In one of Stephen King's works, The Dreamcatcher, there is a character that has an accident and ends up 'dying'(heart stops a couple of times). His friends call him Jonesy and he's an adorable ginger. 

Anyway, you get to see his Memory Warehouse, the banks of his mind where he keeps everything and what he does to the things he forgets: (After some chatter between him and friends)

https://youtu.be/TeqFXHhDEM4

This is actually where I first saw this idea and fell in love with it