After a long ride, I sometimes sit in our community’s hot tub and reflect on the ride. I start by reflecting on the end of the ride, then I move incrementally backwards in time to the beginning of the ride. After a long ride, the reflection can take 20 minutes. It’s amazing the amount of detail I can recall using this method. What’s also interesting is how certain sections of a ride become lost to my memory. For example, I couldn’t remember crossing a certain street the other day. I knew I crossed it, because I could remember what happened before and after. I figure crossing the street was just too easy, there were no cars around, my mind was thinking of other things at the time…and therefore I couldn’t access the memory.
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