Imagine your brain is like a camera that takes pictures of everything you do. When you're little, it takes so many pictures, the photos get all mixed up and blurry over time. But when you grow up, the camera doesn't take as many pictures, or maybe it just forgets to store them properly, and that's why you can’t remember most of your childhood like you think you should.
Examples
- A child sees a rainbow every day, but when they're older, they forget it was there all the time.
- You remember your best friend from school, but not much about playing together in kindergarten.
- Your first birthday party is a blur, you just know it was fun.
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See also
- What is Memory retrieval?
- What are memory systems?
- Why Can't We Remember Our First Few Years of Life?
- Why Do We Have Different Kinds of Memory?
- Why Can't You Remember Your Phone Number Anymore?