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Don't be so sure that its from something you heard and imagined that you later incorrectly recalled as a memory. You can also have retroactive interference, whi
by kem 10y ago
Don't be so sure that its from something you heard and imagined that you later incorrectly recalled as a memory. You can also have retroactive interference, which is when a real memory gets contaminated by events that happened later.
So it's possible you do have a "real" memory of your mom telling your father she was pregnant, but that your brain substituted details from later.
Retroactive interference is a very established phenomenon. My guess is a lot of things like what you described are real memories, and people assume they're imagined events recast as memories because they simply don't believe in early memories. I doubt your parents were discussing details like that later, but you'll probably never really know.
- DashRattlesnake 10y agoThat happened to me. I have a very early memory of a trivial thing (eating a radish and not liking it) from when I about two. It happened at my family's apartment, before we moved into our first house. I later visited that apartment when I was ten, and a lot of the details match my memory(e.g. the location of my Dad's little garden relative to the stairs) EXCEPT the actual visualization of the apartment building, which got replaced with an image of one near our new house twisted to fit the memory.
- flippyhead 10y agoIn the context of witness testimony, this kind of thing is terrifying!