I have noticed that when I recall memories, I most vividly recall details of certain senses - mine particularly being the sounds and "physical feelings" (touch) of memories. I have had friends who recall memories with different elements of the memories that were stored more vividly. Not sure if there's any basis for this anywhere?
I am asking because I am doing a semester-long research “study” and I want to do it on the connection between one’s primary “love language” and whether it correlates to one’s primary sensory memory. the friend I spoke to about our sensory memory both found a correlation between our memory storage and love languages so I hope to see if there is some evidence for this on a broader scale! But to do that I must have a reliable way of measuring people’s sensory memory.
I was thinking of making it a qualitative analysis and have them describe some vivid memories of heirs and then quantify it by identifying the sensory words they use in describing their memories.
Anybody have any other suggestions on how to measure this , if there is any?
That's interesting. How do you process when you talk to other people and they tell you something? Do you tend to feel what is being said or do you imagine it in pictures? Or is it completely different?
Carmen Wrede I typically take note of the way people say things. Their tone, their verbiage/word choice, etc. I guess sometimes I imagine pictures as well if someone is explaining an idea to me.
Do you find that you interpret your surroundings through certain senses?
I edited my question to reflect the reason I am asking my question! Note what I said about what I notice in processing people’s conversations with me…my primary love language happens to be words of affirmation…
Marie Cassandra Normally when people tell me stories from their biography I see it as an inner film. This film allows me then to make an empathical connection. I guess for a therapist it would be considered as projection.
Since you are in counceling would you say that this had an impact on how you process such informations?
"Do you find that you interpret your surroundings through certain senses?"
Not really. But I know for sure that interpreting memories is more visual for me, except those memories are linked to very strong negative emotions. Than a strong emotional component is like put on top of the visuals which can even 'outperform' the visual character of the memory and lead to defense mechanism, where I so to say either pause or even stop the inner film.
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