Quote Originally Posted by mrToad View Post
i don't know about you, but i've learned everything we ever experience is retained in memory. it is the act of recollection that we are weak at.
Cognitive psychologists would insist otherwise.

Unfortunately, our memories do not work like filing cabinets in which we store and retrieve intact memories. In fact, memory is surprisingly unreliable and even highly malleable. Some things never successfully make it into memory. Some make it in for a time but simply disappear. Also, we tend to reconstruct memories as we retrieve them.