We're filled with all sorts of facts about things that have happened in our lives, and there's no seeming end to it.

Until now, it's been assumed that people with high capacity visual working memory had greater storage, but actually it's about the bouncer -- a neural mechanism that controls what information gets into awareness.

That may play a role in creativity and imagination.

What we're able to show is that it's possible the storage space (of all people) is more or less about the same. The difference is not how many things you can hold in (short-term) memory at the same time, but how efficient you are at keeping irrelevant things out.

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.