Implicit memory

And that is really paramount.

So I want to talk about the difference between explicit memory and implicit memory.

So explicit memory or procedural memory is like me waking up this morning and I can remember every single thing that happened today.

I woke up, my alarm went off, I took a shower.

Now, I can remember that procedural memory because I was primarily anchored in regulation as I was going through it.

And even if you have some dysregulation that's present, there's a following in a procedural way or an orderly way, the full arc of what occurred.

Now, implicit memory is the type of memory that we have when it comes to trauma.

It is not orderly.

So we were talking about this a bit off air, like this is a huge topic and it probably could be a whole bunch of episodes.

We're going to try to keep this pretty focused, talking about explicit and implicit memory or conscious, unconscious memory and Play around with that a little bit.

And then we'll also likely, you know, go down some paths that will reign in and have further episodes on.

Yeah.

I know how to play it.

I know what the person asking me to do, what they're doing.

And that to me is a semantic memory or sorry, explicit memory, right? They know really well different parts of the piece of music that they're playing so that if someone says bar 25 start there please you know they can play it whereas for me it was like i can't start there i'm just i have to start at the beginning again and that's the only way my memory will work to the very end and that's more of your implicit memory

exactly yeah so that's like muscle memory some people call it or like procedural memory and another like classic example is riding a bike right Like how hard it is to learn to ride a bike, how it can take like a year or two for, you know, even a child to go from training wheels to two wheels, right? It's not something that's easy.