Conscious Subconscious Memory Access

Why are memories in your subconscious so much harder to access than conscious memories?

If you consider times in your life when you are not consciously attentive, it seems that those memories are much more difficult to intentionally recall, than memories at times of conscious awareness. For eg, when someone is dreaming or drunk (to the point of loss of coherent thought), those memories seem to be quite difficult to recall. Or similarly, any times throughout a regular day, when a person is not paying attention, and just reacting to surroundings subconsciously. Even at times when someone is consciously aware, it seems to be only the specific things which they are focusing on, which are easily recalled afterwards. All the other data which the persons’ senses are perceiving without them being aware of, seems to be lost from easy conscious memory access.  

It seems as though conscious attention highly prioritizes those memories over others, for ease of conscious access in the future. The main cause of this may be due to the function of memory storage. In my last post; Fundamental Focus, I explained how focus seems to be fundamental to the function of memory. Focus on certain measurements within active sensory input, allows more distinction between various factors, so that certain factors can be more effectively recognized in the future. During the process of conscious thought, focus on certain details also causes those details to be saved more distinctly, via reinforcing ease of electrical flow to the neural combo which represents a separate factor. Additionally, focus during thought allows learning, through the process of new macro neural combinations being created, by linking memory of 1 factor to another, and memory of how 1 causes an effect on another. All this may explain why conscious access to subconscious memories seems to be so difficult.

If focus during conscious thought or attention, prioritizes electrical flow to specific factors within memory (including connections between the factors), then that would cause future electrical flow to neurons, to connect to those specific neural combos (representing factors) much easier than any other data in memory. Conscious attention seems to be generally, by default, stimulated by factors which are most important, so it seems like an effective process for the brain to prioritize those memories via ease of electrical flow to neurons. 

A lot of data perceived subconsciously, would likely be jumbled together without distinct factors being saved as a separate neural combo. Accessing memories within that mass combined data, would perhaps be like looking at a video or image with a lot of colors and forms, but nothing within the video is recognizable or distinct from anything else. If your brain did not make distinctions between various measurements, during a time of subconsciously recorded data, then there is that lack of individualized neural combos to represent certain factors within the data. If there is a lack of specific neural combos being accessed, then there is a lack of reinforcement and ease of electrical flow, in order to access those specific neural combos representing distinct factors. This should make it much more difficult to remember anything specific within subconscious memory, and make any memory less likely to be triggered without the neural connection from 1 factor to another.

It seems that the function of conscious attention and memory access, causes a significant priority for input and future recollection, for that which is focused on. By focusing on more specific factors and connections between them, this causes and allows more effective electrical flow to neural combos representing factors and their connections, which are likely to be more important. By default, this should cause difficulty of Conscious Subconscious-Memory-Access.