I only noticed this after scrolling my phone and realizing I knew the picture more than the afternoon it captured. When you rely on a photo as proof, your brain skips the deep encoding that makes a memory feel alive. Try not taking one thing this month and see which experience you actually remember more vividly.
Or, you just wind up having no memory, and nothing to jog your memory, cause straight up, the human brain is not capable of holding onto it all. There is certainly something to be said for living in the moment, but to condemn picture taking entirely is dumb.
afk_strats@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
The brain is incredibly malleable and, for a lot of people, memory is a vague image or a concept of something which happened. For a smaller subset, visual memory and visual imagination is not possible. Pictures are a more permanent visual representation, which can be additive to an experience. That’s not to say you shouldn’t live in the moment or that you should take pictures in lieu of making memories. You do you. I’m biased because I’m a photographer though.