My memory is shocking
I also find it hard to distinguish between real memories and false memories based around photos or videos I've seen.

The real memories tend to be more vague, although I do remember my dad coming home one day from work and I was in a cushion fort I'd built and he had bought us a tape of disney songs.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 23 Aug 2012, 10:16, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

I get the same thing with memories of my Mum, I struggle to remember which are mine, and which ones I've simply been told about.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 23 Aug 2012, 10:18, Reply)

It's a well documented phenomenon, mild irritant for me, but probably quite sad for you unfortunately

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 23 Aug 2012, 10:20, Reply)

It can be, it just gets quite odd when I think about the most prominent memories of my Mum, and I know that the first that comes to mind isn't even my memory.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 23 Aug 2012, 10:36, Reply)

Human memory is incredibly unreliable
You can swear blind you remember something when it'll have been something that somebody told you once and your imagination fills in the blanks.
( Kroney, Thu 23 Aug 2012, 10:38, Reply)

The Japanese have an expression for this.
"They lie like an eye whiteness"
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 23 Aug 2012, 10:57, Reply)

i just read the new sophie hannah book
where she had clearly done a lot of research on hypnotherapy, and there is a whole chapter about memories and what the brain does to turn them into stories. it was v interesting. great book.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 23 Aug 2012, 10:24, Reply)