A memory like a sieve Hello everyone! "A memory like a sieve" is the expression of the week on BBC learning English, my favourite site to learn English. It's an expression for something we don't like. It describes an error or an unwanted habit. However it's a required phenomenon. It's physiological and necessary to organise our mind. Unfortunately we can't always decide what we remind and which bits of information fall through our memory - at least not consciously. We sieve all the Informations all the time, even the facts about our biography. We mostly remember those episodes which matches with our concept of ourself. We pick up those episodes which confirm our concept of ourself. That's a normal phenomenon, but if we are in a negative mood and look in a bad way on ourself this phenomenon often causes to be caught on a negative mood. Sometimes depressions are a result of this kind of sieving our biography. Consequently it's really worth to explore our biography to positive experiences which were fallen through the sieve. Thank you for your correction and have a nice week furthermore!