that is/was stored inside a person’s head when they get dementia and don’t even know their own children anymore?
My daughter and family just made a trip to see her FIL. Her husband’s sister was there with her family, too. Their dad did not even know them. He couldn’t figure out why these people he didn’t know were in his house. Sometimes he does not even know his own wife who has been with him every day for many years. She writes a note to him every morning,telling him her name, that she is his wife and that she loves him.
My own FIL has hallucinations that he swears are real. The other night he kept waking up saying that his bed was wet. It wasn’t wet at all, but he was convinced that it was. This went on all night..The next morning he was still trying to convince us that it was wet and that the oxygen machine must’ve dried it out.
The mind can do weird things. Sometimes it is good or real information, and sometimes not. Sometimes it seems that information is gone or lost, and sometimes people believe things that just aren’t true and never even happened. How does one deal with “information” that isn’t even true or real?