I was reading chapter 1 of chainsaw man again (Started 2 years ago) and it felt like I was reading it for the first time. Like I literally forgot that it was his father’s debt or that he sold his nut or even that it was the yakuza that tried to kill him. I know the very bare skeleton story, but I easily forget details in between.
Should I go to a doctor or am I overthinking it?
It’s called the serial-position effect and it’s nothing to worry about.
You’ll mostly remember the start and the end of a story than the middle of the story (unless the middle of the story has something more memorable than the ending and the beginning of a story).
But this is the very beginning, not the middle