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I'm obscenely young, but have you ever not remembered something, and then stopped thinking about it, and a day or two later the memory hit you like a train out

I'm obscenely young, but have you ever not remembered something, and then stopped thinking about it, and a day or two later the memory hit you like a train out of nowhere? That's happened twice to me, and it's as if the brain spawned a search daemon that worked in the background and successfully returned (along with the context of the query) later. uwu Das cwazy... Also there's no way computer analogies can't flawlessly capture neurology.

perl4ever 7y ago
I recently lost something I bought, thought I'd accidentally thrown it away, and a day or two later found it in the refrigerator (it wasn't edible).
dredds 7y ago
It's a good analogy and with a few variants. As you said, there's the one where conscious and unconscious feel at odds with each other and can't seem to run the same search at the same time. One workaround is being close to remembering a name and counting through the alphabet until you hesitate on a letter then it'll just pop to the surface. It works well i think because we're visualizing the person while discounting false leads. (left-brain/right-brain bridge)