hearts in trees ♡

Pair of gold earrings with an Egyptian Atef crown set with stones and glass Hellenistic Period, 3rd–2nd century B.C. Materials: Gold, Silver & Glass Met Museum. 1995.539.11a, b

Cameron Chapman as Anthony Lockwood Let Go of Me, Lockwood & Co.

A BLURRED LOVE

Abercrombie & Fitch, 2003, shot by Bruce Weber.

may by Tom Disch

cd has a hole. record has a hole. casette has 2 holes. streaming? zero holes. i think i’ve made my point

#the ongoing saga

blue bird countdown -`♡´- ↳ [90/100] days of Jane and Lisbon

requested by anonymous

Frustrating each other when the other endangers their life to protect their life

you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?

Many people in the comments are saying “trauma”, but this is actually a very normal occurrence. It’s called Childhood Amnesia, and it’s a process which, as the brain reorganizes itself for cognitive thought that is developed in late childhood, it changes the Accessibility of those memories during recall. Many childhood memories are available to the person, but they will not be remembered during regular recall activity, you have to “trick” your brain into remembering with different tactics.

This is because there are two parts to memories - their encoding and their recall. The encoding determines their availability, their recall determines their accessibility. The reason why trauma memory and childhood amnesia are different is in this distinction. Trauma memory is often encoded differently, bypassing to the limbic system where it is stored as intrinsic memory. It can’t be recalled because it was never encoded. Childhood amnesia, however, seems to indicate that the memories are encoded, but we lose access to them as we age. This is most likely due to the development of brain structures that fundamentally change our encoding and recall of memory as we get older.

This is an important distinction, because trauma memory is “stored in the body”, i.e. you get triggers that send your body into a cascade of uncontrollable feelings, sensations and reactions. Whereas childhood memories won’t generally do that, they are just recalled at odd times with odd associations.

reblogging this because I’ve legit seen people freaking out when they realised they can’t remember some of their childhood, thinking they might have some repressed trauma.

Freier Fall (2013)