all your life?

Typhoid · 09-17-2005, 01:42 AM

I really have nothing like that, because I've lived in the same house since I was 5.

The only thing remotely close, in a sense, that I can think of, is that how the area around my house has changed so much in the years I've been here.

Forests have been clearcut to make townhouses, shrubs and pricklebushes have overthrown areas where kids used to take their minibikes to ride, houses have been knocked down to make more roads.

Its really wierd.

I dont really remember the houses I lived in before this one, I remember the one before it sort of, but just how it looked on the inside, and half of the backyard.

Damn you memory.

Teuthida · 09-17-2005, 02:33 AM

I'm able to relive experiences from as far back as two. I just don't seem to forget anything. I've lived in the same house all my life(except for the time I was away at college) but my neighborhood has changed so drastically. No one lives near me who was living here a mere five years ago. So I remember how things were at different ages. Kinda sucks...everything in the past seems better than how things are now though my self then wouldn't think he was having that great of a time to remember it 15 years hence. I am the anti-buddhist...living in the past and in the future, never the present. So, um yeah...SF...nice city...that Bob Saget cracks me up.

Dyne · 09-17-2005, 07:14 PM

I remember a lot of things about my old townhouse in Oakville, Ontario. I moved to BC when I was 4. Some day I'd like to go back and verify all these things floating around in my memory.