How is it that you can just blank or forget something you use everyday like for example your locker combination?
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Memory is stored with relationships. Seeing your locker lock triggers the memory location where details about the locker are and you recall the combo. Asking you the combo outside of that context can make it hard to remember because you never access the combo when not at your locker. Its like asking for directions someplace and you can’t give it, but if put into the situation of driving, you could navigate it.
When wanting to remember important things, give it many associations. While memorizing your locker combo, don’t be in front of your locker or at school. Memorize it at home while chewing on a piece of flavored gum or with some aroma around you, staring at a certain picture, some music you like and so on to associate the locker combo with more than just the locker which will occur automatically as you use the locker every day.
I know even now in my late 40s, certain smells will trigger memories from my late teens and twenties suddenly that I had no idea were still there.
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