maybe its muscle memory, meaning his twitch skillz get honed in with time and therefore seem improve.

like how a cop can cock teh hammer on his service revolver by instinct during a stop without thinking it after years of target practise.

Something seems to have sunk in in the years he’s been like this, in the first video where he’s older he seems to be aware that it’s been going on for a long time - the complaint he makes about never having seen a single doctor for instance. Some people with this kind of amnesia can form memories slowly, and without being aware that they form them (Like they get better at playing tetris, even if they don’t remember having played tetris ever)

And all this from a goddamn cold sore infection O_o

Made me think though. What if he constantly had a visual reminder of his condition (”Amnesia: You only remember the last 7-30 seconds”)? As far as I understood things, he felt as if he had been unconscious for a year or so, not as if he just couldn’t remember things. If he was always reminded of his amnesia, would he be able to change in some way? Perhaps if he wore glasses with a futuristic computer display it could keep him up to date on a small number of facts, and perhaps update those facts based on stimuli and/or signals, such as in which room his wife is, and why he has to wear those display glasses, and other such current things.

Or would that cause him to constantly spend his time thinking about his condition? I could see how that would cause a train of thoughts that would always have to go back and forth, since once he’d found an answer, he’d have to go back and ask the question again. And I suppose that if he always knew where his wife was, he’d always go to that place, since he hadn’t seen her in a year. Unless the display told him how much actual time had passed since he last saw her, in which case he might perhaps be able to restrain himself.