memories.....................

 

The truth is that memory and forgetting are forever entwined. . . .

     Neurobiologists learn a great deal about memory by studying forgetting.  To forget something means we had to have known it at some point, and that's different than never having known it in the first place.  And even when we think we know something, memory is fallible in two different ways.  First, we can lose things in our memory banks, sometimes temporarily, sometimes for a lifetime.  Second, when we do locate and retrieve a memory, it can be fantastically distorted without our realizing it.

     The truth is we have false memories every day, lots of them.  We just don't know it because we're not often challenged.

-Daniel J. Levitin, I Heard There Was a Secret Chord:  Music as Medicine