The day I learned to ride a bicycle.

    After almost falling over numerous times, I finally advanced 10m. The sense of accomplishment I felt could not be put into words.

    Afterwards, I had this thought that worried me.

    What if I forget how to ride a bike when I wake up tomorrow?

    But the next day, and the day after that, I didn’t have any trouble riding my bike around. That was because my body remembered what to do.

    A kind scholar defined it in this way…

    Procedural Memory.

    But the thing is….

    No matter where I searched on the Internet, there was no explanation about the phenomenon I am currently experiencing.

    I can do tricks I haven’t learned on a skateboard, play the piano expertly without having touched one before, and even swing a tennis racket naturally when I had never even trained…

    What do you call it when you can make use of the procedural memory of others as if it was yours?

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