EXPERICE EXAMPLES ABOUT MEMORY

EXPERICE EXAMPLES ABOUT MEMORY

# old cell phone
A 40 years old guy brings his old cell phone everyday and everywhere. His cell phone is more than 8 years old and very heavy to carry, and looks very ugly. However, he doesn’t want to change his cell phone to new one, because he thinks the old cell phone includes all his experiences of the last 8years. Besides many important phone numbers were saved in his cell phone and his cell phone also reminds him of many experiences that he lived through in the last 8 years.

- People tend to contribute many meanings to their personal stuff beyond their original functions such as a cell phone, a notebook that they bring every day. The stuff is perceived as a personal history recorder.


# small white stone
My friend traveled to Europe when she was a university student and she brought a small stone from one of river where she stopped by for a while during her travels. She put the stone in the kitchen to see every day. When she sees the stone, the stone makes her wear a smile and drag her to past good memories.

- The metaphor of the memory includes not only a context of the experience, but also related memories of a similar time when the experience happened.
- If people store could use metaphors which could make them remember memories of their life, is it possible to record our entire experiences?

# at late night
One day late at night, a person who lost his grandmother several years ago spread out his old album and looked at his grandmother’s pictures. At that time, he knew he was missing his grandmother too much and dropped one his tear.

- Depending on time and context, the personal emotion and feeling of experiences are totally different.
- How can people recall their memory whenever they want to?