The Man With The Seven Second Memory (Amnesia Documentary) | Real Stories 

i... i mean its the truth

Please come visit mean hospital if I ever have another seizure.

Comedy Gold, literally

imagine "coming to" while laughing to a joke and not knowing why

Nahhhhh🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I feel that

Music

@@SAM-bz9zj I imagine that you can only handle it so often.

@@SAM-bz9zj I agree it's too little time wise. But I don't think it's easy to be there and have almost nothing of your mate left.... Just a body and a wit, but no recollection of your history, no way to connect on anything except the current moment.

You mean meth?

I guess the only solace being that he doesn't remember being enraged about it. Imagine waking up every minute, but actually retaining how maddening it is... that would drive me to kill myself, for sure. But for him, it happens again and again, but he has no memory of it.

@@Erekai yk I guess you’re right but the way he says it every time and the way he’s scrawled it in his notebook/diary and the fact that he sees the previous entry just a few minutes ago would probably still be terrifying. The human brain is fascinating I just can’t imagine what it’s like

Maybe. It could be like how we dream though. Just a constant, strange state where you want to ask questions but you just sort of go along with stuff until you wake up.

@@JJokerMoreau I imagine sometimes he realises it though, or even being just on the brink of remembering it is so frustrating

@@JJokerMoreau wow! That was a super well thought observation... dreams have the same dynamics as what he's experiencing!

There needs to be a Black Mirror episode based on this.

9:00 this clip?

I think its 16:10 @@hypermangi8265

@@hypermangi8265 No

Him being a bit childish is a way of coping, I guess. The wonder and excitement he sometimes shows like he's still a much younger man. It's terrible but also inspiring to see him lifting himself up that way too.

😂😂😂

HAHAHA

This is so funny

I literally thought the same way thing, I really wonder what his answer would have been if there wasn't any of the brain damage...

Intents

That's one reason why don't believe he can just think 7 second far. He wouldn't be able to say something so deep. Because from listening to the question, then find such an amazing answer and put it into words needs AT LEAST 1 minute.

@@thomasb.2506 In my opinion British people are way snappier with things like this, they're very witty and charming. I'm not surprised at all that this came to his mind, as he is dearly in love with his wife still, he even calls her semi-frequently, but I'm sure it would be more often if it weren't for the people helping him.

Tom&Leyla Brown I say way deeper things when in a similar state of being absolutely baked

@@thomasb.2506 it's a skill, just like playing music, he's good at improvising

I think it's not so much that he can only remember things for 7 seconds, but rather that he can only hold on to one train of thought, and as soon as he lets go of that train of thought he's forgotten it. He clearly carried conversations much longer than 7 seconds in the video.

My Precius, now-deceased uncle hit that point. He'd write notes to himself, then be humiliated (by himself) as he discovered what he'd written to himself. God bless his soul, a former WWII pow, he sacrificed greatly in life.

My grandma had Alzheimer's. She was put in a nursing home and loved it. She thought she was on vacation at a resort and they were forgetting to charge her for meals. When I was in high school I volunteered at a nursing home. There was a patient there who would constantly shuffle papers around his room. He was very disagreeable, UNLESS you brought a stack of papers in and started shuffling them around too. Turns out, he was "working" and if you tried to talk to him he thought you were a lollygagger. However, if you shuffled around papers he thought the two of you were working on something together and he'd love talking with another hard worker. You can lose your physical strength, and you can lose your mental ability, but your attitude sticks with you.

I would say he is like a dementia patient but I wouldn't say he is fully aware of anything

@@travtotheworld What i dont get is how did he understand What Hard work looked like if he forgot other simple things in life. I guess for him throwing papers around was like breathing. It became something he was doing subconsciously without even knowing why. The thing that shocks me is that people who have dementia still remember language, writing skills, and maybe even where they went to school but they dont have any idea what they ate for lunch 5 to 6 hours ago though. It's almost as if they are choosing what to remember and what not to remember but at the same time they couldn't possibly be choosing because most of the conscious centers of the lobes in their brain specifically maybe the frontal and occipital lobes are going haywire.

It makes a lot of sense if you look at the parts of the brain he lost. I dont have any insight into that but it his personality is not lost. Him as a person is there but cant realize himself. Its like you being in the dark seing nothing but being there very much.

