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I was very interested in the discussion on memory today, both because it was a new idea I hadn't put much thought to before and because it seemed plausible.  I watched an interview with a woman who "could not forget," (hyperthesmia, I believe) -- I was astounded as she rattled off small factual tidbits from twenty years previous.  During class, I tried to apply this to the concept of memory telling a 'story.'  It seemed, by observation, that this woman was able to pull newly acquired sensations and apply them to sensations she had 'learned' years ago.  Perhaps there is an "extra" or enhanced connection between this woman's cognitive unconscious and storyteller that allows her to apply/recreate (in effect) information learned in cognitive unconscious many years ago when prompted by her storyteller in the present (when cued by some input/sensory information)?