Workings of the mind.

Whether awake or asleep, after an hour and a half, your brain MUST go offline and reprocess the experience of the immediate past into the categories and structures of long term memory. This ninety minute cycle is due to a limitation of space on the 'blackboard' of short term memory. These experiences are given true and tangible meaning only when embedded into the long-term memory portion of the brain. In other words, the categories of long term memory comprise the basic fundamental definition of meaning! Only then can we analyze and utilize the use of brian functions within our perceptions to comprehend what is real and/or meaningful. This is not to say that we cannot experience a meaningful reality in the moments of our short term memory. However, it is through the use of our long-term memory recollection (in direct correlation with our short term memory)-that validates the 'in the moment' experiences you perceive. Without that, each passing second would not have any real importance, leading to confusion and chaos. We would loose our relationship to ourselves and our world. As an infant, we only really have a short term memory to compute and understand. We cannot validate any understanding of our perceptions as it is without a long term memory experience. Until you have built up your own reality as a person, you cannot understand anything. Long term memory is our reality. I think this explains  a lot in regards to all of our faint memories we have growing up as a very young child; Along with the development of an individual as a whole.

-Retrospective Fred