Yes, I think it’s chunking to compress information. You group similar events together, and only remember a distinct instance if something extraordinary happens (for instance, a spider crawls onto your toothbrush).
From my observation, memories, even of recent events, are not even that linear. They focus primarily on the novel information, and the gaps are connected by either the fungible/chunked memories or the reasoning you were referring to. The upshot is that if you have novel events separated by a lot of mundanity, you may remember them out of sequence (and remember them prioritized by importance or novelty). I find this often when trying to recall my dreams.
Yes, I think it’s chunking to compress information. You group similar events together, and only remember a distinct instance if something extraordinary happens (for instance, a spider crawls onto your toothbrush).
From my observation, memories, even of recent events, are not even that linear. They focus primarily on the novel information, and the gaps are connected by either the fungible/chunked memories or the reasoning you were referring to. The upshot is that if you have novel events separated by a lot of mundanity, you may remember them out of sequence (and remember them prioritized by importance or novelty). I find this often when trying to recall my dreams.