The Importance of Impressions and Ideas

We only experience reality in our minds we have to interpret it if we interpret some mental content as going on now then it feels more forceful in general but if we interpret it as having passed already some time ago we will not experience it as being present and forceful look i can recommend what Hume says on all of this where he goes on to write more he writes in total about ten dense paragraphs on this distinction between impressions and ideas. But prepare for disappointment when it comes to actually grappling with the origin of ideas or where ideas come from that ideas can be explained by recourse to stuff happening out there in reality  does not actually explain how they both arise the impressions and the ideas in the mind it just