Originally Posted by
Neversoft
I studied memory and Freud for a time at university, and we touched upon something called screen memories, which are essentially minuscule fragments of memory which mask a trauma or emotional event. It's all theoretical, but I have a couple of remote memories like that, which I sometimes ponder the true significance of. There are two from my childhood, when I was four or younger; one I remember my parents arguing, and another I remember being sick on a rug. I couldn't even begin to describe them, because they're so remote, and they exist in my mind more as a sense or a feeling in ways. I can't recall any details — they are just tiny snippets of a fraction of a moment in my mind.