These results are going to necessitate some re-thinking the literature. It suggests that our brains are storing a lot more information than many of us thought just a little while ago. It also suggests a very strange interaction between time and memory strength that will need to be better understood.

One of the most interesting aspects of memory research is 'forgetting' because we forget far less than we think, if anything, that we have been conscious of; rather retrieval is the issue, the state our brain/consciousness is in at a particular instant. Thus, for instance, 'state dependent memory' whereby one recalls things when one is in the same state/environment as the origiinal experience.