My partner and I were driving along today when my partner remarked that the man in the car we had just passed looked like one of the men in the 118 118 advert. I hadn't noticed this at the time, but I ran back the video in my mind and noticed that, sure enough, he had.
This struck me as a marvellous thing.
I hadn't noticed the man at all, but when asked to recall him, I could.
Something I hadn't remembered had lodged in my mind and being asked about it immediately, I was able to bring it into my conscious awareness.
Research shows that in reality though, after a period of time our memories aren't actually reliable or accurate at all.
Our brains can't hold all of our memories complete, there would simply be too much information
