{"id":6539,"date":"2026-02-16T23:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sinbidays.com\/if-i-forget-you-every-night-could-i-still-love-you-a-story-of-anterograde-amnesia\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:23:19","slug":"anterograde-amnesia-love-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinbidays.com\/en\/anterograde-amnesia-love-story\/","title":{"rendered":"If I forget you every night, could I still love you? – A story of anterograde amnesia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“Anterograde amnesia, yet love is still possible”<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Tonight, I watched a movie.<\/h2>\n\n

A movie called ‘Even If This Love Disappears from the World Tonight.’<\/p>\n\n

At first, I just… wanted to clear my head by watching a touching film. Things have been pretty tough lately. <\/p>\n\n

But after watching it, something changed.<\/p>\n\n

My perspective on the world shifted gently.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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The girl who loses her memory every night<\/h2>\n\n

The heroine, ‘Seo-yun,’ suffers from anterograde amnesia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

To be precise, it’s a condition where she forgets everything that happened that day once she goes to sleep<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

So, she writes in a diary every night.<\/p>\n\n

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“This happened today.”“I met this person today.”“I felt this way today.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

The next morning, when she opens her eyes, yesterday is gone. So she reads her diary. To meet yesterday’s self, yesterday’s people, and yesterday’s emotions all over again. <\/p>\n\n

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A strangely uncomfortable moment<\/h2>\n\n
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The movie was beautiful throughout.<\/p>\n\n

Truly.<\/p>\n\n

But one specific scene felt strange.<\/p>\n\n

The scene where they have their first kiss while watching fireworks at night.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

They held hands for the first time, and it led straight to a kiss.<\/p>\n\n

Seo-yun said, “I don’t want to lose my memory.” <\/p>\n\n

A sincere confession because she liked the protagonist, ‘Jae-won,’ so much that she didn’t want to forget him.<\/p>\n\n

But… did they have to kiss?<\/p>\n\n

At that moment, I had this thought.<\/p>\n\n

“Why did it have to be a kiss?”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Is sexual contact necessarily proof of love? Isn’t that just desire? <\/p>\n\n

I tried thinking from a man’s perspective. Is kissing an act of ‘giving’ something to a woman? <\/p>\n\n

But honestly, once you kiss, you start wanting more. And then you want something else after that. <\/p>\n\n

Is love about fulfilling the other person’s desires?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Maybe it’s because I’ve never experienced real love..?<\/p>\n\n

Does real love actually get deeper after physical contact? Without any problems or dissatisfaction? <\/p>\n\n

I’m still not sure about these things.<\/p>\n\n

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Why it was still beautiful<\/h2>\n\n

Jae-won had heart disease, so he avoided exercise. Seo-yun lost her memory every night, returning to the time right after her accident. <\/p>\n\n

Both were people with painful wounds.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

But within that imperfection, they accepted each other and loved anew every single day.<\/p>\n\n

Jae-won found joy in making her happy every day, and Seo-yun remembered him again by reading her diary every day. <\/p>\n\n

“Even without memory, love is still possible.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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What is anterograde amnesia?<\/h2>\n\n
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I looked it up after the movie.<\/p>\n\n

Anterograde Amnesia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

A condition where one cannot form new memories.<\/p>\n\n

Past memories remain, but events after a certain point cannot be remembered.<\/p>\n\n

Causes<\/h3>\n\n
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  • Brain damage (car accidents, trauma)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Hippocampal damage<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Encephalitis, stroke<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Alcoholism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

    Symptoms<\/h3>\n\n
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    • Inability to remember new information<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Forgetting people just met or conversations just had<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Loss of sense of time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

      Like the heroine in the movie, there are cases where memories of the day disappear after sleeping<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

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      What I realized<\/h2>\n