Why do (sometimes) seemingly unimportant moments really stick as detailed memories, and some seemingly very important moments are hard to recall?

Question

At times, apparently mundane memories are really easy to recall, and moments you think ‘I want to remember this in detail, even gonna do an eye-camera pan of the scene’ don’t come back that easy. Why?

In: Biology

Answer 1

When I was around fourteen years old , about thirty five years ago, I had this same question. As an experiment I made a deliberate aren’t to create a mundane memory. At the moment I was taking out the garbage, carrying the bin down out sloped driveway on a fall day. I guess it didn’t work.