For consciousness to fully understand itself, it has to go through a paradox. It must forget itself.
Consciousness, in its purest form, is infinite. It has no boundaries, no contrast, no separation, just limitless existence. But if something is everything, how can it truly know itself?
It creates experiences, constructs, and illusions of separation so that it can interact with itself. It fragments into different perspectives, all so that it can experience itself in ways it never could as a singular object.
The forgetting was just part of the journey so that the remembering could be meaningful.