If you knew you were going to lose 4 months of memory, what might you do?

Have myself some drunken sex parties with all my friends grandmas. Poor old soles could do with a good time. Erase this from my memory immediately please! Phew, that was a close call….... what’s this grey pubic hair doing in my mouth!?! :¬(

I would not change my behavior except to leave myself some notes on what I had done for the four months.

A lot of writing.

@6rant6 – if you’re going to put strong criteria on how helpful or relevant an answer is, I’d suggest that you put the question in General instead.

Take a lot of pictures and recordings of my guitar playing….and write down all my passwords for sure!

@aprilsimnel Are you saying you’d write down what you would forget?

@the100thmonkey So maybe better to put, “humorless gits need not answer”?

@6rant6 He’s just sayin’..the social section was invented specifically for free wheeling answers, if they happen. The general section is much more strict about the type of answers that are allowed.

Lot’s of writing. I’d keep a diary where I would see it every morning, get curious, and open it to see what it was. I kinda do that now anyway. I have diaries that I add comments to comments that I made 20 years ago. Like, I’ll have recorded in my diary some concern I had about one of my kids who were little at the time (they’re grown now) and I’ll make a note of how it all turned out. :)

It would totally depend on which 4 months I might lose!

I saw Fisher’s show-and-tattle too and, though I laughed or at least smiled from time to time, I found myself wishing she’d lost more of her memory. Man, that is one bitter, ungrateful middle-aged woman.

As for what I’d do if I knew I’d lose 4 months of memory, I’d just continue trying harder to do what I’m doing now… make the most of every moment in the NOW!

So, I am thinking the OP is looking for wild and crazy shit that we would typically regret or feel ashamed about, but since we won’t remember it will have no effect on our psyche. I just can’t think of one thing. I was curious to see what others write. When I was a kid and could be more wild, and did not understand consequences or how I might regret something later, I still did not do crazy stuff or be mean to others on purpose. Not remembering would not effect my behavior I don’t think. It would sadden me to lose time though, unless something traumatic was affecting my life, then I might want to forget it.

By the way, I know more than one person who says ECT is one of the few things that gives them significant relief from depression.

@6rant6: that’s more honest, at least.

Now, please, put the handbag down; we don’t want anyone to get hurt.

WAIT! Are we talking about the four months prior to the surgery, or the four months after? That would have some bearing on my answer….

I’ve lot a lot more memories than that, so I would choose four months between year one and two, which I don’t remember anyway.

If I knew what period the memory loss would cover, yeah, I’d journal until the loss kicked in. After that, I probably wouldn’t remember to journal, so…

@dutchess… The sequence would be… decide to have the procedure, wait four months, have the procedure, lose those four months.

I thought people might ken the idea of doing something that would improve their lives but doing it would cause you guilt. For example, kill your enemies.

It seems counterproductive to me to forget about wild times. They’re only worth the risk because you have the memories for the rest of your life, no?

I would take lots of photographs and keep a daily diary, recording everything as it happens in great detail. But I don’t think I would change my behaviour at all. I moght forget everything but no-one else will!

I’d make sure I wrote down my passwords and had them stored someplace safe.
Now where did I put my darn fluther password?

@6rant6 Interesting.

OK, so you lose the four months before the surgery, which means you get to see it coming. I’d be vewy, vewy good because, as @downtide said, I may not remember but everyone else will!

My first thought was “nothing.” I mean, if I’m just going to forget it all, why bother doing anything special? But then I thought, I might as well do things that I need to do or would be nice to do but don’t need to remember (or wouldn’t want to remember). Background stuff like getting a lot of exercise or doing a lot of cleaning. Maybe some mildly traumatic medical tests that I’d be tempted to put off.

Also, I’d assassinate someone. Just throwing that out there.

@SavoirFaire Anyone in particular you wanna assassinate?

@Dutchess_III I don’t know. How prominent does the target have to be for it to count as assassination and not just murder?

Depends. According to Crisw, if you kill a spider it’s considered assassination!

@Dutchess_III Hmmm… Let’s just go with Than Shwe, then. No question that it would count as assassination.

What’s “Than Shwe”?

He’s the head of state in Myanmar/Burma.

Four months of memory might not be all you could lose. There have been cases where future memory is destroyed. That is, losing the ability to remember anything in the future, which would be devastating.