Reconsolidation
Memory reconsolidation is the moment memory
loosens its grip.
When recalled, it softens—no longer fixed, briefly open.
In that opening, it can be altered: strengthened, weakened, reshaped,
touched by new context or understanding.
Remembering is not retrieval but return.
The past is taken down from its shelf, unfolded,
and before it is put back, it is changed.
What remains is not the same memory as before,
but one rewritten by the act of being remembered.
Memories are not fixed recordings,
but living forms
rebuilt each time they surface,
reshaped in the act of remembering.
