Memory doesn’t work how you think it does

A lot of people have a conception of memory like a video recording a precise recording of the world and we just if if we work hard enough we could recover anything we want. It’s all in there over I don’t know over 100 years a research suggested that’s false that memories are reconstructive. When I tell you what I did yesterday or last year or 5 years ago part of it is based on my actual experience and the traces it left in my

Brain and part of it is what I think is a good answer. What I think makes sense. the sort of the sort of story I think you want to hear, the sort of story I like to tell. There’s a lot of blurring between the the truth of memory and the reconstructive aspect. And so, one ramification of this is that some of the things that we totally believe are true about our past, they’re false memories. I once um I was once telling somebody at

A party this really funny thing that happened to me and my wife was very kind. It was only when we were driving home she reminded me that happened to her and not to me.