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Memory (none / 0) (#82)
by Nadai on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 12:32:30 AM EST
I've had the same experience - vivid but wrong.  I can clearly remember one event happening to me which actually happened to my youngest sister.  In another "memory", I've conflated two events that happened 3-4 years apart into one, even making the later event the "cause" of the earlier one.  And those are just the "memories" I know are wrong.

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Eh (none / 0) (#89)
by zyx on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 12:39:37 AM EST
My link to that book doesn't 'splain the kind of memory thing that I'm thinking about.  One thing that startled me is that a memory we retrieve often is subject to having errors inserted.  It's like every time you take it out you make a not-so-great xerox and that's what gets put back in the memory bits of the brain.  Do this often and you compound the errors.  I would have thought something you think of often would be better-remembered and, well, sharper.

I have some memories that seem very vivid that I am quite certain were just dreams.  They must be dreams that have recurred or something, and just seem completely real.  Some are from when I was about five or six, but some are relatively recent.  They seem pretty real, and I have no clue about the childhood ones.

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