No idea. I’ve been collecting all kind of stuff since being a 5 y.o. kid. Both collecting and Pokémon are such a big parts of my life, so I honestly wouldn’t even know if I’d still be ‘me’ if all the Pokémon and collecting related memories are gone.
It also would be very weird coming home to multiple collections, like minerals/fossils; twisty puzzles; Yu-Gi-Oh cards; and most noticeably my many Pokémon products scattered around my work/hobby room, all gone from my memory.
It’s a really hard thing to grasp and hypothetically answer, since I honestly wouldn’t even know what to think.
Not to mention the additional confusion of having gaps in your memory in general will also be a huge impact on yourself as a person I’d imagine.
Probably, although maybe not Pokémon in particular. But collecting in general is likely part of my DNA, considering how much I’ve done it in my life, haha.
But again, very hard to answer if all those memories are completely gone. Especially since starting collecting as a kid and starting collecting as an adult are two different things.
Also hard to say. Since I do come home to a house full of multiple collections, my interest would likely be going first to those. Starting by researching what they are and such.
Because of that it would be difficult to look for something else to collect.
If, hypothetically, all the collections themselves would be gone alongside my memories, then I’d likely be collecting something completely different down the line. Perhaps.
Ugh, although I have a lively imagination, thinking about something as abstract as this kinda gives me a headache, haha.
At first keep them, hoping a cure could be found for my memory loss. From the sizes of the collections, I would know it was a big part of my life, so because of that it also wouldn’t feel right to sell anything without trying absolutely everything I can to get my memory back.
But after a few years without finding any cure for the memory loss, no doubt in the mean time already researching a bit about all the collections and realizing how much money especially the Pokémon card collection is worth, and no doubt finding other interests over time, I’d likely try to sell a lot of it to finance other aspects in life.
Definitely. If I can’t remember anything and they remember all of it (from their perspective), I defintely would have asked them a lot about it. Who wouldn’t?
Sure, there would be numerous of things my family and friends wouldn’t know, but then I’d at least know:
- I’d have ‘the largest Pikachu collection in the world’ (which wouldn’t be true, since I’m 3rd place rn afaik, but I know some of my family members and friends would have remembered it like that
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- I absolutely loved Pokémon from the day it was released and have collected it as a kid and watched the cartoon/anime a lot.
- I got my house by selling a bunch of Pokémon cards (I’m kinda curious how I’d remember this aspect myself - I’d likely remember having the money on the bank from a certain moment in time, but not how it got there. Then again, I’d have thousands upon thousands of gaps in my memory, so I guess that specific gap among the many others wouldn’t surprise me that much, tbf.)
- I’d know I was able to solve a Rubik’s Cube before, but now not anymore.
Also, since I use the username ‘Quuador’ for social media and as game names that I’d partially would remember (e.g. YouTube and Overwatch mostly. Reddit, Facebook, and Instagram likely not, since I almost exclusively use it for Pokémon/Yu-Gi-Oh) and it’s very unique, I’d likely google for it and would come across all my posts here on E4, on reddit, on Instagram, on the TwistyPuzzles Forum, etc. and would probably spend hours upon hours reading what my past self has written.
Greetz,
Quuador
