Forgetting is Important

I was thinking about Wendy's problem in the middle of the script where she begins to forget her mother's memories. I started doing research on forgetting, and theories show that it's just as important as remembering for our brains.

What would life be like if we didn't forget? There a book called "The Woman Who Can't Forget," and her brian couldn't handle all of the information. She would constantly get headaches. She would always be stressed out. The mind creates room by storing information in long term memory and losing information that isn't relevant over time.

These are the youtube videos I found on the subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbiTuDSHa2M and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbiTuDSHa2M. The second youtube video uses a quote, "The strength of your mind dictates the size of your reality." The quote refers to the movie, Momento.

As I've written before, most of our memories are recalled by remembering the process in which we stored these memories into our brains. (That's confusing, let me try again.) If I'm taking a test and I'm trying to remember what I studied, I first remember that I was sitting at my desk, searching through my book, looking up a certain passage, and finally I remember what was inside the book. Through our experiences, we can remember information. WELL, since Wendy was given this information and she didn't actually learn it or experience it HERSELF, then I believe it's plausible for her to forget the memories of her mother and the information attached to those memories because they aren't hers. As Wendy goes through her own experiences, her mind has to create room, and so the more she learns through her own eyes, the less she remembers about her mother. (Now I have an explanation, though it's probably not the best one.)