Do I have poor memory? Does anyone relate? How do you remember things?

[Secret Chief]

If my memory is on the way out i would like advice on if i can slow it.

"Good memory and good health are closely related, as one friend reminded me. She advised that we stimulate our brains and bodies by regularly doing word and number puzzles, reading, keeping up with technology, socializing, eating healthy food, exercising, and sleeping 7-8 hours per night."

- 7 Memory Strategies That Work at Any Age

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- Playing a musical instrument good for brain health in later life - study

 

[JustGeorge]

You need a smart phone. Or a notepad for your pocket

I need pockets, but some are in the mail.

 

[ChristineM]

"Good memory and good health are closely related, as one friend reminded me. She advised that we stimulate our brains and bodies by regularly doing word and number puzzles, reading, keeping up with technology, socializing, eating healthy food, exercising, and sleeping 7-8 hours per night."

- 7 Memory Strategies That Work at Any Age

The sleeping 7+ hours a night is a problem, five and a half is typical. More than that, the cats complain

And at the moment, health-wise im a wreck, i think this has something to do with it.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Most humans have unrealistic expectations about memory in part because they are not taught about how it works. All memory is reconstructive, it's not like a book where information is fossilized onto a page. Yet many think it is supposed to work that way (it isn't and doesn't) then conclude their memories are bad (they aren't). Oh well.

How Memory Works

Memory is a continually unfolding process. Initial details of an experience take shape in memory; the brain’s representation of that information then changes over time. With subsequent reactivations, the memory grows stronger or fainter and takes on different characteristics. Memories reflect...

www.psychologytoday.com

Interesting. I suppose it’s one of those things that if you don’t use it you lose it?