What are the things you were certain you have forgotten and will never remember yet a few seconds later your brain spits out the right info?

Asked by mazingerz88 (29202

) May 24th, 2019 from iPhone

For example names of people and places in the past that you were sure there’s no way you’ll recall and yet your brain does!

Earlier a friend asked me the name of Tom Cruise’s leading lady in the film The Firm and could have sworn I have no idea whatsoever. Not even a wild guess. Though I’ve seen her in maybe two other films I never bothered to remember her name.

For sure I read the name long ago, otherwise how else would I blurt out Jeanne Triplehorn a few seconds after I said there’s no chance I would know?

Apparently my brain did.

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As I have gotten older, this kind of thing is not at all unusual. The strangest thing is when the memory does not come soon after but later in the day when I am not even trying to recall it.

Here is the latest example. I was thinking of old television shows. I got stuck on the name of the show, The Facts of Life. I was never much of a fan. It was an okay show, but geared more towards women. I just could not think of the show’s name or the names of the actors or the names of their characters. All of a sudden I recalled that one of the people on the show was Nancy McKeon. Where that name came from I could not tell you. I did a Web search for McKeon and found the name of the show.

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