Telepathy

For the following post I ask you to suspend disbelief.

Often times I have found myself wondering how my wife's brain works. What? I would ask myself, is going through her mind. I have a pretty good handle on how my mind works and where it's weaknesses are, but my wife's mental file structure has remained a bit of a mystery. The other night, I had a breakthrough. She said, "I'm hungry." so I asked her what she wanted me to do about it. She hadn't said anything and suddenly, out of thin air, I get this mental image of a desert in the pantry's top shelf behind some other boxes in the left corner. I didn't even know we had this desert in the pantry, let alone know where it was. She started to say, "Why don't you..." I cut her off, "don't say it, let me get it and see if I'm right."
So I went into the pantry, reached blindly into the upper left hand corner behind a row of cake mix boxes and retrieved the aforementioned desert. "Huh, it was actually there." I thought to myself. "Is this what you were wanting?" I prompted Holly. "Um... Yeah, how did you know?" I told her not to worry about it, because if I told her I could read her mind then she probably would start wanting me to do it all the time. I can't have that happening now can I? So, what did I learn about my wife's thought process? A lot. This one mental image allowed me to figure out how she knows where my wallet is when I think it has been lost to a black hole somewhere in the vicinity of Orion's Belt. It's not just my wallet though. I can ask her where anything is, no matter how small and she will tell me down to the smallest detail where I will find that object. You see, her mind works a lot like a relational database. It's filled with items, each item has several fields associated with it. The first one is an image of the object's surroundings. I believe this field is updated upon each sighting of the linked object. The next field is a priority marker, this one is used to help return the most relevant results first, saving time on the scanning process. The last one and the one that I find most amazing is the geolocation data that is stored. I'm not sure what format it is using yet, I'm going to need a few more examples to crack the code, but it works well. It could be a linked path from the objects closest to the user to the sought after object, or it could be in something even more sophisticated. All I know is it works. I think Holly is not the only woman who's brain works in this fashion so I figured I would share my deductions and hope that it will help others in some way.