This story gave me the same warm fuzzy feeling in my brain that I used to get as a child reading science fiction stories late at night in anthologies borrowed from the local library.
If only there was a way for me to again experience reading it for the first time…
I’d imagine that could be arranged. I live with an unusually fast rate of forgetting. With effort, I suspect my condition could be reverse-engineered and replicated.
After a couple years, I can re-experience something not knowing where the whole plot goes, but always knowing where the current scene will go. In games, I experience that with the plot, but still have my muscle memory. Great time for re-plays on hard mode; by this time I have almost all the skills, and almost none of the plot spoilers.
After about 5 years, I’ll remember roughly how something made me feel overall, but little else. This is often about the time when I seek out a re-exposure for the things I remember as being unusually high quality.
It’s unclear how long it takes exactly—matters are often unclear for me where they rely on my memory as a key input—but after some amount of time, my level of recall fades to “vaguely familiar” and then I completely forget that I’ve seen a thing at all. I’d estimate on the order of a decade or so.
I have the exact superpower people so often jokingly wish for around great media. As you can imagine from the nature of memory loss, I completely fail to appreciate my situation.
This story gave me the same warm fuzzy feeling in my brain that I used to get as a child reading science fiction stories late at night in anthologies borrowed from the local library. If only there was a way for me to again experience reading it for the first time…
I’d imagine that could be arranged. I live with an unusually fast rate of forgetting. With effort, I suspect my condition could be reverse-engineered and replicated.
After a couple years, I can re-experience something not knowing where the whole plot goes, but always knowing where the current scene will go. In games, I experience that with the plot, but still have my muscle memory. Great time for re-plays on hard mode; by this time I have almost all the skills, and almost none of the plot spoilers.
After about 5 years, I’ll remember roughly how something made me feel overall, but little else. This is often about the time when I seek out a re-exposure for the things I remember as being unusually high quality.
It’s unclear how long it takes exactly—matters are often unclear for me where they rely on my memory as a key input—but after some amount of time, my level of recall fades to “vaguely familiar” and then I completely forget that I’ve seen a thing at all. I’d estimate on the order of a decade or so.
I have the exact superpower people so often jokingly wish for around great media. As you can imagine from the nature of memory loss, I completely fail to appreciate my situation.