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?
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I don’t really know but this is my guess:
When you remember an old memory you don’t remember when it actually happened you remember the last time you remembered it, that’s why things look better and more nostalgic with time you remember the joy you had when it happened and the joy you felt when you last remembered it what makes you think the memory was better than it actually was and it would make you more happy then when you last remembered it and next time you’ll remember it you’ll be happier and happier what makes nostalgia so good. The same thing works with that cringey thing you did 5 years ago. Plus it’s common for the brain to link between memories and emotions so when you’re happy you’ll remember the last time you’ve been happy, when you’re sad you’ll remember when you’ve been sad and you get the idea. So if you’re really bored and there’s absolutely nothing going your brain will be like “hay remember the last time we’ve been bored?” And since you remember the last time you thought on the memory and not the actual memory the memory of “that time we’ve been bored” is much more recent then it actually is which makes a really boring and old memory easy to remember. So when you’ll be bored next year you’ll be able to easily remember the time you’ve been bored 3 years ago (notice how I said bored way too many times and you remembered a time you’ve been bored)
Again I’m not sure in anything I just said so if you bring that in a conversation and make a fool out of yourself it’s your fault
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