Do you think?

[SilentDreams]

That you block things out or have in the past?

I don't think its poor memory seeing how as far as I know I'm in good health(except being a bit overweight). No brain problems or anything and I'm young. But sometimes something makes me think about my past or makes me feel a connection. I wonder, have I blocked things from myself? My life doesnt' seem like much more than some scraps. I only remember bits and pieces, some are important, others aren't so important. But I wonder, have I blocked things from my mind? Is that why sometimes I feel as if something has a past with me but when I try to concentrate I can't push past that initial feeling of "Its familiar" and get through to memories?

Okay I'm rambling. But if anyone feels like this or has experiences with blocking things from memory please share.

[Arbor Wolf]

I can't personally say that I've ever felt that I've blocked anything out from my past... dealing with this life anyway. I have experienced situations where I felt a connection to a place or thing that seemed to pull towards the past, but never have I seen or felt anything to make me believe it connected in some way to my present life.

I have found through past life regression which a friend of mine studying hypnosis helped with, as well as my own personal 'journeys', that some of these things have had significance to my past lives. I can't say that about the majority of the times mind you as I haven't had an exorbitant amount of experience in the area. However I guess I have started writing things such as this off as having either some past life connection or possibly dealing with the future.

There have been a few incidents where what I thought was a past life Deja-Vu pertaining to a place or situation dealt with something from way back but in fact had a bearing in something which happened down the road from the initial intuition. Mind you, these are only my personal experiences and interpretations. If you have good reason, or a strong sense, that you might be blocking things out from your past then I say there is a reason for that feeling. Meditate on it, seek the help of someone who is familiar with regression (I have had success with it myself), or do whatever you feel will bring you to a point that you can be sure safely.

I wish you luck in unlocking your secrets.

[LadyTrinity]

It is possible to block some of your past.. Some people who have suffered from traumatic experiences tend to block it out so they don't have to deal with the pain anymore. I think we tend to store everything we see and do in our brains but it is certain memories that we tend to remember. This is why some people go to Hypnotheripists. To unlock the memories and go back and re live them at times. Is there anything in perticular that you feel like you've blocked out of your mind? Even if we block them.. I think they are still stored in the brain. We have our short term memory and our long term memory. The brain is a powerful thing! :ahhhh:

[Kyra Kismet]

I think that i have done this, i had a trumatic childhood while living with my 'natural' mother. Her gilfriends son sexually abused me and it really screwed me up, for years I thought it had been a dream. Then about 4 years ago it hit me that it was real and that he had done those horrible things to me when I was 6.
Also I can't remember anything from living with my 'natural' mom, and when i say nothing i really mean it, even if i try really hard i can't do it.
My counceller wanted me to be hypnotised to remember but i refused, my motto is 'If its not broken, don't fix it'.

[lil_suzie]

Yeah I know that I have and its made alot of problems for me.

[arctic splash]

I did that after a break up. I couldn't deal with all the memories at once so, in a sense, I guess they were suppressed. Over time, they slowly came back, things I should have never forgotten in the first place. Yes, it was painful, but it would have been unbearably painful had I remembered it all at once...

[Irene]

My Mother thinks I have, although not about anything as traumatic as some of the things that've been mentioned here thus far. I have this major mental block when it comes to math. I can do pretty much anything else but work with numbers. My mother has a clear memory of me having a lot of problems with my math instructor in third grade and she attributes my difficulties in the subject to that teacher. Apparently she made fun of me in front of the class for not knowing my multiplication tables. And there's a whole list of other stuff from that same teacher that Mom remembers but I don't. I guess she didn't like me or something. The odd part is that I remember most of that year--my other teachers, my friends, stupid stuff that happened on the playground, but I can't even remember my math teacher's face. So I guess I just summarily deleted that part since it was painful. Odd, no?

[LacyRoze]

I have recently discovered that I have blocked out some things from my childhood. While talking with some family members some things were brought up that I simply never remembered happening. Now after checking with different sources it is clear these things did happen and I had simply blocked them...

[PoisonIvy]

It's been sooo long since I went to college but in psych class we learned that there are different forms of amnesia. I don't remember the technical name of it but one form is when something so tramatic happens to you that you block it out.

I learned sign language when I was young because my aunt couldn't talk. When she died,I forgot everything that I had learned,I guess because her death really hit me hard!Then when I went to college I took it up again.
OVERCOME AND ADAPT.

[Wolfie Girl]

I'v blocked alot of my childhood out encluding an entire vacation. I wonder about it sometimes, but I''m not sure I really want to know why.

^..^

[Shana-chan]

I know that I've blocked out parts of my past. The one bit that I know of for certain is when I stepped on a nail. I don't know what I did, how I stepped on it, or even if I went to the doctors or if I bled. o.o; All I know is that there were two times in high school where I walked around with one shoe and one foot wrapped, and my mom wouldn't give me crutches (even though I needed them because it was very, very painful to walk on that foot). My friends tell me that I had stepped on a nail, but I certainly don't remember doing so. o.o