i was high the other day and was thinking about the way people perceive and remember things and i developed a theory of how memory and perception. ok, so you start off at central known solid memory as a referent and other memories branch off of this like the limbs of a tree. everything you know is perceived as how it relates to a previous memory. ex: i know that the grass is green because i know what the color green looks like. the ideas you remember the best are the ones that are tied to a powerful memory. this is why you can remember events that occur during very memorable times in your life better than you can remember some random event, because they branch off from a very strong memory/emotion.