Wrong, he does NOT understand his situation or why he is the way he is.

@@merodbloxlover45 and you know this how?

@@joelthorstensson2772 That’s the information we’ve been told, read up on it. His understanding is he possibly woke up from a coma, he frequently ask to see a doctor, or someone. He simply can not understand his situation, not in the time allotted nor under most circumstances this is a very difficult thing to process let alone under a minute. To my understanding he seems to have an extremely friendly personality and understandable one too. I know if I was asked what seems to be seemingly dumb question, I would answer quite aggressively, honestly makes me want to change. But back to the point he doesn’t understand what happened, he has a sense of self.

@@toms.4382 This doesn’t explain that now he is much more mellow than before. He used to have tantrums and fits of rage because of his frustration at what? Not being able to properly live. Over time that mellowed down, obviously he’s not consciously aware of that, but maybe subconsciously

Completely

I bet he was a hilarious smartass before this happened

Nothing wrong with speech and playing music :) He also seem to have a good mood most of the time, but probably often confused and sad too. Cool old man :)

Jaja. He is still smarter than most Americans.

Smarter than libtards......

it is sad. Its like his brain is trying to jump start having a consciousness but with the hippocampus so damaged, the brain then cant imprint a memory.

What really got to me was in the beginning when he was playing the piano and he said "I've not heard a single note of music in 20 years". Being a musician myself and having friends that are also musicians and sound producers, this just made me feel absolute despair, your body knows how to do what it's been taught but your mind never hears or recognises the talent and skill that was developed over many years nor not being able to hear any new music from new musicians or share and play music together with your mates, for me it'd be absolute torture, for such an accomplished man like himself I can't even begin to imagine what it'd be like

Bro was really guessing "head of the British Empire"

@@thenneklkt7786 even with brain damage he has a better sense of humour than you

the way he so calmly says it too. It's so strange

“In what... 30 years?”

I don't believe he can understand loneliness in its entirety anymore. It's the weirdest paradox of being stuck somewhere in the middle.

he says he feels like he’s dead. he’s literally living in limbo.

his aggressive outburst probably stopped due to him growing lonely

she is a gem.....an amazing woman

Very true.

Nice synth rack mate, Is that a memory Moog depicted in the middle over the Jupiter 8?

you said it barry

He could not HAVE, not OF. How did you not learn this in school?

I think that is why it was done so in Space odyssey 2001 with H.A.L.

Yep, it's because music is one of the things that uses more different parts of the brain, from semantic to motor abilities

And every seven seconds… he dies. Without memory, are we alive? The person we were is dead.

@@mrvilla5972 Perhaps the most brutal truth about ourselves is that we are just born and we are just dying the memory that was created during evolution creates the illusion of permanent identity within one body. This is more or less the position of neurobiologist Sam Harris There is only experience - there is no one who has it There is no one who has a thought - there can only be a thought that thinks someone has it this thought is a separate unique person

@@dav.e4410 that’s not a “truth”

@@matheuscabral9618 i don’t know what is truth what is your point of view?

@@dav.e4410 I actually misread your comment, I thought you meant that at every moment we died and were born again, that's why I said it wasn't "truth", but whatever "truth" means I am a Christian and so I believe you don't just die and that's it. It's weird how the moment now feels more vivid than memories. I remember a dream I had some day that I was walking through the corridor in my house then when I woke up I walked there again and thought about how it felt much more vivid and how obviously it wasn't a dream. But thinking about it today that feels less vivid than me being now. I've actually been thinking more lately, or maybe I don't remember everything of some time ago, but I wondered if you could possibly run out of things to think, I wonder how eternity is, what are you gonna be thinking about after some amount of time, what if you reach a conclusion on every thought you could have. So um, idk, my point of view is that it will be good, the only conclusion I reach about this more existencialistic things is that it will work out, just the way things are, and the sheer existence of them is beautiful, and that God is good and made everything with love

Does it terrifies you when he remembers eating... And forgets everything else

Well put, Gideon Jones.

@@goite2654 and he cant remember what he ate

@@goite2654 no...thats basic instinct and for the body to survive it needs energy

@@goite2654 he won’t remember what he ate but he will definitely know that he is full or is hungry. The feeling of your stomach and hunger is like breathing, it’s involuntary. You don’t have to tell yourself to be hungry and eat, it’s all on autopilot

What I don't understand is how he doesn't remember anything, but does know it has been 30 years, and does remember it occurs due to him being ill

Yepp yepp

In jesus name amen

Then again seven seconds later.

