GoldLeader

Well... You can have a memory that fades away so becomes forgotten, not truly gone but imagine them as lamps and the closer more vivid memories are very bright and those that have become faded are really dim, you could be forgiven for thinking the bulb was not on but it is very very faint. Then someone says something, you have an emotional response and pop! the light flashes, you get a moment of recognition and the lamp dims again.

I use a technique where I search through the alphabet to find names of people I don't remember anymore. Once I put the letter beneath the persons face in my mind, sometimes I have to run through a few times, 97% of the time I remember that person's name.

No such thing as a New Forgotten Memory, but an all but or nearly forgotten memory. A rediscovered memory, perhaps.

Good point.  It's a new (as in new occurrence of)...A Forgotten, but then partially remembered, memory.    (Or maybe I was just trying to be too clever).  Trying to talk about or make jokes on vague memories is really hard since it varies so much from person to person.  What one person barely remembers;  Someone else just bought the box set, or has been watching it on MeTV every Saturday night.  For this one, which I saw on the guide on my DISH, I very vaguely remembered the name.  Looking it up, I actually remembered the logo, but not the characters or the show itself.  It was from 1982 so I could imagine someone turning off Asteroids on their Atari, then seeing this show on NBC...(Maybe not in Britain, but well, you know what I mean

yeah. I understand. There are shows people in my family watched, older siblings, that I thought I knew, like Street Hawk, but when I watched an episode it was completely unknown to me. I sort of knew of the intro, so I probably got sent to bed. Like a British show called 'Help!' I never got past the Beatle's intro music.

I've got a good cluster of dim memories like these that are on the fringes of me knowing but I don't. That's what you get when you have brothers that are 4,5 and more years older than you.

I remember a vinyl album of Buddy Holly my brother had, it had a yellow cover and 20 hits was written on it, with a pair of his glasses as the image. I've been trying to hunt that down for 20 years.

How bout this. I heard about 20 seconds of a song in 1994. It was on the radio. I was taken by the song, and never heard it again.

It stuck in my mind. The other year I found that song, it was Merrie Old England by Roy Bailey an English folk musician. I never gave up on that song and I have the album here.

It's crazy how the mind works and we only use 10% of its capacity.