Remember

A strange thing happened around this time last year. I was visiting home for my older brother’s wedding and stayed for about a week after to spend time with my family. One evening, my younger brother and I went out to secure some more Krispy Kreme donuts. My brother in the middle of our conversations tried to get philosophical and asked ‘‘Do you think you had a good childhood? Like it was okay, right?’’ or something along those lines. I brushed off what I felt was an absurd question, but then it hit me.

I could not recall a single childhood memory off the top of my head. A complete blank. This continued for several weeks afterward and was something I became more aware of. Now, that doesn’t mean I didn’t remember people from my past I just could not recall exact memories where we had spent time together. One evening I stopped by the local weed shop and bought a shit ton of edibles. I consumed that night roughly 50-60 mgs, which is a lot for someone who never if rarely indulges in marijuana. I was also six months removed from my first and only ever mushroom trip. But that is a story for another time.

During my trip, I turned on my galaxy projector and stared up at it on the ceiling of my bedroom. Suddenly and without warning a flood of memories came to me. I begun to remember with great accuracy the names and faces of old childhood classmates. People I had not thought of in well over a decade. I was also able to remember the exact layout of my elementary and middle schools as well as memories from when I was growing up.

What is more shocking is over the past year, I’ve had this happen to me multiple times where I will get hit with a flood of old memories out of nowhere. I have no answers as to why this is.