@@lohphat You say that, but honestly everyone seems to have essentially made their peace with it. Even Clive himself. I wouldn't say this is particularly pleasant for anyone, and you can most clearly see the pain in his kids, but they haven't seen him in so long he may as well be dead to them; the pain would be the same. The wife has grown to appreciate this to that alternative. Apart from frustration and appearances, it doesn't seem so bad as to wish death for him.

No one is faking that for 30yrs

Music is stored long-term in a different part of the brain from other memories, so it doesn’t get affected when the other parts dealing with memory are damaged. That’s why they use advertisement jingles, and why jingles can help dementia patients who otherwise can’t keep a hold on any information.

Plus, sane people can’t hang in mental institutions. The few people who have managed to avoid prison via an insanity plea most always end up begging to be sent to normal prisons after a very short time. No one is sticking it out for 30 years for attention or to avoid family life. I’m sure there are a lot of nuances to Mr. Wearing’s disability in regards to short term and long term memory. His brain doesn’t just do a complete factory reset every 7 seconds. He’s a human being, not an iPad. The truth is, it’s difficult for people to even begin to fathom what he’s going through. A normal brain can’t comprehend what it’s never been through. It’s easier for some to cast judgment than it is to use enough empathy to try and get a grasp on what a complicated and horrible ordeal he and his family are facing.

@@catherinespark isn't there like a study or something that proved whenever a person plays an instrument, the neurons in the brain basically go ballistic like fireworks.

@@AxleTradeI don't know of a specific study, but playing music and telling a story are the 2 most engaging things a brain can do. They often have people do these things during brain surgeries. There is something about how we as humans interact with patterned sound (music) that we DO NOT understand the full scope of.

'what do you think we'll find when we get in' 'alcohol' this man is my idol honestly he may have no memory but he has sass

I loved that part

my favorite scene - he's so endearing.

Libby my favorite is when he asked the reporter if she was getting paid she said yes and he genuinely happy for her . . . he is still a great person

Who wouldn't miss a witty, charming, self-effacing man like that? Especially if he loved one so much? Yes, I believe Deborah finds him irreplaceable. He cannot remember anything, except that she is all things to him. And, of course, he remembers the process of playing for every piece he chooses to play on the piano, and the processor apparently continues to run to the cadence unimpeded. This is the miracle: her face, figure, voice, and dress are altered by time, yet she is his own dear girl from the moment he catches sight of her, with no questions necessary--just joy. That, I'm sorry, is not science, or at least not science we can now codify. So it is magic, and I wish them well.

He has no recollection of saying it previously or, perhaps to an extent, who the people are. Man that must be so frustrating.

@@joannestark3023 in fact, it isn't... because he has no idea he did say it before and he is stuck in a loop... i wonder how he breaks out of this loop... would he be stuck FOREVER if his room wouldn't change? or have no humans inside?

I wonder if he has recollections of his life and who he was prior to the virus mentioned in this video. Am curious how he is doing now some 15 or so years after this documentary was made. I can't find his wife's book on Kindle, unfortunately. :(

my aunt has lost her ability to remember things from a few seconds ago, much like him, but obviously not as bad. i can say though that my aunt repeats phrases and completely forgets she had ever said it. it’s kinda scary but unlike him she remembers past memories

Maybe, but he is a very smart man, despite the amnesia. He's probably figured out more than a few times that he has said a phrase more than once. It probably goes something like he comes up with "new" phrase, figures out he's probably has said it before and then immediately forgets. Poor dude

it's really strange, really interesting. before i got diagnosed with MS, the symptoms caused me to fall and hit my head. due to that fall, for days, my memory was resetting every 10 minutes. i was aware somehow, going "oh it must be my memory, why am i forgetting, it must be this new weird thing happening to me." but i couldnt remember any other new information. i always wondered how and why it worked. strangely it all came back to me after my memory got better, and i suddenly remembered duplicates of every moment where i asked or did things over and over lol

@@bnuuyboy my god, the fact you remembered everything only AFTER your memory came back is astonishing, genuinely fascinating!! God, i love the human brain

​@@Bocchi-db8ncproven real

He doesn’t know continuously. He has to deduce it afresh every time from the massive blank in his experience whenever his consciousness “reboots” every seven seconds.

