Hello and welcome to Everything Explained. Today we’re diving into a question a lot of us wonder about: how does the brain form memories? You might forget where you left your keys, then suddenly remember the lunch spot from last summer. The answer isn’t a single light bulb moment. Memory is a process, happening in many parts of the brain, with steps that can be short or long, easy or tricky. We’ll walk through encoding, consolidation, storage, and retrieval, to understand how brain creates memories.