Kingdom of Knuffel

Yeah, that's exactly my problem. I can recite the Lion King's dialogues or sing Disney songs from memory but I can't remember my passwords. I usually just click forgot password

Yessss!
Same.
Although not so much with the Disney songs and Lion King's dialogues, ha ha ha, my "useless things retained by the brain" tend to be more randomly-unconnected-to-anything trivia than coherent stories like whole lyrics and the dialogues of a movie. Those actually sound marginally useful, since it's popular culture that many people would recognize and you can use as a common ground/common experience to connect to people.
Mine is just...
randomly useless.
Who needs to know that the old story about King Charles II's praise of the St Paul cathedral being "awful, pompous, and artificial" is mostly urban myth and the only evidence we have is that he approved the initial design as being "artificial"?
I mean...
The story version is more memorable, and illustrative of language shifts.
The historically-provable version is quite bland in comparison.
Why would you replace useful and memorable with bland?
But that's what my brain remembers.

Useless stuff like that.

I have one usefull skill, regarding my memory. I remember number sequences quite easily (not ridiculously long though, I still can't remember my bankaccount number although I did manage to remember my card number). But if I don't use them for a long period of time, they poof out of my brain. But I still remember my id number to my bank account. That's useful. When I'm not using the app. And I mostly use the app now...

Otherwise I'm good at remembering my stories and that's pretty much it. I often don't remember to drink water or eat, or pee

NooooO! Mem, take care of yourself! You are a precious being and you deserve all the food and potables and empty bladder!!

Haha, maybe I do, but I just can't be bothered apparently XD Human, bodily functions? Who cares, let me do something insignificant for 5 more minutes (it's never 5 minutes). I mean, I sometimes do significant stuff, but I make the mistake of "I can't pause the video, I can go to the loo when I'm finished with this video". An hour long video. You'd think I'm a masochist. Maybe I am...

Ha ha ha ha ha, that is so relatable though.
I guess people do workouts to improve their muscles so maybe going long stretches in between bathroom breaks can improve bladder abilities?
What a strange superpower that would be....
/regrets imagining it

memoriam wrote:I can go for hours before I can stop myself. I'm sure I could go for days. Mine are mostly fan-fiction, rarely do they involve myself. The fanfic ones I have many going at once, but I couldn't tell you how many. Some of them are variants of each other or spin-offs. The ones with me in them are just snippets.

If I didn't have any real life obligations, I could probably spend most of the rest of my life just making up stories in my head. And mine are also mostly fanfics, specifically self-inserts.

And most of mine are variants or spin-offs of each other as well, so we're really similar, lol! I tend to just choose a random formative-scenario and run with it, (Orphan? Weird person with no friends, or super popular? etc.), which transforms everything else that follows, but events still manage to intersect a lot because the main character is almost the same every time and tends to have the same personality-traits regardless. Huh.

Akili Li wrote:Ha ha ha ha ha, that is so relatable though.
I guess people do workouts to improve their muscles so maybe going long stretches in between bathroom breaks can improve bladder abilities?
What a strange superpower that would be....
/regrets imagining it

I can confirm that if you hold it in long enough, you at some point stop needing to go. Next time the urge comes you have to go though, lol. But I can go super long without needing to pee now, which is super useful during long stretches without a restroom! Not necessarily healthy though, hahah.

Akili Li wrote:It's all these little completely irrelevant things that stick and not the important stuff I actually need.

Story of my life... I can still remember most parts of the Shakespeare scenes I had to memorize in high school for English class. WHY BRAIN, WHY.

Well, the dialogue of early plays like that WERE specifically designed to be memorable...
I guess, good job on the author's part, then?
>.<

I wonder if that is more of a mental trick or a physical one that you learn? Maybe I'll try seeing how long I can delay....

memoriam wrote:Also I think the term is maladaptive day-dreaming

I've looked up the term, and I certainly relate.
I've read an article which almost treats it as a serious mental issue, and it's never felt like one to me though. More of an oddity.

Moon Star wrote:If I didn't have any real life obligations, I could probably spend most of the rest of my life just making up stories in my head. And mine are also mostly fanfics, specifically self-inserts.
And most of mine are variants or spin-offs of each other as well, so we're really similar, lol! I tend to just choose a random formative-scenario and run with it, (Orphan? Weird person with no friends, or super popular? etc.), which transforms everything else that follows, but events still manage to intersect a lot because the main character is almost the same every time and tends to have the same personality-traits regardless. Huh.

Wow, we really are similar!

I don't do self-inserts though, maybe because I don't think I'm a interesting person, lol. I once did that and suddenly they turned into their own person, idk how, but it just happened XD But hey, I could try that again, hm... Already got an idea XD (Oh no, haha)
Well, if it's mostly the same person but just their outside circumstances changed then maybe it's normal for them to still have the same traits.

Moon Star wrote:I can confirm that if you hold it in long enough, you at some point stop needing to go. Next time the urge comes you have to go though, lol. But I can go super long without needing to pee now, which is super useful during long stretches without a restroom! Not necessarily healthy though, hahah.

Exactly. I learned that during middle school and high school years when all the kids thought it was cool to smoke and they ALL did that in the bathrooms... So I, as an intense anti-smoker, couldn't even stand going there. And even if I did, I would reek of the cigarettes and my teachers would be surprised that I smoke... And I'd always tell them "I don't, I just visited the restroom...". So to avoid getting cancer and unnecessary interrogations from the teachers, I stopped using the bathroom at school. And it stuck with me

everything now seems more important than my bladder. Or thirst/hunger. Where that came from I have no idea. Maybe because I don't like eating in front of people and so during school I'd avoid eating... I don't think it's any disorder. Hopefully.

Akili Li wrote:I wonder if that is more of a mental trick or a physical one that you learn? Maybe I'll try seeing how long I can delay....

Nooo, Akili, don't do that, be the healthy and reasonable one!

Amura wrote:
memoriam wrote:Also I think the term is maladaptive day-dreaming
I've looked up the term, and I certainly relate.
I've read an article which almost treats it as a serious mental issue, and it's never felt like one to me though. More of an oddity.

I have in issue with it sometimes. Like I have important stuff to do and instead I pace around the apartment making stuff up and mumbling to myself. It's worrysome at times. And it somehow feels unproductive even in my spare time. But I'm a person with infinite guilt in my brain, so maybe that's why XD

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