Energetic realm? Physical realm? Emotional or mental realm? Are they sent straight to consciousness somehow? What do you guys think? If they were stored in only the physical realm then how would the entities we perceive be getting into our synapses? Wouldn't they need some observable physical dimension? How could any trip occur outside your physical mind if you remember it with your physical memories?

If it was the mental realm then where is the mental realm exactly somewhere in between? And how about the energetic? Are memories just layers of energy coated over the energy field of our mind like layers of a gobstopper candy?

Any thoughts on this? The answer to this question may help clarify where these realms actually are and what these entities are made out of.

Memories I believe are a biochemical storage that allows us to recall events past while existing in linear time. As to what lies beyond three-space one-time, I have no idea.

Memories seem both linear and non. For instance, spontaneous free recall memory to me feels like a non-linear occurrence. Especially during a psychedelic state.. rendering it more intuitive than that over a non or linear memory. There's definitely a flow of energy to memory as it is essential to sustain memory formation. Where these are stored and constantly being added I can only imagine an almost infinite library of knowledge, experience and wisdom! Which is presently unfolding in our day to day existence. Memories are like cycles, constantly changing, modifying, connecting and storing. The entities may or may not touch these areas of the mind.. unless it is needed to bring forth vital information. Perhaps from past lives? I really don't know!

One thing that I find to be quite fascinating is memory in dreams. It's amazing to be thrown into a dream and have a completely populated, yet fabricated, memory of events leading up the current situation. A simple example: I suddenly find myself on a bus, a stranger asks me for a cigarette and I remember that the pack in my pocket has one left. I vividly remember the previous week or smoking the cigarettes, and remember earlier in the morning seeing the pack have only a single one left. Except, none of that actually happened, the dream just started there on the bus.

I'm not sure, but I find the Method of Loci a fascinating memory/serial recall technique in regard to these questions.
http://www.sciencedirect...e/pii/S000169181200145X
http://cpx.sagepub.com/c...167702612468111.abstract

The limbic region of your brain is generally thought to be where memories are stored (alongside trauma, scents/smells and emotions - all woven together and inseparable from the memories).

Maybe there is also an energetic memory or something like that, or maybe another layer of memory is stored in DNA....

This is an interesting theory: https://en.wikipedia.org.../Holonomic_brain_theory



How do you know for sure none of it "actually" happened? In light of the "Many Worlds" interpretation of quantum physics, and the idea of a Multiverse that people have experienced on Salvia and DMT, maybe those are actual memories of alternate realities/dimensions that did happen/are happening/will happen in the present moment, non-dual/non-linear space-time...



How about "all of the above"?

But how is the transfer from experience to biochemical storage made, is experience also just biochemical?

How biochemical processes can translate to consciousness? I have no idea. I'm not sure it is knowable, maybe psychedelics can give us temporary perspective to stand back out of the biological and take a look in, but then we go back and somehow it's back to flesh.

This is what I remember from neuroscience. The hippocampus plays a major role in memory. However, there was a patient called Henry Molaison. He had a temporal lobectomy where 2/3s of his hippocampus was removed. After the surgery, he could not form new memories. His old memories were still intact.

The brain is immensely complex. Each neuron can have up to 10000 synaptic connections to other neurons. That means there are more synapses in the brain than there are stars in our galaxy. With this overwhelming amount of complexity, it's no wonder we can do things like remember stuff and communicate complex ideas with people.

All we know is the mechanism. As to why it occurs in the first place, or what's causing it, that's a whole different playground. We don't even know enough about the mechanisms to gain a full picture of what's going on. Our scientific thinking is purely reductionist, reducing things to it's core components. The thing with reductionism is that if you know the absolute beginning state, you can predict the future state. We don't even fully understand the beginning state.

The brain, eh? An amazing thing, and many people don't even use it.