I think you guys got it.

I feel that a 'healthy' person keeps all of their files in one cabinet. They open the drawer and access them , they can look at one file and see the preceding one and the one following. This linear thing.
Like this:


I feel that we keep our files scattered, in whole different compartments. A file in a drawer over here, one down in the cupboard, some lost in the attic...when we look at it, we see only it, in its own context. They are not linear, but rather temporal? (this could very well be neurological but I feel it's more developmental, something went awry during our development stage when we learned to encode memories and then retrieve them.) I think we store them the same way (in files) but we retrieve the memory differently and experience it differently (can't see the file before and after). Like this:


"our colours are random.....they are beautiful enough to remember we need them but they are so bright and take us by surprise?
they come in circles not linear"

I think u're right dubble! This is how I think it really is. I also just have to say, the way you type is very much like a poet, it's a pleasure to read.

Then,
"we compartmentalize more by emotions and our senses. Other's brains automatically detach most memories from the emotions in short order." <<

This is awesome carm, I think you're really onto something here. You nailed it for me. How, then, do we go about making sense of these and integrating them, that's a hard one. lol