Comments on: “Reality would become reality TV” http://www.inatthedeepend.org/2006/11/27/reality-would-become-reality-tv/ Just another WordPress blog Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:39:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jan http://www.inatthedeepend.org/2006/11/27/reality-would-become-reality-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-295 Jan Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:35:01 +0000 http://www.inatthedeepend.org/2006/11/27/reality-would-become-reality-tv/#comment-295 There's a character in 2 Orson Scott Card novels, "Speaker for the Dead" and "Xenocide" who has artificial eyes which record everything he sees so he can play it back on his computer. There’s a character in 2 Orson Scott Card novels, “Speaker for the Dead” and “Xenocide” who has artificial eyes which record everything he sees so he can play it back on his computer.

]]> By: Nic http://www.inatthedeepend.org/2006/11/27/reality-would-become-reality-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-289 Nic Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:11:24 +0000 http://www.inatthedeepend.org/2006/11/27/reality-would-become-reality-tv/#comment-289 That was really interesting. Ady has very few childhood memories whereas I have many but I am convinced that so many of them are triggered by associations. I can look at photos taken when I was only 3 years old and recall them being taken, my parents still live in the house they moved to when I was 4 and many of the memories I have had become much repeated family anecdotes. Ady has virtually no photos from childhood and moved about lots being cared for by a variety of fosterers, so there are no points of reference for him to hang his memories on. The screen saver on my laptop is random photos which D & S love to sit and watch and both can recall amazing details about some of the photos when they were just 2 years old - things I'm sure they wouldn't recall so clearly without the photos. I kept very long diaries as a teen (which will surprise noone who reads my blogs :lol:) and I love to sit and re-read them now, re-experiencing those highs and lows of that period through my own words nearly 20 years later. I sometimes look back at my blog a year or two years ago and enjoy reading my own records of details which I would never remember with such clarity just from memory. But I think photos and a blog are more than enough records for me, particularly as they are records only of *my* take on things that have happened rather than the reality show element of some of the records that the article was talking about. I'd hate to have my own embarrassing moments recorded without my right to edit what I shared first! :lol: That was really interesting. Ady has very few childhood memories whereas I have many but I am convinced that so many of them are triggered by associations. I can look at photos taken when I was only 3 years old and recall them being taken, my parents still live in the house they moved to when I was 4 and many of the memories I have had become much repeated family anecdotes. Ady has virtually no photos from childhood and moved about lots being cared for by a variety of fosterers, so there are no points of reference for him to hang his memories on.

The screen saver on my laptop is random photos which D & S love to sit and watch and both can recall amazing details about some of the photos when they were just 2 years old – things I’m sure they wouldn’t recall so clearly without the photos.

I kept very long diaries as a teen (which will surprise noone who reads my blogs :lol: ) and I love to sit and re-read them now, re-experiencing those highs and lows of that period through my own words nearly 20 years later. I sometimes look back at my blog a year or two years ago and enjoy reading my own records of details which I would never remember with such clarity just from memory.

But I think photos and a blog are more than enough records for me, particularly as they are records only of *my* take on things that have happened rather than the reality show element of some of the records that the article was talking about. I’d hate to have my own embarrassing moments recorded without my right to edit what I shared first! :lol:

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