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- ReyBrujo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Seeing the amount of repeated stories posted in Digg.com, I would believe he is not the only one.
- Smooph, on 10/12/2007, -14/+26This reminds me of a movie...I think it was called Memento where this guy had to tattoo notes on his body about his wife's murder because he couldn't remember anything for more than....anyway....This reminds me of a movie...I think it was called Memento where this guy had to tattoo notes on his body about his wife's murder because he couldn't remember anything for more than....anyway....This reminds me of a movie...I think it was called Memento where this guy had to tattoo notes on his body about his wife's murder because he couldn't remember anything for more than....anyway....This reminds me of a movie...I think it was called Memento where this guy had to tattoo notes on his body about his wife's murder because he couldn't remember anything for more than....anyway....This reminds me of a movie...I think it was called Memento where this guy had to tattoo notes on his body about his wife's murder because he couldn't remember anything for more than....anyway....This reminds me of a movie...I think it was called Memento where this guy had to tattoo notes on his body about his wife's murder because he couldn't remember anything for more than....anyway....This reminds me of a movie...I think it was called Memento where this guy had to tattoo notes on his body about his wife's murder because he couldn't remember anything for more than....anyway....
- maxlew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"It's like being dead . . . one long night with no thoughts, no dreams. There’s no difference between day and night, I haven’t been conscious in 20 years."
if you have a 7 second memory then there is no way he can say that, because he wouldn't know that he has a problem and if someone told him he would forget it - Sabotage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Watch it now on TLC
http://tlc.discovery.com/tvlistings/series.jsp?series=55264&gid=0&channel=TLC - 0001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Article is pretty short and the pdf fact sheet isn't really interesting.
- lostngone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It would really suck if he was watching an hour long infomercial and really wanted the item. Six weeks later he ends up with 600 cans of GLH.
- motorbikematt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The Soundtrack for Memento is awesome too, not to mention Carrie-Anne Moss.
Gee, 7 Second memory, no wonder his marriage has lasted! - jwest84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2does "50 First Dates" ring a bell to anyone else?
- PacoDG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Memento
Das *****. Go put in your Netflix que right now (or search your favorite bit torrent site, whatever). From IMDB:
Leonard (Guy Pearce) is an insurance investigator whose memory has been damaged following a head injury he sustained after intervening on his wife's murder. His quality of life has been severely hampered after this event, and he can now only live a comprehendable life by tattooing notes on himself and taking pictures of things with a Polaroid camera. The movie is told in forward flashes of events that are to come that compensate for his unreliable memory, during which he has liaisons with various complex characters. Leonard badly wants revenge for his wife's murder, but, as numerous characters explain, there may be little point if he won't remember it in order to provide closure for him. The movie veers between these future occurrences and a telephone conversation Leonard is having in his motel room in which he compares his current state to that of a client whose claim he once dealt with. - dbrodbeck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1OH sorry that was for linuxette and rebz.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1how the hell does he know what having a seven second memory is like when he has a seven second memory????
- Mike.ohara, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I Saw this documentary on Canada's Discovery channel, last night (12/04/05) and it was very sad....
Imagine your family spouse, or your children coming over to see you, them talking to you. you not remembering anything about them but knowing that they are some how close to you. when they leave, never knowing they've come.
every few seconds coming to a realization that he is awake.. not realizing that he just had this awareness... as far as he is concerned its the first awakening since his "illness" people who visit him and stay over a period of time become the first people he's seen since his "illness" because he doesn't remember them arriving or anything about them or even where he is or the date... truly a scary way to have to live..
and the fact that people make fun of it is disturbing.. if you had someone close to you or even yourself.. it would not be quite so funny. - dbrodbeck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1To be more precise, you are speaking of inter stimulus interval. That would be the same with a person (that you did not describe the incorrect action to). The only time the ISI can get long (and in this case I mean orders of magnitude longer) would be with sickness. If an animal ingests food and gets sick maybe 24 hr later it will associate the flavour with the sickness and not eat the food again (assuming it is a novel flavour). This is true with most mammals, interstingly, with birds it tends to eb the colour they associate with gastro-intestinal concequences (Garcia and Koellig, 1966; Rozin and Kalat, 1971).
Memory in animals is a fascinting topic studied by cool people the world over... - PacoDG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Doh!
Well everyone else, get Memento, its a great flick! - yensed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I too cant figure out how they got that quote...
- chrish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Maybe he remembers stuff from before the illness - like Drew Barrymore in '50 First Dates" could remember everything from before the accident.
So like it may only have affected his short term memory (which would explain why he thinks he's seen no one in 20 years) - JimMarchwBBV, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The same thing happened to my kid brother at around age 14 or so...temporary brain damage from an illness. Long story as to what did it, the point is what was going on was, he wasn't transferring *anything* from short-term memory to long-term. In normal people your short-term memory is about 10 minutes long give or take a bit so instead of seven seconds, my brother was doing the same thing on about a 10-minute cycle.
All his existing long-term memories were intact. He just couldn't put anything new into them!
He almost ODed on plain ol' asprin at one point...had a headache, didn't remember he'd already dropped some. Oops. Good news is, when the physical pressure on his brain was finally brought under control (google "hydrocephalus") he made a 100% recovery, including getting memory functions back.
