I recorded this conversation a few weeks ago while being under lockdown with my wife. What was strange while doing this is that it felt weird recording it while she wasn’t aware. Not something I would do and wasn’t overly keen to do in the first place.

The conversation was over the repeat of the England and Scotland football euro 96 game.

We started to go over how the game had changed, the reaction from the fans compared to today’s fans. The atmosphere from within the stadium and how we thought this was the time football was coming home.

I knew exactly where I was on that day compared to my wife. I was on tour in Northern Ireland working alongside a Scottish Regiment. You could say that the atmosphere in our base was as electrifying too.

When listening to it playback the gaps are more than likely when we have been glued to the game. The tension can be heard and excitement when England scored. Interactions between us were when my wife was trying to attach something to an email for her work. I answer short and sharp so that I’m back in the game.

Elements that the brain forgets are normally small chunks of data compared to elements that can be related to visual points. I couldn’t recall what I was wearing or what the weather was. Had this been a photograph or picture it’s very easy to recall small amounts of information from that day.

People have used various ways to recall information by learning and exercising your memory. KIMs games and how to recall information by creating a virtual story in your mind.

Using 1-10 as example you place 1 item in the story, 2 and so on.

1 spoon, 2 blue cars, 3 apples, 4 men, 5 peacocks etc this creates a story that can recall over time.

Seeing a picture of yourself can recall memories and feelings from that day. The brain is a huge data base of information being stored. Even after so many years where data can be lost, it only takes a small bit of data to at times recall the full amount of information.