Why do you sometimes struggle to recall information (place, face, name, memory), then 20 minutes or a few hours later, it suddenly comes to you. Were you sub-consciously thinking about it that whole time?
In: Biology
I don’t know the actual answer but I can take a guess.
When trying to remember you’re focused on one thing: remembering. You focus on one memory at a time.
Later on, when you’ve stopped focusing you are able to absorb the information around you which can trigger a memory which you then link back to you trying to remember something specifically.
Say your trying to remember a song. You try and try but just can’t remember it.
Later on, you’re watching TV and a commercial comes on and is playing a different song which was in a movie you saw that also had the song you were trying to remember and that song just happened to have the same name as that movie. BOOM! MEMORY!
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