LOL happens to me too. where can you find things of days gone by? - thrift shops, good will, st vincent du paul, antique shops.

what were they thinking.. not LOL when I am in my memory pieces I am acting out that memory content . if the memory content is wearing or buying that type of clothing thats what I end up buying while dissociated.

I used to throw it all out but then decided to use it to my advantage by matching the clothes, music and so on to the drawings, journal entries and year books, family photos you name it.

By doing that I got a good idea of what age I was when this or that piece of memory happened and so on. Its amazing how much a person can learn about their self just by following the clues they leave behind from their dissociating eppisodes.