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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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.

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.

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

😂😂😂

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

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.

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......

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?

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.

Bro was really guessing "head of the British Empire"

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?

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

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

I cant think of any other person or story about a person who is more loyal, loving and wonderful than his wife Debra. What an absolute angel she is indeed.

there’s a reason she looks so amazing, she looks so similar to her wedding pictures. her joy and happiness is just radiating from her

❤

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

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

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

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.

@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 UKposts 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

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

​@@PaceMaker76564proven 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I'm amazed she persevered for 9 years tbh

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

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 .

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Somehow he could tell that it has been years huh

@@Youuuuuu his soul must have just FELT like it was years

@Don Makaveli Why did it strike u as funny? Just curious?

what part of 7 seconds memory did you not understand? 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 seconds and everything after that is "infinity".

@@kenjidev576 there was a 45 second moment

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I can’t find it pin it

@@hellohellohello517 5.50

At what minute

@@footballknowledge07 16:25

me too.

Heartbreaking

And the way he talks about her "I dont care how late it is come to me midnight or 1oclock i dont mind i just love you more then anything please come to me" welp ive cried

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

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..?

If he hasnt heard a note it's no torture to him since he doesnt know what it feels like to hear it. But it's a miracle when he hears a sound of the piano, must feel nice when finding music all over again.

But this documentary is not about music per se yet if you cannot hear his playing well , if it IS him playing - good on him and God bless his wife . He may forget who she is but SHE never forgot who he is . When my husband Paul who passed in 2015 after a lengthy illness and I NEVER left him for one day over 7 years - not for a day ... once when Paul woke up from a 3 month coma , he didn't know that I was his wife but he knew that he could trust me to help him live . Prior to Paul's waking up , a few nurses asked why I was doing what I did , sleeping in a chair next to him , minding for him and my response : " Paul may not remember who I am but I know who he is . " Love never dies .

@Mandragora Ouroboros It's his procedural memory, a memory of automatic actions that don't need to go through conscience to be executed. Like riding a bike, for example. Since he was a musician, playing piano is a mechanic automatic process he's learned and stored in his procedural memory, but since he can't accumulate more than 7 seconds of information at a time and it goes away all the time, he doesn't remember playing the piano at all since the start of his problem.

Ikrrr! I cannot tell what it is, maybe his personality has changed slightly with time, making him more accepting of whatever happens. Or he's simply that intelligent, his brain o'clock resets and his first thought is "guess I have amnesia"

it's like he knows but can't remember it's really hard to understand

Well

Yeah

Well i guess it became just such a big thing in life that it became a part of him without the need to remember it. Like you dont have to think about your own name, or gender or something that is a part of you since "forever".

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

Someone trying to act smart with big words

Jasmine Casserly: Well he used them correctly, so that counts for something right?

Same. That must be one of the worst existences anyone should have to endure. Can't imagine it.

Neither can he

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.

I think regrettably he brought this on himself by overworking his brain, he had a ceazure. I have known of this before.

Galka Power I thought it was sad that his sister even QUESTIONED whether her brother should have survived or not , life is a prescious gift and I'm sure he's still glad he is alive.

oh, val, no he didn't. you have never seen this before. a single doctor hasn't seen this before. get outta town!!

Val O'Brien seizure*

He is living in a subtle nightmare from which he never wakes up

I imagine that's why she could not find anyone else when she went looking. Clive is truly irreplaceable.

Brilliant of course, musical genius even.

@@stephaniefisher2241 That's so beautifully written.

Well, he seems extremely Intelligent. I couldn't give such good Answers in so short Time. Heck, I'd need more then 7 Seconds to give half as good Answers. By that point he would have allready forgotten what we were talking about. One of his Sons said he was a Genius before the Virus, and I'm certain that wasn't an exaggeration. He had a razor sharp Mind, was very educated and brilliant I'm sure. At least his musical Genius is still there. He's fantastic on the Piano. Music is absolutely fascinating anyway. Many Seniors suffer from Alzheimers. In the worst State of the Desease, you are basically a walking Potato. No Memory, no Mind. But somehow many of them are still able to play Music. Many are as great as ever on their Instrument, altough they are otherwise not even able to speak. That, or those who didn't play Music will often react very, very emotional towards their favorite Songs.

@@sagichdirdochnicht4653 Yeah that's fascinating, music is so powerful. One day we might be able to explain that

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

He was.

No, he is. He just doesn't have the ability to show it.

Vasto Lorde just think how fascinating he would be had he not lost his memory.

Vasto Lorde true at the beginning he seemed slow but as the documentary went on he seemed smart.

'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.

What would you say the differences are?

@@lextherapy8208 in my 8 years experience, I'd say he's aware that he has missing memory. He seems to except the fact. Alzheimer's patients, in my experience, have no understanding of their disease. (I had one client who could be told they had it, and she could accept it, but this knowledge wouldn't last). Alzheimer's patients tend to be "stuck" in a period in life. My 86 yo client was convinced we were in college together. (I was in my late 30's). I'm sure there are more examples, but that's all I have right now.

'Amazing' how?

@@zoeyrochellezhombie829 why are you so bothered by every comment with the word “amazing” in it

@@Take-A-Ride People can say the word "amazing" without using it in the tone that it's a giddy wonderous amazing. You can use the word "amazing" while also talking about something extremely depressing. Op means just that, it's incredible that he is aware, is that a happy good thing? No, but is it almost insane that he can? Yes.

right ;((

You're not alone.

And this feels like he's interviewing in heaven, 42:38

Beautiful perspective

Yes, I am still sobbing. This is what love is.

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 ?

Exactly

Love transcends memory. That what I thought watching this.

Running up that hill

Amen!!! That's EXACTLY what I also got from watching this! He never forgot his music and he knows how to call his wife!

Could’ve been anything, just happened to be his wife and music that he kept

I heard that but i didn't understand. What does that mean?

a score of 0 in tennis is called "love"

subtitles said “zero intentness and everything in life” ?

That is the part that got me too.

@@EchoRoss cause subtitles are AI trying to decipher the words. When things arent clearly spoken on the audio, the subtitles messes up

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

It's amazing that he recalls almost nothing but he loves her so very much ;_;

That part made me cry my eyes out.

I couldn’t hold it together after that part.... pfffff, what an amazing and sad story.

That part got me too.

how can you love someone when you dont even know the moments together?