In a message dated 5/14/08 11:07:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Can you recreate the taste and smell in your memory? Or do you just > miss being able to taste or smell it again? > > It's similar to remembering the face of your wife or husband, sig-oth, > parent, etc. You know it when you see it, and the memory of it warms > you, but you cannot see the details very well. > It's hard for us to appreciate the differences between ourselves and those who have more -- or less -- natural gifts than we. I've mentioned what a weak visualizer I am, and how I've known authors and movie-makers who can imagine scenes with cinematic clarity. When I told one author that when I shut my eyes I see exactly what she sees with her eyes wide open in a totally dark room, she reached over and, with an expression of surprise and pity, took my hand and moaned, "No!" When I was a very young smarty-pants, I used to think the other kids who could not remember things like me, or do math in their heads, etc, were either just not paying attention or faking it. There's a big difference between recall and recognition. My visual recall is marvelously bad. To convey it, I once said to a fellow worker as we stood at the water-cooler, "I've been in that office for five months, and as I stand here I can't recall the color of the walls in there. But if you changed it even slightly, I'd realize it was changed." In sum, awful recall, but okay recognition. ************** Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001)
