thorn bush....

Have you noticed how when you are at a particular place, you recall all that happened there. Like when you visit a place from you past, an old home, a vacation spot, you school or college…the moment you are there, you remember everything (worth remembering at least) that happened there. You remember incidents, people and artefacts. You remember where the light switch is, where the dog breathe its last, where she sat and gave you that gift…

Now think the other way round, how difficult it is to remember where you saw a person, or where an incident happened. Have you every asked yourself  'where have I met this person?'. Or I have seen this, but don't remember where. Like when ur mum says tells you 'I found a lizard baby near the kitchen light switch' and it takes you forever to figure out where that was. And even to do that you have to actually imagine the kitchen and navigate your way to the light switch.

Same goes for movies…if someone tell you the name of a movie, you immediately remember everything about the movie, who starred in it, what the story was, particular dialogues, movie reviews, how it fared and so on. But if someone ever remembering the name of a movie from a particular dialogue, or actor is so difficult. Maybe that’s why dumb charades is such an interesting game.

So why does this happen. Well I have a theory. Our brains bunches stuff together and put a master tag to each bunch. And this tag is either the name of a place, or the name of a movie or anything of that sort. So if you know the name of the bunch, you know everything inside the bunch. The names are unique, but things inside the bunch may or may not be shared between bunches. Like an actor might have acted in many other movies.

And maybe that is why its difficult to guess the name of the bunch from one or more ingredients of that bunch. Its difficult to traverse up, simply because each ingredient might refer to multiple bunches.

Think of these bunches as thron bushes, where the top most tag is actually the root, so place is at the root of everything, and it gives rise to so many branches…each branch specifying some memory. And these memories intersect, and share common 'thorns' so as to speak.

Just a theory…now sure how it will be useful ever, but will flesh it out more, later…