More than 20 years ago, as part of the development of the Reminiscence Functions Scale (RFS: Webster, 1993) I asked participants in a pilot project to list reasons for their reminiscing.
The consequences and challenges for both reminiscence research and clinical practise are briefly addressed and future explorations are suggested. This paper describes, and briefly discusses, how reminiscing and imagining our future share many properties in common, including the length of their temporal extension, how they are cognitively constructed, and their shared underlying neuro-anatomical pathways. Conversely, imagining our future can frequently stimulate reminiscence. Although reminiscence, by definition, involves recalling episodic memories from one's personal past, this process often triggers thoughts of the future.
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