: How do we forget something easily even if we try to remember it as hard as we can, but the same thing comes to our mind when we are not even thinking about it?

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: How do we forget something easily even if we try to remember it as hard as we can, but the same thing comes to our mind when we are not even thinking about it?

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It’s presque vu or tip of the tongue phenomenon. When you’re trying really hard to remember one thing your brain starts to sift through all the information you have stored and blocks them off trying to locate the piece of information you’re looking for. But in doing so it inadvertently blocks out the very thing you’re trying to remember. So after a while, when you’ve stopped thinking about it, it suddenly occurs to you.