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Foggy · 01-15-2008, 08:50 PM

My working memory is fine I think; a little poor maybe, but I don't have a lot of issues with it. My problem is that I forget information literally within weeks of learning it. Most of my memory is rather blurry. I can learn information for a test, but I won't remember anything from the class afterwards. I have very few vivid memories from my childhood and I'm only 18. I struggle remembering vocabulary that I'm not constantly using. It feels like anything above and beyond what I need at a given point in time is fairly quick to erase itself from my memory banks. This is in general very frustrating for me because it's very discouraging learning something new, knowing that within a month I'll remember only the vaguest details of it. Does anyone here have any advice for improving this?

01-15-2008, 08:50 PM	#1 (permalink)
Foggy Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 104	Improving Retention of Long Term Memory My working memory is fine I think; a little poor maybe, but I don't have a lot of issues with it. My problem is that I forget information literally within weeks of learning it. Most of my memory is rather blurry. I can learn information for a test, but I won't remember anything from the class afterwards. I have very few vivid memories from my childhood and I'm only 18. I struggle remembering vocabulary that I'm not constantly using. It feels like anything above and beyond what I need at a given point in time is fairly quick to erase itself from my memory banks. This is in general very frustrating for me because it's very discouraging learning something new, knowing that within a month I'll remember only the vaguest details of it. Does anyone here have any advice for improving this?