Remembering and fiction-making are virtually indistinguishable.
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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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To remember is to recall what we’ve forgotten.
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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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Memory loves to go hunting in the dark.
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When memories are involved, you have to admit that there’s no single truth.
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