crazy big slideshow

i've been dabbling with a concept today which has me in such an odd head space so, bear with me.
i think about other people a lot. i don't mean that in a generous way. i mean that in the sense that someone will pop into my mind out of nowhere and i'll see slideshows in my head of everything i can remember about them.
sometimes i'll remember actual things like things i've said to them that still embarrass me or random snippets of conversation or the specific way they laugh. regardless, it's like time-travel for me and is a little exhausting when, on a day like today, my head is like an 12-lane interstate in L.A.
every five seconds someone random will pop into my head. like a girl i was in 4th grade with. i can't get her carol brady haircut out of my head. now she's married with a daughter and another on the way. she used to sit on one side of me and my 5th grade (eventual) boyfriend sat on the other which reminds me of when he farted in my face in class.
then a friend of mine who i haven't seen in a while. about the last time i saw him was back in may when he threw a party; and that makes me think of this painting he did that hangs on my fridge and how i felt when he gave it to me. it was something i needed. that remains a poignant and important memory to me.
or i think of this random person i used to always see at Railroad Square every first friday. he always wore denim cut-off shorts. couldn't tell you his name to save my life. but it makes me laugh to remember.
people from high school i haven't seen in years, old crushes, people i've lost, mean bosses, random cool people, best friends, boyfriends, my grandmother, etc. it's like watching a thousand home movies at once. it is almost information overload and yet, there are so many things i cannot remember over the years.
it makes me wonder if i ever pop into someone's mind like that; and how it is they remember me (good and a lot of bad i'm sure). some i could ask but probably won't. others i never will be able to ask no matter how much i would want to.
that's where my head is today.