​@@catherinespark Personally, I understand you're talking about how he's not able to obtain and retain information consciously, but I don't think this is the full story. Notice how he started out in the hospital realizing his condition for the first few weeks until he became more confused and angry, to eventually, in a strange way, accepting the situation; but in a very depressed and apathetic way. After years of repetition from the hospital to the home, his brain learn to close off and accept the situation. He even learned to articulate the feeling of his condition with "it's like death". I personally think the healthy parts of his brain had to compensate for the damage. He can still play piano cause his motor skills, reasoning and reading are still intact. He still knows his wife, even through age, by experiencing emotional connections that are the strongest. No, he can't remember why or where he is, but his brain is helping him cope as best as possible with the sections that are still intact and I believe he does know his situation in a way you and I can't fully comprehend.

@Mister Paradise I know it must be terribly difficult for this woman. I do hope she goes back and views this video and comments. Then she would realize The importance of being by his side more on a daily basis or perhaps a couple times a week. I know I have seen many people go through similar situations however I think her situation is much better than what I have seen my friends go through when dealing with dementia. I do hope she returns to him more quickly because he awaits for her return. I am sorry I have not replied quicker. It seems to be RU-vid is not sending me comments or replies back towards my comment. To me this is a form of censorship and I do not like what has been taking place. Anyway have a great day.

@WhatsTigUpToNow ? Beautiful 💯😊

Or another way to look at this is after so long of marraige (I guess even though he doesn't know how long it's been) he still get this crazy love for her

its actually kinda sad she couldve tried to visit more than once a month

Good comment

I literally just seem that part. Awesome

tell me about that fantroll

@@pinkgoth6 that would mean thinking back to my late high school/early Uni days and psychologically? That'd be a massive blow.

Come on!!...really??

@@pinkgoth6 no

yeah.. why are you

Studies have shown that people with dementia can and WILL learn motorical skills like drawing, chooping, playing an instrument. They unfortunally forget learning it but the skill will build up with time. Hope you can find something that makes her live more enjobable. Best wishes to your mom, you and your family

He's just such a softy :]

This made me laugh so much 🤣

Didn’t he say alright? Either way that was super cute

he dont want to be nuisance to anyone

So do I .

Yes, he has a bright light up in his head, but he has lost most of the things this light can hit.

LMAO your profile pic! Kirby and Peter Griffin

@@ericmsandoval kirby griffin: its a testament to his chatacter..... ;) imagien kirby griffin talking.

bimpson

His condition doesn't really give him a choice to do otherwise

Hoping and praying that you're better and that your situation will continue to improve. May God bless you in Jesus Christ!

was just about to say the same

"people told him to slow down. he never did". i would agree.

Talk about someone being sharp as a knife. Tragedy such a disease crippled such a genius mind.

Yes, this guy is amazing, funny and witty even in this condition, imagine how intelligent he was at his full potential

moral of the story. never be too busy that you dont wash your hands before you eat.

I’m in tears for Debrah, can you imagine?

Jacob D I can only imagine... She must be a strong woman. God bless her.

She said God did bless her, remember? She found the love that filled her emptiness. I have felt it as well, though I am agnostic. I am unsure if it was a "god" I felt, I tend to think it was more like our connection to one another, that we are all linked and together we are "god". People can feel that link sometimes.

@@LadyPashta i know exactly what Debrah is speaking of, because i experienced the same thing. to fill the empty void inside you, you need Jesus, there is no other way. I got down on my knees and asked Jesus for forgiveness, (i was not raised Christian) and basicly asked Him to reveal Himself to me, and He did. it was the most supernatural thing i ever experienced, it really cant be explained through words.may God bless you and reveal Him Self to you.

LadyPashta Why would someone pretend to be her husband?

@Lord Bang-a-Lot my guy simping to the fullest

IKR!!! I wish she would visit him more 💔💔

Ugh they love each other so so much. It's so wholesome.

@Johnny Steffy so he remembers her but doesnt remember she was there a month ago? Hard to believe, crazy.

