When you're trying to remember something....

[nancylebov]

Here is the one thing of practical value I learned from decades of listening to NPR for fun.

An actor explained that if you can't remember a line, relax.

This speeds up the process of remembering a thing when you stop trying to remember it.

So, tell me useful advice you found somewhere that you don't usually find it. Or methods for getting access to memories.

Sometimes I find that just intending to a thing up on google will bring back the memory, though usually I need to do the search.

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[twistedchick]

When we are trying to think of things -- all of us -- we move our eyes to the side. It's involuntary. It's one of the ways cops find out if someone is lying, because the person's eyes are moving around instead of looking at the cops.

So, if you want to think of something, move your eyes purposely to either left or right side briefly and see what happens.