Your brain is like a drawer full of things. When you first learned your phone number, it was like putting a new toy in the drawer, you remembered it easily. But now that you use your phone all day long for messages, games, and videos, your brain thinks those are more important. So it pushes the phone number to the back of the drawer, and you can’t find it when you need it.
Examples
- Your brain pushes your phone number to the back of the drawer when it’s full of new toys.
- You used to know your number like you knew your best friend's name, now you have to look it up.
- When you're scrolling through TikTok, your brain forgets about remembering anything else.
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See also
- Why Can't We Remember Our First Few Years of Life?
- Why Do We Have Different Kinds of Memory?
- Why Can't We Remember Our Childhoods?
- How does memory retrieval work in the brain?
- How Does Music Influence Memory?