There was an article in the news awhile ago that I haven't gotten around to blogging until now. It's titled "Too much knowledge can be bad for some types of memory, study finds" and it really resounds with me how true that has been, in my personal experience. A key phrase is:
The results show how some types of memory might be better when people forget what they know and instead approach a subject with a child-like sense of na?vet?.
I've found this to be quite the case, and although I've never really forced myself to be childlike in my perspective of how I perceive the world, it just rolls off that way like ducks off a water's back. Particularly telling was also this:
"There seems to be an inverse relationship between the ability to categorize and the ability to remember details," Sloutsky said. "If you're very attentive to details — like the children in this experiment — you can't create categories. But without ignoring the details, we would be unable to categorize."
I've been told many times that I'm observant, and yet, I have a hard time boxing stuff in. There may be a correlation. What a contradiction! I love those. 
Have you ever heard Future Sound Of London's "My Kingdom"? It is one of my favorite?electronic music?compositions of all time. It samples Vangelis's "Rachel's Song" from his Blade Runner score featuring Mary Hopkin's vocals, with haunting, delayed flutes and clockwork beats that are flexible like toffee yet fascistically rhythmic, insistent on the beat like gears grinding bone. The EP version is even grander than the album edit, linking a quintet of sections into a whole, like 5 concentric circles slowly rotating like satellites around some grander solar body, each maintaining its own discreet spin while still being part of the collective mass. And I shudder.
The music video for "My Kingdom" was even greater… today, I can relate it to my SL experiences. What happens is that it takes place in an everyday sort of happenstance in an English city, possibly London, with some?Asian?guy walking around,?and then bizarre shapes — with shadows! — begin to descend upon the atmosphere, imposing their (then-crude) rendered 3D forms on the landscape. My memory is prolly grander than actually reviewing the video so many years after having watched it on?repeat with the same tape I once recorded?NIN's "The Perfect Drug", but dare I say it, I just may have found an FTP treasure trove of FSOL.