What you are saying does make sense. I didn't take it sarcastically. I guess it's just something I didn't realize. Perhaps I should not think of myself as stupid, at least for things that I do when I don't know it but seem to do it when I am gone. That may be easier said than done.

With it being a memory piece and playing out a memory, how do those memory pieces seem to do what is needed today, so many years later? For example, the action of the washing might have been something that piece learned then, but today's washing machines may be more hi-tech. Would they just learn to figure it out based on what they know about washing machines from when they learned it? And what about the other variables that come into play into the today situation that did not happen at that time. Does that memory piece know how to handle new situations that come up?

Interesting about the foreign languages. I apparently was fluent in a couple. I have knowledge that I did it but no memory of learning it. I can maybe say one or two phrases in those languages. Can the memory piece that holds that still speak fluently? When/if that memory is figured out, or the trigger, or whatever it takes, will I then be able to speak those languages fluently or would I need to relearn those languages? It is rather embarrassing when someone who knows I supposedly know them asks me to say this or that and I stand there feeling very stupid, making up all sorts of excuses as to why I cannot speak a language that I spoke in the not so distant past.

I understand about being yelled at for things I did and have no memory of. It still happens now, as an adult. And it is still the most uncomfortable feeling. I want to say no, it wasn't me, but now I know, perhaps it was. Maybe I did do that, I'm so sorry. I have learned to tap dance well in that area.

Kudos for learning how to draw. Do you have problems with not having pictures in your mind to draw? I like to draw (I'm not good at it, but I enjoy it) but I can only draw reality. I have to see what I am drawing while I am drawing it. I am not able to make up things on paper from my head. It is almost as if everything inside there is totally blocked. But I have found pictures done that look more like drawn from "memory" I guess. Does that make sense and is that common?

This is a great thread. Thanks for starting it!