Sublime

Memory loss is only an illusion, caused by a held emotional charge blocking the way between you and old memories. Although the doorway to old memories may be blocked by trauma, if you want to remember, and you are ready, you can remember by allowing these held emotions to express even if you can only allow a little at a time. Forgetting has been a

The act of recall is never neutral, and the emotions prompting the recall will shape the events recalled, mixing memory with desire.

thanks to the power of posterior information. (In a remarkable insight, the nineteenth-century Parisian poet Charles Baudelaire compared our memory to a palimpsest, a type of parchment on which old texts can be erased and new ones written over them.) Memory is more of a self-serving dynamic revision machine: you remember the last time you