I have noticed something about when you completely cannot recall a certain event of your life. It's like it never happened. Like you skipped that portion of your life.

Ever had surgery? It's like that. You go into the surgery. You get an IV put in you, and some guy says something to you, and suddenly you wake up in a different room. The surgery took two hours, not that you'd notice, because you were drugged out, therefore you remember none of it, so it's like you skipped ahead.

It makes me wonder...does being so aware because of our knowledge of lucid dreaming and consciousness make us less prone to Alzheimer's disease? This cannot really be determined by a third person perspective. Only an individual can determine whether or not they themselves would get the disease. Why? Because if I was going to get Alzheimer's, I would suddenly be sitting in an old folks home not knowing where I was, or who anyone else was, or even who I am. I would be there at THIS VERY INSTANT (from my perspective). Obviously from any of your perspectives, I would be sitting here typing, and it'd be obvious that I must go through the years up until I get the disease.

But from my perspective, none of this would be happening, because I wouldn't remember it. Fascinating. I'm not even sure where I'm going with this. It's just something I've noticed. You don't really notice. Just like sleep. Unless you remember your dreams, you simply wake up in the morning seemingly the instant you fell asleep. It's like that 8 hours never happened. But if someone sat there and watched you sleep, sure enough 8 hours would go by.

So if you were going to at some point in your life lose your memory completely, you would have already lost it. You would not be reading this, because in your mind it never happened. Isn't that nuts? I thought of that once when I was high, naturally.