It breaks mine. It would have been better for everyone if he totally forgot his wife. She probably, because of that, had felt bound to him. Not everyone is cut out to live a life of servitude with nothing in return. Her whole life was wasted along side his. It's doubly tragic. She must have cursed the fates for that - he remembers nothing but me?? God.

Yes, she's a very beautiful, impressive soul.

His ex wife tortures him ! She takes him to the church, where he conducted before his memory loss. After this she tells him the whole story about him conducting, with such a sweet voice as if she loves him. As you can guess, he starts to cry, because he does not remember anything about it. This wife is a mean serpent, I hate her !

Achatina Slak You are the stupid person everyone searches for in the comment section.

With the way she speaks if you told me she was a published author I would not question it.

@@CC-tw6su his logic, is of that the lib hive mind cannot understand, it's called logic and realism.

I'm amazed she persevered for 9 years tbh

but she also came back... and then renewed her wedding vows....wow

He’s only trapped in our perception of what being trapped means. To him, his condition is perfectly normal.

@@alexblaze8878 not at all, he himself even talks about his state of “unconsciousness” being comparable to death. In every mental sense of the word, the man is trapped. It is quite hard breaking

@@nathmukherjee8865 that seems odd considering his 7 second memory

@@alexblaze8878 it likely took years of hard work and effort to get him to stop panicking about losing time and "being unconscious" every few minutes to ingrain into his long term memory what is going on.

He isn't the same person. He's a partial person in his mind. He looks the same and sounds like the same man. Beyond that there is no memory of anything. Claiming love continues is wrong. He doesn't know his own children and they said he loved them.

still is you see the way he plays piano

you can really tell the raw condition of his brain, because now you can just see how it is without all his experiences , emotions and memories in the way. Like for example something is in us maybe grown into us as we grew up in our teenage years that is not our memory but something beyond the psychological realm that grows in our brain. This gives such a chance to see this part of the brain because with memory and all the rest in the way you and neither the person itself can see the raw brain.

@@TrollProductionsMC Not really, he still has memories. He just doesn't have the ability to make new ones or retain short term memories. There's a frame of a person there, most certainly not a raw brain.

@@Simulator51 He doesn't have memories of events, it's his first time seeing his wife but he knows its his wife, he knows stuff but doesnt know the events and why he knows these stuff. With raw brain I don't mean a brain without anything as I said a brain without experiences, emotions and memories in the way.

@@Simulator51 They said he doesn't have any memories, not even his old ones. He has what you could call "ghosts" of memories. He knows he's married, but he doesn't remember the courtship or the wedding. He knows his son's face, he just can't remember how, nor his son's name. He doesn't know that he was a composer for the BBC. He doesn't remember ever having met a person before, and repeatedly says through the video, "You're the first people I've ever seen in my life. I have no memories before this." Yet he knows what people are; he knows how to talk, how to make clever remarks, how to sing and play songs. You could surmise that his brain has lost the ability to store details about events, but some of the farther-reaching information and the skills acquired from those events are stored in a different part of his brain that still works.

Marcel Zager To send 20 years without learning ANYTHING new...

his still passionate and intelligent. memory taken away does not take away his character

you can see he is still himself. he still has the subconscious cognition that he always had it seems. But he just doesnt know where anything came from. I read every line of the diary that i could and you can see that he isnt completely gone otherwise every entry would be the exact same revelation almost, but as years went on his book drastically changed even some of his vocabulary changed. He became less angry as time went on because i think his subconscious is still there in some capacity and our subconscious comes from our experiences so there is some "remembering" going on that he doesnt realize.

@@verbatimshelf3121 long term memory is stored differently I think that's why

@You're Not That Guy there's something called procedural memory that is stored differently in the brain

Just like PTSD.

True... 0-0

like a broken record

Like Momento

When my grandma was alive and had alzheimer's, she'd have these moments where she'd become aware that there was something wrong and she'd start crying and asking why she was like this. Then a minute later she'd go back to being lost and out of it. Super sad

All he has is the present.

Really weird yeah

@@ivyarianrhod all we have is the present

@@dfredankey But you have past and future too to hold. Not him. Present is all he has.

This thread is deep.

Yeah I was kind of thinking the same thing. I remember every good and bad thing from my life and sometimes I hate it.

I wish I could forget some memories ...

