Folks,
Our mind is a moth eaten spider’s web! Think about it for a moment. When we contemplate within ourselves… digging deep into our past… connecting the dots to go back to our childhood we often end up in a deep abyss… a bottomless hole that perhaps never existed for us!?
Have you ever wondered about this? I have! This morning I thought I would go back into my childhood, try and remember where I was on Vijayadashimi day, 50 years back?
You know what… I ended up in a milling crowd trying to figure out how to get back to the road where everyone was pushing and shoving to see the king on an elephant that was marching majestically in a procession.
Then it happened. I could see myself riding on the elephant sitting ceremoniously in a golden huda and the crowd that was clapping all around me was saying maharaj ki jai! Has this ever happened to you?

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Not even in a dream, I have seen myself riding an elephant. I write every often, even still I am writing about my childhood. So far many memories of the day that particular incident happened is crystal clear to me. The scientist haven’t been able to unravel the mysteries if how data is stored in the brain, but it is amazing indeed.
Psychologists say sudden ‘memory pops’ are usually, ‘episodic memories’ that get stored away (not sure in which part of brain,) during development of memory cells. Children can remember recurring events which become more elaborate with age. As Children we stored away memories of familiar events, unique events (autobiographical memory) Example can be: ‘You’re walking down the street, just like any other day,when suddenly a ‘memory pops’ into your head from years ago. It’s about a person you haven’t thought of for years, it could be face of childhood friend with whom you lost touch after say the secondary school years because of one or more reasons like- ‘his parents got transfered to a different town’ or he/she got admitted to a better school far away… but his/her face remained in your memory because you were close friends, shared notes or lunch brought from home etc.