remind and remember

You remember something. One person reminds another of, or about, something. Also an event or a situation can remind you.

You remind me of my boss.
Please remind me to call Michael.
He reminded me about the meeting.

See the synonym section here:

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/remember

This is a good dictionary for such stuff.

That's what I thought.

but lets say I was sitting around and wondering and then something came into my mind.. the first time I met my b.f. for example. so then I say "I remembered the first time I met my b.f." but how do I seperate this from, just remembering , keeping in mind, that event.

it's one thing to keep in mind something, and it's another thing to recall something= some

Perhaps this helps:

RECALL suggests an effort to bring back to mind

REMEMBER implies a keeping in memory that may be effortless or unwilled

remind: it's to restart a memory
remember: is to keep a memory
recall: to bring up a

Remind is causing a person to remember.

Remember is to recall something.