Recollections are the MEMORIES and memoirs of a person's life. They can be written down in a memoir or simply remembered as MEMORIES. The term recollections is often used to refer to both memoirs and MEMORIES, as they are closely related. Memoirs are written accounts of a person's life, while MEMORIES are the mental images and experiences that a person has stored in their mind. Both are important parts of a person's life story and can be used to reflect on the past.