Finished reading: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks 📚

There were some elderly patients that had old, dormant memories suddenly re-emerge due to seizures. Memories they’d long forgotten. They could recall stories and sing songs from when they were young. And just as suddenly the memories were gone again. Locked back into the recesses of their minds.

There were savants that could recall daily life activities on any specified date of their lives.

It made me wonder if the brain is etching everything we experience onto the brain? If so, are we carrying around our own personal time machines in our brains? If we could unlock the brain and reveal what’s inside, could we replay our entire lives?