- “That's Long Term Memory. You could get lost in there!”
- ―Sadness warning Joy
Long Term Memory is a large labyrinth-like structure located in Riley's mind in the Disney/Pixar film, Inside Out. It is where all of Riley's normal memories are stored.
History[]
Inside Out[]
Long Term Memory occupies the majority of the mind's area and consists of a maze of thousands of banks of stored memories. The emotions can recall and send memories from Headquarters, the site of memory production, via numerous tubes. The shelves are cleaned of faded memories by the Forgetters, Mind Workers who remove faded memories and send them to the Memory Dump.
After Joy and Sadness accidentally got vacuumed out of Headquarters, they ended up landing here. In order to get back to Headquarters, Joy and Sadness had to start their journey by first traveling through Long Term Memory. According to Sadness, you could easily get lost in Long Term Memory due to its colossal size and maze-like pathways.
Inside Out 2[]
By the time of the second movie, Long Term Memory had grown and expanded. Despite having been there, Joy was unable to navigate the shelves.
Appearance[]
Long Term Memory consists of winding shelves with memories lined up.
Notes and Trivia[]
- The shelves of Long Term Memory curve and bend in order to evoke the shape of the folds and wrinkles ("gyri" and "sulci") in the brain.