What's It Like To Have No Memory?

Memory is the diary of your life, but what if it didn't exist?

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[_edan]

My nan has dementia and she doesn't even know who I am. She even thinks my grandad is a murderer sometimes and shouts please don't kill me

[johnnyboy]

My grandmother and grandfather have alzheimers due to alcoholism, my mom has to indroduce me to them like i were a complete stranger every time we visit them. Sometimes they even say things like: hey you kinda look like one of my grandkids! And then i have to explain that i AM that grandchild.

[cup_check_old]

Let me tell you how bad it is to have no memory.
I will enjoy my favorite shows over and over again.

[tatetemrowski]

"What is it like to have no memory?" I don't remember.

[xTriton_]

*Fun Fact:-*
The 404 in the Thumbnail is a reference to "Error:404" which basically is "Data not found" and this video is based on Retrograde Amnesia (Forgetting things) and so the data is wiped out from their brain.

[australianmade]

My dad had Lewy bodies dementia. He couldn't remember how to put his jumper on. But when I jokingly told him i lent him 100 bucks and he forgot to pay me back, he smiled. Such a cruel disease. I miss you dad. Wish someone smart could find a cure so no one else suffers. Let's hope.

[internet__explorer]

I'd tell you how it's like to have no memory, but I forget.

[penguin]

If I don't have any memory, How will I remember to watch your vids? D:

[bananarama]

Thank you so much Life Noggin on creating a video on this. My grandmother recently passed away and she got Alzheimer's around the age of 5 and I'm nearly out of high school so I never really remember her before she got Alzheimer's. It has affected me quite a bit as I would've liked to have a grand mother and grand father to talk to or go to (they lived close to me) when I wanted to talk to family but not my parents. I never knew what it was like on her point of view and now I understand better. I'm so sad that Alzheimer's is so far incurable but I'm so thankful that doctors are spending so much time to try find a cure for this.

I'm not sure people understand how hard it is to live with someone with dementia, and even thinking about maybe having it in the future is a really scary thought.

[skpunk]

I watched my grandma degrade as I took care of her for many years because my grandma had passed away and it absolutely destroyed me on the inside to see someone who I loved so much go from happy and talking to now being stubborn and no longer speaks. I pray no one here gets this terrible disease.

[tipoffgiggots]

My great grandma died from alzheimers. She had it for a long time, I think over 20 years, and eventually it got so bad to the point where she didn't know how to eat, and eventually, she forgot how to breathe...

[callmejedii]

I thought it said "How it feels like to have no money" lmao 😂

[subscribeofficial]

I wish I can forget very great movies so I can enjoy watching them again

[blueberryvblogsgaming]

*that ONE time when i click on a storytime animation & a Life Noggin vid pops up & follows me to EVERY video i click on*

[RoboBoddicker]

My uncle had early-onset Alzheimer's. It's one of the most horrible fates you can imagine. His memory started getting quirky in his late 40s. He'd ask you a question, then ask it again 2 minutes later - that sorta thing. Then he lost his ability to do math, which also meant he had to quit his job as an accountant (he'd call my aunt from work crying because he just couldn't understand the numbers anymore). Things went downhill fast from there. Next year my mom had to warn us on the way to Christmas dinner that uncle was very sick. He'd have moments of lucidity here and there, but mostly he'd shuffle around, mumble hurtful things to my aunt and make her cry, try to wrestle his kids - he was basically gone. A couple years after that, he couldn't walk, talk, or feed himself anymore. I'd take care of him occasionally when my aunt was out. He was like a newborn - just lying in bed semi-conscious, no recognition in his eyes at all. I just hope he was too far-gone to suffer by that point. In his mid-50s he (mercifully) passed on. It's one of the saddest, most painful things I've ever experienced, and I can't even imagine what my aunt and their kids went through in those years.

Wanted to share this because I feel like a lot of people see Alzheimer's as a punchline, or something that "just happens" to old people before they die. It is a very real and very terrible disease, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

[PhongNguyen-sqlp]

Have u ever used a a hard drive?







It's very hard to remember

[some]

My granddad had this...

He could’t remember where the toilet was, and that he could’t smoke in the house...

And much more...

But now he is dead. I think that that is good for him.

[fiercecoffee]

My great grandfather had Alzheimer's. It was like he lived in the past, remembering very specific details of things years ago, but suddenly not remembering his granddaughters name, or where he is. Only one time in the years that he lived with my family did he say my name. I just stood there for like 5 minutes, so surprised.For whatever reason, unlike most people with Alzheimer's, he was actually happy. He laughed all the time and loved to color it you gave him the means to do so.Sadly he had a severe stroke and died 2 months after..

[glittermuffin]

My great grandmother had Alzheimer's. I was never alive with her but. When my mom and grandma + grandpa when they went to see her, she would always say "where is my husband?" Then they would have to tell her that he had died years ago. And she would have a total breakdown every day. This happened everyday when they went to see her. Honestly it would be heartbreaking to see someone i love cry about something that happened years ago everyday, because they forgot. And it is even so sad to see my great aunt, who i think may be developing something close to Alzheimer's but I'm not sure, look at me every time I see her and say "so..what's your name again? And whos kid are you again?" And just having to look her in the face without me totally bawling because I feel so sad for her because she lives at a terrible nursing home, but we can't find a better one for her, and that her life is almost over, and so many other things.

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