- It seems I’ve been carrying that memory around in the back of my head for the last two years, but that memory was inaccessible to my conscious self as I had completely forgotten about that dream. I wonder how much junk we’re carrying around in ow memories that we’re unaware of just because it’s not something we know that we remember and that we can recall at-will.
- Something I experienced right now (I’ve just been doing homework) must have triggered that memory/made it accessible to me.
We sometimes think of our memory as an hard drive we can read files from with an index, that’s really not true, our memory resembles Content-Addressible Memory, where the data itself (of at least something similar to) is the key to unlock the data. You recall a piece of memory only when you are epxeriencing something similar. This also explain the “unlocked memories” of things you did in the past you completely forget until you find an object related to it.
The mind is fucking weird.