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(February 14, 2011 at 8:58 am)TruthWorthy Wrote: I realise the specificity requirements of the first instance are much more narrow than the requirements of synthesising/fabricating the experience and thus being very difficult to discern which it is, the latter becomes the more likely consideration/alternative. Subjectively, I can say that there are good reasons for my believing it is/was a memory from actual events, although little way to be 100% certain since my mum forgets just about everything, my uncle, who is a priest (and the one who baptised me) is living in another country, and my dad and I aren't in touch any more. I say it was a memory because it was accompanied with great details of the accumulative: vision, auditory, sensation, etc, which I don't experience in even lucid dream states.
(February 14, 2011 at 8:04 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: Quite so, looks like your event based memory or something else masquerading as it is considerably more active. Still, the increased activity must come as a cost to something else... I take it, as an autistic person, you have difficulty in understanding social cues and behaviors?
Yeah. There are plenty of down sides to having my condition, plenty of concessions. You're right about social cues, and behaviours being difficult areas for me. This is because I have to find meaning in things and areas involving people don't always add up. A lot that is considered good/proper etc in etiquette, etc isn't logical just commonly accepted. While I have a reasonably sound long term memory - my short term/working memory is far below average, especially for certain classes of information - like names of people.
(February 14, 2011 at 8:04 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: True, becoming one with what you are examining yields great insights; my drug experiences center around there usually, so I have a minor familiarity with "thinking inside the box."
Yeah, I think there is some merit to thinking within the box. Mostly, however, I'm prone to seeing just the box and what's in it (objectively). I see most of the worlds ways like this with people. I always have. It's the same with gender roles/behaviours - they aren't biologically innate. Society calls that androgeny - I say it's common sense.
