Human memory, driven by emotional self-interest, goes to extraordinary lengths to provide evidence to back up whatever understanding of the world we have our hearts set on—however removed that may be from reality.
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When memory is called to answer, it often answers back with deception.
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What’s stored in that memory isn’t the actual events, but how those events made sense to us and fit into our experience.
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Our memories are filled with gaps and distortions, because by its very nature memory is selective.
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To fill in the holes, we turn our memories into specific images, which our minds understand as representing a specific experience, object, or thought.
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Our past experiences have been dismantled, analyzed, re-collated, and then made ready for imagistic recall.
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The images we store in our memories are not exact replicas of what we experienced; they’re what our minds turn them into. They are what we need to re-create the story.
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It’s difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.
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Did this happen? Yes. Did this happen in this way? The answer to that, if you’re a grown-up, is “Not necessarily.”
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When memories are involved, you have to admit that there’s no single truth.
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Yes I can reflect what you are saying. But sometimes the past haunts us, good or bad. We want it back sometimes. Be it a relationship which you lost or a moment with friends. How to move past those moments?
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Accept they're gone.
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Yes Julian..that's reality
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