Our bodies remember even when we want to forget. Our bodies remember even—perhaps especially—if we never formed a conscious verbal memory of the experience in the first place. In other words, when those dramatic moments are also traumatic, dissociation is a common reaction. We cope with the unbearable by removing ourselves psychologically, and the results are fuzzy, distorted, or even nonexistent memories of what happened. But it turns out that sometimes the faintest, fuzziest of memories can have the most impact.
