Medium Term Memory

I have been thinking on and off today about a new concept for me: Medium Term Memory.

If short term memory is quite short, but can provide significant detail as it includes the entire frame of the experience, and long term memory is like pulling up an old experience upon request, returning to that mindset to a degree, and working with what data remains, then medium Term Memory is a specific hybrid of these two. Thinking of this today feels directly linked to the unique form of Gift that I conceived of receiving from The Holy Spirit recently. Given that the topic is memory recall, I'm wondering what path this memory turned story took to return with this connection today. It is already reminding me of Hope as a raven tasked with gathering new ideas.

Medium Term Memory possesses the frame of reference of short term memory, and the reach of recall of long term memory, with the memory center prompting applicable memories to the mind's eye as they are found. While the frame is not fully felt in the moment, it is felt strongly, and it is fully aligned and available within the framework of the thought cluster. The result is that many memories can be associated strongly and quickly, in order to tackle a complex problem that one already has the answer to, in some way.

I have a long standing series called "Fighting Dragons," which is essentially this process handled through the dream/wake cycle, but today is the first time that I am conceiving of a methodology of doing this reliably while awake. The motivation to write this followed the pattern presented in the post as well, as I had set the notion aside multiple times, but it kept reforming insistently in this way, to draw my focus into writing it out. I am excited to see how the operation of such an imagined mental structure, for a very real thought process, goes.

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