I am very thankful for your comment 🤗🤗

@Jan Sitkowski you wouldnt be happy about your condition. You wouldn't even know you have this condition. You wouldnt be able to think long enough for that. All you would know is confusion and that nothing in your life makes sense anymore.

@Jan Sitkowski this condition would give you a whole new level of worry and no way to work through it. I cant imagine a worse state.

i’m slow but could you explain this quote by any chance

@@CarlosFlores-xf2sn Having not scored a point yet, in tennis, is called "love". so when a match starts, the score is 0-0, and then when one person "scores" it is announced as "15-love".

Thank you

I’m gonna go panic for a bit...

Ikr wtf

What’s your favorite documentary that you’ve seen ?

@@brochacho8156i watch alot of docs but i don’t have a fav, i pefer music and films personally. I never trust enough to allow someone to show what their reailty is, its like fiction to me.

This is the first documentary I've ever seen

Same. Ugh frightening af

@@brochacho8156 I needed color Jim Carey is really good

It's heart warming

so beautiful yet so sad that poor man

goes to show how strong love can be..........and music.💗🎵

its a fraud, give me a break. "I haven't heard a single note..."

LOL What a couple of morons!!!!!!!!!! He just admitted/ gave it away that he does remember what he did, he conducted the concert there "for the acoustics". Cos he's a complete prick! LOL He finishes a lot of other peoples' sentences doesn't he for someone with virtually no memory..?

That has to be it. When he says “I’ve never heard a note” or “I’ve never seen a person” but he knows what a note is and he knows what a person is.

@@Michelle-rv9ks right

I recommend the book, "The Power of Habit", which delves deeper into how a lot of things become habitual and instilled into a deeper part of the brain called the basal ganglia, saving the brain resources making some things automated. A similar case of having only short-term memory is brought up within the book, very interesting stuff.

I was thinking the same thing.

It's non-declarative memory, and therefore a different memory that doesn't seem to be affected by the virus. He seems to have problems with his declarative memory.

🥺

Heartbreaking

@don't care unfortunately that is the tale of life. Things are very unfair and more often than not, things don't go according to plan... I try to look at the bigger picture of things whenever I feel like such, I compare the largest existing star to our planet to be reminded of how small we really are.

If wonder why he’s stopped outbursting angrily then..... extreme amnesia produces extreme melancholy. You wouldn’t wanna make the first person you’ve seen (you think) in 30 years upset.

What's interestingly curious is how he knows about 30 years has passed since the incident.

And that "I DO LIVE!!" written in the same way at 21:01

The entirety of that diary was eerie to look at

try it out, it will make you feel...

@@twaggs21 feel what

Shows the mental torture

Ksenia like how he knows to check his watch & record in the dairy.. that he subconsciously knows to do certain things or think about them

Yeah it seems his brain has just submitted to it. Given up trying to fight against it.

i'm sure that whether he consciously remembers it or not, he's also sick of having to answer the same questions over and over and over and over and over and perform these same little tricks over and over and over for "normal" people to watch in awe and horror and feel humanity again in their ability to feel pity for him.

He's still in there. His subconscious. When she spoke to him in the church about how much a difference he's made you can see him getting choked up. She spoke for so long his subconscious was listening the whole time. We know so little about our brains. Another interesting thing was him being upset in the early years with the condition and how it settled. I believe his subconscious accepted it whether he's aware of it or not. I'm trying to think of an example of this in a fully capable brain but I can't think of any at the moment. I may come back and edit this comment with examples.

That and the environment around him has probably adapted to his condition which helps him cope

I can’t find it pin it

@@hellohellohello517 5.50

I mean he can only remember seven seconds, so does that mean he is only alone for seven seconds?

But he doesn't realize he only has a seven second memory.

NOOOOO, THATS HORABLE, HE DESERVES SOOOOO MUCH MORE, I WOULDN'T WISH THIS APPON ANYONE 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭!!!!!

So sad

You're comment, and the realisation that that is how he must feel all the time, really hit me hard. It must be a very lonely existence for him.

Yeah I wonder if he’s on medications or if it just happened like that. I’d think that if he was persistently agitated, some sort of sedative may have been prescribed but who knows.

@@joshuagavaghan224 There's a point in the documentary where it's mentioned that they don't know why he's become so calm over the years. Maybe generally being at peace or generally being frustrated has to do with a part of the brain that is not influenced by the hippocampus.

