Residual Self-Image

You know the bit in The Matrix when Neo's been freed, and then they put him into the loading program and he's got hair again and Morpheus says it's his residual self-image?

Mine is apparently stuck at age twelve.

In my head I am both more tan and more blonde than I am in reality. This has nothing to do with our culture's valorization of those qualities -- at least I don't think so -- it's that I used to be such a person, and my hindbrain hasn't quite gotten the memo that years have passed sinc...