Does the brain memorize or not - proof?

Like activating in parallel the memorized fragments of “a nice oak under which I took a nap after my last walk in the forest” & “a palm tree on the beach during my previous holidays” & “a painting of a tree I saw at an exhibition” to generalize the concept of a tree ? Generalization by union-ing sets? But activations would get denser & denser with time. Where is the limit?