Not to hard to imagine. While most of the damage is permanent, the brain is still incredible at making new connections for old systems. Of course this process only goes so far sometimes but it seems like parts of his brain have learned to become accustomed to his current condition. All that cortisol being released is still recognized by the brain sub-conciously so internally it knows he was constantly in a stressed state and something had to be done about that. Just my theory though.

let's not forget that he is highly drugged

Id guess hormone levels changing with age Drugs Or what id put my money on something akin to muscle memory doing its work which doesn't require the hippocampus to work remember most of his brain still works

God bless

I'm sure your someone's heaven on earth. 😇

a hit and a miss

Debra is amaziiiing !!! I found her so calm and patient it's beautiful !

I read this as it played on the video haha

I don’t get it 😭

@@loober.6500 "love" is the term for a score of zero in a game of tennis :)

@@tirsedenia ohhhh yo he smooth 👀 lol

i think he said intentness instead.. turn on captions :) 6:55

@@kimberly.z no he definitely said tennis..

1st thought: I love Deborah

Goddamn that brings tears to my eyes

😢

The irony! I knew a man named Mike who had a similar condition, only he had about 15 mins of memory. His wife, Debbie, cheated on him and spent all their money mostly gambling. He had a a notepad that read Debbies gone, etc. etc. Basically a front page with reminders for himself that were mostly terrible. She managed to lose their home which was the only familiarity he had.

@@mentok3027 That's awful. I hope he can find someone who actually cares for him, and not use him for money. Even lost the house.. just terrible :(

Have you seen Memento? It is a wildly different story but features a main character who also cannot take in new memories. The story is told in chunks in reverse chronological order, such that at any given moment, we, just like the main character, have no idea what happened earlier. It is a unique experience.

@@saniancreations yup, I've seen it. It's a great movie! I just think that Clive's story is so remarkable, it demands to be made into a movie.

​@@Lord_Procrastinatorthere is movie with a similar concept about a women with one day memory. It is a love comedy but serius enough about the subject and has a touching end

because he doesn't know anything? he can recognize stuff, but there's no memory. I think you'd know if you've had no memory. he's incredibly famous, i'm sure actual professionals have confirmed it and you watching a documentary cant confirm something or denounce something they cant

@@kovici7226 ...yes, the human brain is certainly a mechanism of mystery.

I think he has commited that to his long term memory actually (at least what's left of it, as he can remember numbers and his wife, and do things like recgonize his son's). He has managed to come to that conclusion so many times it's finally stuck as a truth in his mind. Same as the "it's exactly like death" quote. What I find fascinating about him is just his sheer intelligence to be able to do that and also his inner workings of understanding that his situation reminds him of one that is dead.

I found that very intresting too, He knows I've never seen these people...this is truly something of the beyond, Very rare case.

Yeah

Who visits once a month and didn’t take poor the man to the hospital. She ain’t that innocent!!!

@@adamoganyan8981 You try to deal with him only remembering every seven seconds on an every day/365 days a year and it would probably drive you insane.

... it's strange to bring marriage into play here. This is story about a connection that goes way deeper and far beyond. Like she said: She's also a widow. And of those ... some remarry, some don't. Some have to in order to live, some need to stay away from that. But you're right: Deborah is an awesome woman. And they are still a lovely and cute couple.

@@FR0STBL0D I agree with you. My comment does seem to say that other spouses who leave, are lesser. That is definitely not true. I don't know if I could stay. One doesn't know until you are in the situation. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

Good on her for sticking around but I don't really understand why she only visits once a month seeing how much he enjoys her company. I mean I guess It doesn't make a difference whether she visits once a day or once a month because seven seconds after she leaves it will feel to him like he has never even met her before, aside from knowing that she exists. It must feel like somewhat of a burden to her.

Exactly what I was thinking.

I know. What a witty and intelligent man.

It would take serious sharpness of mind to continue functioning as well as he does with the brain damage he has.

Was he talking about death?

@@c_urrutia I think "her arrival" was referring to death

@@gandalf1753 I had the same impression...

@@c_urrutia, I feel like he was talking about his wife because the camera shows a photo of her on top of the piano right after he answers.

@@c_urrutia I think that’s him having at least some understanding of his current reality: he waits for time to elude and disappear in his next “consciusness reset” and then for the arrival of his wife, as he perceives her again.

