The mind can keep the emotional weather after losing the event’s address.

The feeling can outlast its story. A place, a smell, a certain time of year brings a heaviness or a lift with no accompanying event attached, because the mind kept the emotional register after the episode itself dissolved. It can be disorienting to feel strongly about something you cannot locate, and it is not a malfunction.

When an unexplained mood arrives with a particular trigger, you can treat it as information rather than a puzzle to solve. Note the trigger, note the feeling, and let the missing episode stay missing. The weather is real whether or not you find the address.