Concept

Human memory is a topic I had grown greatly interested in. Collaborating with department of psychology, City University of Hong Kong, I learned some interesting facts about human memories, which led to some critical thinking towards the disease Hypomnesia. Hypomnesia is a disease refers to having abnormally poor memory of the past. Decay of memory, with no doubt, is fearful and dreadful. By reading some of the chapters in Professor Robert A. Bjork's 'Successful remembering and successful forgetting', I learned some interesting facts about our memories that actually, lost memories can live again. That is to say, things that have long been oblivious still live in our minds, waiting to be woken. However, when we try to recall them, actively constructing the past, it seems that we have the possibilities to recreate the stories by choosing which memories to recall. Does the facts mean that we tried as hard as we could to bring something happened long ago back to our minds, nevertheless, our brain might had already altered it based on our subconscious preferences? That's why I came up the idea of visualise the abstract experience of reminiscence.