Like I’ve mentioned before, the brain acts in mysterious ways.
Goes all blank at random, sometimes, urgent moments. The ‘walk in the room and out of it, just to remember what you needed’ is still fine, at times. But what about those moments when you need to remember names of people or that answer you are sure you know. You rake your brain, try to prod it into searching the needed data and coming up with it fast. The incredible speed of the neurons, come on, now is the time. But sadly, that doesn’t come any time soon; and if it does, it’s an aha moment somewhere down the week, of limited joy – ‘I knew it. Just didn’t remember it’.
This gets annoying if you come up with a clever response or a savage comeback, when it’s too late to use it. You get to revel in the great dialogue that could have been, but only in your head.
There are times you suspect if the brain is really on your side; there are even days when you think ‘why are you doing this to me!’. With all that superpower that is credited to the brain, one would think it would know by now, what needs to go in permanent memory and what stays in a flash drive.
But no, that’s not how it works, there may be some important information you are trying to feed into the brain by either determined learning or sure-fire memory techniques, and it ends up in the bottom most, unordered, moldy drawers of your brain.
And then there is the nugatory stuff, for instance, earworms- the catchy but torturous or unnecessary lines of song or jingles that get burnt into the quickest accessible, topmost shelf there is in the maze of your brain. Instantly available, word to word, though you try closing your eyes to forget it. Nope, there is no way you could get rid of it.
