X-Message-Number: 17071 Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:56:33 -0700 From: Olaf Henny <> Subject: The Quirks of Memory References: <> This morning I woke up with a silly pre-adolescent ditty churning around in my mind. I have probably heard it only once in a school play. The six years I spent in Germany after I fled from the East were spent in entirely adult company (the fellow students were about as far from pre-adolescence as you can get in your entire life). So it is highly unlikely, that anything has reminded me of that ditty at any time during the last half century. And yet, here it suddenly cropped up, probably triggered by a dream, which I could not remember upon waking. I often have to go to my notes to look up the exact time of tomorrow s appointment, which I only made yesterday. How did that silly thing get into my long term memory in the first place, and what prevented the dendrites or whatever it is, that preserves memory, from re-arranging themselves to attend to new tasks? Best, Olaf Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17071