#Memory

[nocturnowlette]

one of my favorite things to do with memory play is giving the subject's memory back.

i use a visual of fog covering the part of their memory where the trance is, and so, i like to clear it by taking a deep breath and just blowing it all away, with the subject breathing in sync with me.

suddenly, they can easily remember everything. all the triggers I implanted, all the sounds I made them make, all the barks they did for me, all the mindless little behaviors when they couldn't tell what was happening, when the trance started, how they even got here.

and then, i just point out that...

the fog is coming back down.

covering their thoughts again.

and watching them struggle to remember anything at all.

[rainbowsarah12]

WARNING: HEAVY SPOILERS FOR TOTK! ONLY READ IF YOU HAVE FINISHED THE GAME!!!! What happens when you did a million PleinAirpril studys and decide to paint some Zelda fanart because you haven´t in a while (goddamn FF7 Rebirth is still such a big distraction lol) ? -exactly this - somehow I had this thought about what would have happened if Zelda really lost her memory like Minerou warned her after Draconification (is it spelled like this in English ? ) and instead of Link Ganondorf wakes her up first? I think I will do at least one other page of this, not sure where it goes lol XD Anyhow enjoy or so...back to my landscape studies :D

Painted in photoshop.

[naeemajusthasthoughts]

Fragmentation

You want me to speak tell my story watch me bleed, though my silence tells it all You tell me you want to know me more, hiding the feelings within Your true face lost in countless memories cradled my mind in regret, but honestly if I truly spoke there would only ever be lies protecting the innocent mind. I lost myself somewhere in the essence of unused time, fought only for the crumbs of your love settled in the unknown lies. I don't think you ever wanted to know me My voice would be too damning.

[ronica-heart]

random stufffff

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

The most terrifying part of having memory issues is when you can feel something from 5 seconds ago be thrown out the window and there's an empty hole where it once was. You remember that you forgot something.

[flowerytale]

Joan Didion, from Blue Nights

[caintooth]

seeing people my age talk about how scared they are of memory loss, which they only associate with old age, is so surreal to see as a 24 year old who has actively experienced memory loss for a long time now

there are causes for memory loss besides dementia and alzheimer’s, i hope y’all know that. dissociative disorders, trauma, brain injuries, thyroid problems, even just stress and lack of sleep can fuck up your ability to store, process, and access memory. and that’s just a few of the many causes i can think of off the top of my head right now.

please stop treating disabled people like some scary “other” that you might become only in the distant, decades-away future. we are your age, too. you may become one of us sooner than you know. stop acting like memory loss marks the end of a life, when so many of us have so much living left to do!

[feral-ballad]

Linda Pastan, from Waiting for My Life: Poems; "What We Want"

[Text ID: "and in the morning / our arms ache. / We don't remember the dream, / but the dream remembers us."]

[metamorphesque]

― Joan Didion, Blue Nights

[cor-ardens-archive]

[derangedrhythms]

Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova: Reed; from ‘The Sentence’, tr. Judith Hemschemeyer

[7337hx]

[kvotheunkvothe]

now I'm curious

this isn't about where you think your continuous memories start, but rather what you think is the earliest thing you can remember (even if it's only a few seconds or a quick image)

[amourduloup]

For a moment the wonder in the girl's face was replaced by a fear — the dread of a memory.

[zegalba]

Cho Gi-Seok: Memory (2024)

[contac]