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Another mystery of memory is how many things men forget and how many things women remember.

Evidently emotion plays a big role in memory. That's why women remember everything, and we remember football games.

Much of that is true, but I think we often remember incorrectly, especially when we use our emotions as a guide. My brothers and sisters and I lived in a foster home. Our foster mother Milly, was stern and strict but loving, and though there were 9 foster kids in a four bedroom house with one bathroom, we were well-cared for and never left to our own devices. She kept us out of trouble, in other words.
At least that is what I remember, as do all but one of my siblings. My youngest sister, who was only four at the time, remembers a chamber of horrors. Things that never happened she swears happened. And she is a bitter, unhappy woman. And wrong about her memories.
Maybe one influences the other, and not always in a good way.

For Jewel ~
Research into the nature of DNA has revealed that this material within each cell of our bodies has important implications for who each one of us is, on many levels.

In addition to determining our physical characteristics, our vulnerabilities to certain diseases, and maybe even our personality, is it possible that the DNA helix holds some of the important memories of our ancestors? ~ http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/11660

Memory can be a mess. It is amazing that people recall the very same e nets so differently. I am pretty interested in this topic, because I think what we choose to store and retrieve what/how we chose remember makes us pretty much who we become over time. ... Well, I thought you might enjoy the memory/DNA train of thought. ~D

I have two interests in memory.

One is my hearing, which is hyper acute - something I learned only by accident. I didn't know there was a name for it. And secondly, a long memory of from an age things most people can't remember.

I can remember things as far back to the age of two. Not whole swathes of time, but incidents that I have recalled which my elders have confirmed and were startled to know that I could remember them with so clearly.

Weird things, such as the interior of houses that I'd only been in only once. And music.

I can play by ear songs I've heard one time, and recall from the distant past. I won't even know what the name of the song is, but I will remember it.

It drives me nuts trying to research pieces of music whose melodies and chords I can recall with perfect clarity, but not remember what the names are...perhaps I am an idiot semi-savant.

Would that make me semiotic?

Give me a sign. I'm desperate.

Damn. I edited that badly.