🏞️3. Neural Recycling

Sometimes, your brain gets a little lazy. It comes across something—a smell, a place, a situation—that vaguely reminds it of something else, but not quite enough to pull up the full memory. Instead, you’re left with that odd feeling of, “Hmm, this feels familiar... but why?” It’s like meeting someone new and thinking, “Wait, do I know them, or do they just have the same haircut as my cousin?”