Posted by Larry Hoover on October 31, 2004, at 22:33:09
In reply to Memories *could be a trigger, about dead people*, posted by littleone on October 31, 2004, at 16:35:20
> I always thought that if a memory was repressed you would obviously have no recollection of the event, however, wouldn't you sense something there?
When I try to remember one particular aspect of my childhood, I have no problem remembering something said to me..."What are you crying about? I'll give you something to cry about!" I know I heard that many times, but I don't recall what happened after.....not explicitly. I know what happened after, but I couldn't describe a single incident in any kind of detail. I dissociated from it. Yet I do not doubt in the slightest what happened.
Something Mark said in that other thread helped me to remember something. I have an inordinate fear of wasps. I know they're just going about their waspy business, but they freak me out. Something must have happened.....and then I remembered. I was maybe seven years old, and checking out an abandoned farmhouse on some vacant land, probably one that burned down. There was a woodstove, one of those slim round ones, and I opened the door on it, out of curiosity. It was all one big wasp nest inside.
I have no idea what made me remember that, but a day before I did, I couldn't have explained the emotional reaction to a little wasp. Bees don't bother me, but wasps....
Memory is a funny thing sometimes, but that doesn't make it incredible....literally not credible. I believe what I remember.
Lar
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