: 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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The memory you are trying to access is hard to find, your brain is like a filing system so if your filing system is not in order (tiredness etc) or you are trying to find a file buried deep somewhere it takes time to find. Your brain runs a search for the memory, the search continues to run even though you aren’t thinking about it, when your brain finds it you will remember.