Do memories occupy a physical space in the brain?
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The best way I was taught this is to think of your brain like a field of tall grass. When you create a memory it’s like walking through the field. Your brain makes a pathway to various components that associates the various aspects of the memory (sight sound etc). Every time you remember a memory, it’s like walking through that same path in the grass. If you only experience it once, the path through the grass fades quickly. But the more you “walk it” the more the pathways sticks. Eventually it’s ingrained. However if you stop using the pathway, it eventually fade as well, replaced by a new path. That’s how memory works.
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