I had a similar experience writing a retroactive trip journal after a few weeks through central Europe. In the month after returning home, I'd spend at least 30 minutes (sometimes an hour or more) late at night just brain-dumping everything I remembered from the trip in chronological order. I deliberately wrote stream-of-consciousness style, in the dark, eyes closed, and I was astounded at the level of detail recall I could achieve--not only minute-by-minute, inch-by-inch recollection of events and places, but in slow motion (if I so chose, replayed any number of times), allowing me to re-live the entire trip.
Deliberately plunging my brain back into the places and situations I'd been in recreated the super-stimulated "traveling brain" state. I think the act of reliving and reinforcing the memories made them even more vivid now several years later than they otherwise would have been.
I believe the key aspects of the process were both the deliberate memory churning and the typing--the physical transfer of the brain activity. Maybe my ~80 WPM typing speed happened to be a good match/governor for my recall rate, too.
Now this wouldn't be at all practical on a day-to-day basis since day-to-day life details are so repetitive, but I could for sure see the benefits of picking some out of the ordinary event or encounter and drilling back through it to discover what else your brain has to offer. I can also see the potential in trying it for a known future event for planning purposes.
Deliberately plunging my brain back into the places and situations I'd been in recreated the super-stimulated "traveling brain" state. I think the act of reliving and reinforcing the memories made them even more vivid now several years later than they otherwise would have been.
I believe the key aspects of the process were both the deliberate memory churning and the typing--the physical transfer of the brain activity. Maybe my ~80 WPM typing speed happened to be a good match/governor for my recall rate, too.
Now this wouldn't be at all practical on a day-to-day basis since day-to-day life details are so repetitive, but I could for sure see the benefits of picking some out of the ordinary event or encounter and drilling back through it to discover what else your brain has to offer. I can also see the potential in trying it for a known future event for planning purposes.