Often people say you should trust other people's reports of their own experience.
What are some times in the past that you were wrong about your reporting of your own experience - even to yourself?
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I'm a slow emotional processor, so sometimes I think I'm fine and then the thing really hits me a day or week later
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Went through a particularly strong period of depression a few years back.
At the time, I had myself convinced that I had never actually experienced happiness in my adult life.
Over time, I realized how badly my then-current state of mind had warped my own memories.
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I found out a few weeks ago that my most vivid childhood memory couldn’t have actually happened
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The first thing I remembered from my childhood was my grandma sitting in front of a large black coal stove, plucking a dead goose.
Apparently the last coal stove in our family was dismounted years before I was born. Same with plucking birds. I have no idea whose memory this is. twitter.com/made_in_cosmos…
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The insane crushes/obsessions I would get on girls over the years (mainly from 14 yrs old to 27 or so) no doubt made me an incredibly unreliable narrator who should have been more skeptical of my own feelings and experience. "I'm in love!" No, you're just vulnerable and anxious.
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One day I mentioned to my mom that dad used to take me to the beach. She corrected me that it was once. I had assumed my patchy memories of him were just scraps of a tapestry, but they were actually everything.
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This would amount to just misremembering something, I guess it could also mean the "elephant in the brain" phenomena/self-deception. Even then, kinda impossible imo to be wrong about how you feel if it's to yourself, seems like experience is one of things you can be certain about
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Many times in my life I have mistaken my jealousy for dislike of another person.
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The way my wife remembers a situation is often 180° off my memory. It seems to be or common. But there no way for me to know who is misreporting. I almost have to assume we are both crazy.