You might have noticed a peculiar thing about a certain aspect of your memory.. In case, that is, that you might have gone and spent enough time of your childhood into your grandparents house.
Have you ever wondered how, maybe, those houses seemed and felt way bigger when you were just a toddler, as opposite to when you were a grownup ?
I was once in a part of an academic discussion, and one of the researchers just dropped this notice. “…now, take a moment to consider how the house of our grandmothers seemed way bigger when we were kids!” - I got that hunching over my head, because the statement didn’t felt right.
And I’ll tell you about what kind of image spurred into my mind right there, was that, if a giant (a literal giant, like David and Goliath) indeed were hunched into one of those grandma’s rooms, that would feel pretty tiny to them!
I beg to trust you to show my point here.
One thing the other researcher failed to notice isn’t that or how the rooms felt way bigger during those times because of nostalgia or some error in our memory retrieval facilities (that was sort of the argument she was given). In fact, if you come to think about it thoroughly, it wasn’t the fact you remembered it wrong. You actually remembered it right. The trouble is that now you look at it from the perspective of an adult!
And why do I say that??!
Because when you were a toddler your height was WAY shorter, probaby like twice or thrice what you currently have now. So, in this perspective, the rooms actually during those times were indeed bigger from a matter of pure perspective!
You weren’t as tall, you were actually “tiny” and the feeling that gave you was the actual representation of “you” ( a kid ) into a normal size room, that for adults would feel “meh”, but for someone the age of 4 or 5 would indeed feel different.
Thing is, I didn’t think all this through during the time of the talk we’ve had during those days. I only made myself thing those thoughts after the meeting had arrived to an end, but by that time, the lecturers were already out to lunch and I, a mere undergrad at that time, wouldn’t have much voice into those matters.
So then, this is why I am sharing these with you all, in case anyone ever reads any of these.
Food for thought.