I was thinking how sometimes when you’re looking for something and eventually find it, you then remember leaving there.
So my question is, why do we forget certain stuff. Specially since certain triggers will bring those memories back meaning they never actually left our memory.
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A memory is something that set off multiple parts of the brain. Take someone playing a Base in front of a crowd for the first time. That memory is made up of the five senses, what they could see from the stage, what they heard as they strummed the instrument, how the strings felt under their fingers, how hot the lights where, and their nervousness of the moment. All that together is a memory. The more senses that are trigged during the memory, or a memory with a high emotional tag are the ones that get saved.
The less senses involved the harder it is to pull that memory back.
While you build memories all the time, in your late ages you will find most of your memories will be around your teen through early 20s then slowly tapering off.
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