Wouldn’t it be interesting if he could have half a brain transplant or something? I’m sure every single possibility has been thought up already but it would sure be fascinating.

He seems to react based on his mood, when his sister left his mood went really down, also some of his responses and actions seems to be something he learns in some way, he developed some kind of routine, like crossing his diary entries and some other details shown in the documentary...

@@c_urrutia I have little to no knowledge about this but because of his situation, does it make emotions more heightened, as a result? Like, his wife or his kids leaving for the day, while something that would be not much of an issue with most people, it would be like some big situation? I have no clue and only basing it off of similar feelings I had while high on weed.

@@JLCL01 Now you're thinking we make him do a crap ton of coke an see the results.

His explosive episodes make so much sense at the beginning though. He was scared cause he had no idea why he was in that place. Then secondly his wife was trying to constantly make him remember what he wrote on that diary, and he was so frustrated because he genuinely had forgotten. No wonder this man was like that. I sympathize

He had outbursts because he was confused and desperate, the trauma of being completely self-aware yet having no capacity to access any actual contextual memory or form new ones. The name of the first documentary was a truly an accurate description for it, "prisoner of consciousness". He is conscious of his own reality, yet has no ability to recall this reality, it's like being stuck in a psychological paradox. However, through time his subconsious memory has learnt and gotten used to this illness. Just like every organic lifeform evolves and learns through repeated patterns and habit, his mind has adapted to his new reality on a subconscious level even though he himself can't think that or remember it

The closest thing to a Boltzmann brain.

It's not not having seen anyone that his brain has to rationalize, I imagine it's more... how he ended up wherever he is. Standing in a church, sitting on sofa drinking tea, going on a stroll with Deborah, sitting in the car. Wherever he happens to be that is the first moment of consciousness he has, and he has very little time to make sense of any of it, but his automatic physiological responses seem to take care of continuing his behaviour. It is like he is mostly on autopilot. A great many times he'll have woken up to find himself on the toilet, thinking, well what a fine time to come out of a coma! It is horrifying, but it does provide crucial insight into how the brain works, and if we were smart we would use it to try to cure these affections.

This is a really good explanation!!!

@@rosieglows It's terrible, he doesn't "rationalize", he literally REALIZES that it's the first person he has ever seen, because for his consciousness it IS. Different parts of the brain have different type of memory's.

@@daikucoffee5316 Seems more like the opposite to a Boltzmann brain. A boltzmann brain arises spontaneously and has memories, whereas Clive's brain came about through natural reproduction and does not have memory

Good heavens!

He's so charming ❤️

I found that moment rather sad... millions of people know him, and he doesn't know anyone at all. Everybody he sees is always a stranger.

@@marwaizem7050 What would that change ?

Man, I gotta start dressing sharp.

I'm actually proud of wearing jogging pants, etc. But still the man's got beautiful clothes

he’s serving designer and luxury

@@3-methylindole730 At home it's fine. Even outside it's mostly okay I guess. But once in a while, you wanna look good.

Still a better memory than Joe Biden

Incredibly beautiful, that's just something right out of a book.

What does it 0 in tennis mean?

RainCityResident206 if you have a score of 0 in tennis, it is called "love" (instead of zero)

Spectrumpicture actually means a tie score

Scoring a "love" at tennis is worth 0.

From his point of view, he's never seen his wife since he became ill. That's why when he talks to her he begs her to come visit him soon. It's so brutal.

Was lowkey tearing up hearing him like that. I can't even begin to imagine how hard it was for him to live for the last 20 years.

@@workingpeon9316 It's a repetitive cycle of the same. Only emotions come and go.

Just had the part come up when I read this

My grandmother with dementia used to leave similar messages to my mom

That's for sure. Most people would have given up on him and left him alone like that.

And even if I got left after something like this happened to me I couldn't blame them. I mean just watching this brought me to tears multiple times, I couldn't imagine the emotional stress I would cause someone to endure that loved me like that. She's an actual angel. But only a slight fraction of the pain she felt I was able to feel and even that was monumental.

@@nploda1408 She tried to give up on him but she couldn't do it. Her love for him is too strong.

@@Valvex_ what part of she lives 40 miles away do you not understand?

One of the best quotes of the film. Truly the definition of love