For example, how is it that you can remember some fleeting and unimportant experiences in vivid detail- like a place you visited or a short conversation from years before- but you can study information for a test for hours and hours, and forget it the next day?
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When you’re studying it gets monotonous and your brain gets bored and stops storing every little thing. Fleeting and unimportant experiences may stick around because they were so out of the norm of what happens in your day to day life, especially with the visiting places example. If you go somewhere once or twice then you’ll remember what you did during those times, but go there regularly, multiple times a year then you won’t remember everything.
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