The guy in this documentary sounds similar except more damaged - some long-term memory is shot and his short-term memory is barely there at all.
Anyways. Short-term versus long-term memory is a weird thing.
In a really extreme life-or-death emergency, as part of your brain's ability to radically speed up you'll actually chop off most of your short-term memory. That's why memories of really intense stuff are often "choppy". There have been cops almost convicted of crimes because their memory of a shootout was way off, both in terms of time/duration and things like number of shots fired. In reality there was nothing wrong with their judgement or morals and they weren't lying after the fact, they simply had problems remembering because that extra "processing power" for memory wasn't critical to survival right then so their brains shut it down to gain speed. I've been in states like that about...lesse, 8 or 9 times now, mostly near (or actual) motorcycle wrecks :). Only one was anything like a "fight" and my morals/judgement didn't go south...emotions went flat, hearing faded (yet more "extra stuff shut down for more CPU cycles"!) and the aforementioned memory issues...memory is still there, but "choppy" like a series of still images. Enough to more or less piece it together...fine by me.
Jim - manfesto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Before looking into the comments, I was completely expecting "Memento" to be in the very first comment - and yet it was beaten to the punch by "50 first dates."
- dbrodbeck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Many people with amnesia report knowledge of their condition. Such metacognition is an interesting phenomenon, and is no way indicative of someone not having amnesia
- rebz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is a very old story, but its an extremely good one to read into if you are interested in Psych. I took a class in high school and again in my first semester of college and some of that stuff (you would read/learn more about this with studies of the brain) is extremely interesting.
@linuxette: It's not more of "memory" as it is a learning ability. The cat wont be able to associate the punishment with the deed. - heavyness, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Tom Hanks as "Mr. Short Term Memory" on SNL.... classic
- dbrodbeck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Short term memory in humans lasts only seconds, unless the data are acted on, processed in some way.
- ptknight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, Memento is a great movie. Check it out http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/
- voyetra8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Remember Sammy Jankus...
- chris86wm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0could someone post another torrent on piratebay or something because that other site wont allow anymore registers
- bedouin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Anyone have a torrent for this? I only have economy cable (no TLC).
- capajc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Can't remember anything, but he remembers the passage of 20 years worth of time? Hmm.
And Memento played in real order just isn't that good of a film, I don't think. 50% of its charm was in the telling...like that episode of Seinfeld where they went to India. - simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0People asking questions like this....
"How does he known whats happen to him if can only remeber what happen in the last 7 seconds. Should that mean every 7 seconds he thinks its 1982 again and wonders where he is?"
... remember that everything is relative, he comprehends that today is x, x, 2005 yet his last memory was x, x, 1980 or something, hence he can know that for the past 20 years he's known nothing.
obviously. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A Man With Only a 7 Second Memory = Bill Clinton
- Xekonaphim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0do any of you actually read through the comments before posting a new one? about half of you have made the same "if he has 7 second memory how would he know what it was like blah blah" remark
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Lenny!!
- Marfanity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Holy *****. 7 Seconds? I thought I was burnt.
- comrademikhail, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"The movie called "the 51st date", at least the characted in the movie has 24 hours of memory."
No, it's "50 First Dates" and there is a character in the movie named "Ten Second Tom" who only haev a memory of 10 seconds..
That's really sad that something like that actually happens to people though. - sfacets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So this is a movie?
How can the guy say "It's like being dead . . . one long night with no thoughts, no dreams. There’s no difference between day and night, I haven’t been conscious in 20 years." if he has a memory span of 7 seconds? It just doesn't make sense. - hendoz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Memento is awesome. The easter egg that plays the movie in true order makes it worth buying the criterion Edition.
- Mike.ohara, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0he knows about the illness he hasnt lost all memory of everyhing he knows that there has been a time when he was sick.. when they ask him they ask him when he was sick he looks at a clock or someone tells him. he then quotes back. most of the time he doesnt quote a year. the CBC note is a missquote. he usually says "since ive been sick" or since "The illness"
- antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wait... what was the story about?
- elitexero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If he has a 7 second memory, how could he say that he's been like that for 20 years? How would he know?
- alexanderhazard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ten second Tom?
- c0dek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Article is pretty short"
They wanted to make sure the guy could read the whole thing before he forgot how it began - AveryDeDog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have the same thing! Only with sex.
- flipper5311, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yeah go watch 50 first dates to know more about this
- KidVicious, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"It's like being dead . . . one long night with no thoughts, no dreams. There’s no difference between day and night, I haven’t been conscious in 20 years."
How did he say that? It even takes longer than seven seconds to say that sentence so he would forget what he was talking about halfway through. - section31, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thanks for the torrents.
- underoath_777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I saw that episode of The Passionette Eye, it was very well done, and very interesting.
- nonex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yea I saw it too.. remarkable stuff.
- dj_sea2005, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0also. i would also like a torrent of this film
- Googled, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wasn't this on channel 4 (UK) about a year ago??
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0smooph... dude that is harsh ;p
- dakkoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've seen this documentary. Very interesting and its for real. It's a shame they are not repeating again any time soon. In one scene the guy meets his son who he hasn't seen in 7 years to only completely forget he has a son, seconds after he leaves. On a side note, the Passionate Eye plays lots of other great documentaries.
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