Memories in 3rd person perspective

[PureExistence1]

As salaamun aleikum brothers and sisters,

I have kind of a weird question.

While sitting here and just thinking for a while, I realized that as far as I can remember, all my memories from childhood moving forward have all been from the perspective of me seeing the event happening from outside of myself, usually from the upwards vantage point. 

Are anyone else's memories like this?

Like for example, if I'm looking back over a memory of me holding a chicken when i was 9, I don't see the chicken in my hands, rather, I see the event unfolding from outside and above myself. And as I go back through most of my memories, that's the perspective that I see things from....18 years old jumping in the balls outside in McDonald's playland... I see myself and my best friend playing in the balls from outside myself. On remembering myself skateboarding on my ramp when i was 12, I do not see my memory through the eyes of a person on a skateboard going up and down the ramp, rather, I see myself from up high and from a distance watching myself skateboard.

It's like this with all my memories. If everybody else has memories from the same perspective, I'm wondering why it is that we see things from outside ourselves in 3rd person perspective and not from the perspective of 1st person and being the doer of the action.

Thanks for any input!

[AbdusSibtayn]

3 hours ago, PureExistence1 said:

As salaamun aleikum brothers and sisters,

I have kind of a weird question.

While sitting here and just thinking for a while, I realized that as far as I can remember, all my memories from childhood moving forward have all been from the perspective of me seeing the event happening from outside of myself, usually from the upwards vantage point. 

Are anyone else's memories like this?

Like for example, if I'm looking back over a memory of me holding a chicken when i was 9, I don't see the chicken in my hands, rather, I see the event unfolding from outside and above myself. And as I go back through most of my memories, that's the perspective that I see things from....18 years old jumping in the balls outside in McDonald's playland... I see myself and my best friend playing in the balls from outside myself. On remembering myself skateboarding on my ramp when i was 12, I do not see my memory through the eyes of a person on a skateboard going up and down the ramp, rather, I see myself from up high and from a distance watching myself skateboard.

It's like this with all my memories. If everybody else has memories from the same perspective, I'm wondering why it is that we see things from outside ourselves in 3rd person perspective and not from the perspective of 1st person and being the doer of the action.

Thanks for any input!

Wassalam, 

I feel the answer lies in psychoanalysis. Experience gets alienated from the self. Simply put, as time progresses, all objects, including our past 'selves' at various points of time, become just another 'thing' in the past, as in, we don't think of our childhood selves as our 'selves' any longer. Your 9 year old self is no longer your present 'self', but just some 'thing' that happened in the past. Your subconscious no longer identifies with your 9 year-old past self. Hence the memory in 3rd person. 

[PureExistence1]

3 hours ago, AbdusSibtayn said:

Wassalam, 

I feel the answer lies in psychoanalysis. Experience gets alienated from the self. Simply put, as time progresses, all objects, including our past 'selves' at various points of time, become just another 'thing' in the past, as in, we don't think of our childhood selves as our 'selves' any longer. Your 9 year old self is no longer your present 'self', but just some 'thing' that happened in the past. Your subconscious no longer identifies with your 9 year-old past self. Hence the memory in 3rd person. 

Thank you for your explanation, brother.

Do you also experience your memories in the same way?

[313_Waiter]

6 hours ago, PureExistence1 said:

Do you also experience your memories in the same way?

Yes.

[AbdusSibtayn]

9 hours ago, PureExistence1 said:

Thank you for your explanation, brother.

Do you also experience your memories in the same way?

Most welcome, sister. 

Now that you have set my brain churning, this is something that i am beginning to notice too. Most memories that I have are in 3rd person.