By Nous

                          May 27, 2003

When you're young, you remember things that never happen.  Generally, 
as you grow older, this phenomenon occurs less and less.  Perhaps there
is a segment of the brain that stores "false" memories, and as you grow
older, your memory expands and terminates this area, or spills over
into this area making it an area of "true" memories.  

Another theory is that maybe you begin your life with memories few and
far between, creating "craters" or holes in your memory where "false"
memories may reside.  As you grow, you make more memories, eventually
sealing up these holes, since your memory becomes firm and packed,  
like the change from a gas state to a solid.

The point is this.  What are those "false" memories you're losing, and 
are they not equally important to the human experience?  Example:

The process of listening to music is not only acknowledging the notes
that you can hear, but the notes that you can't hear as well.  These
non-notes are vital in pieces of music.  You listen to the notes not
played, and your mind puts them together, intensifying the musical 
experience.  A silent opera.

And what of these non-memories?  Could they not be pieced together in
one's mind to create a view a life other than your own?

But you don't necessarily create it, and its not necessarily secret.

Let's say there is a piece of cake and you cut a piece off.  Now
imagine the cake represents memory and the seperation represents birth.
But the cake not only represents your memory, but everyone else's.
Before time, we may all have been connected by intertwining memories, 
perhaps because we live together before time, in the same world, at the 
same time, all at once, all together.  The memory of the collective.

All those "false" memories are just memories of what we once were.  But
not only that.  They are memories of what others once were as well, 
since, going back far enough, we all seperate from the same Memory at
birth.