Memories are always part-fabrications. Our brain store "key" moments it thinks it is important, then make up the rest of it. But this process is not really tru

Memories are always part-fabrications. Our brain store "key" moments it thinks it is important, then make up the rest of it. But this process is not really trustworthy on the finer details and is extremely receptive to any sort of suggestion because it simply doesn't have any factual data, so happily jumps to anything which seems to fit the narrative. This is especially true in scenarios where you experience strong emotions. Anything feels like to fit (like, someone paints a scenario which creates the same type of emotion) our brain just accepts it as a matter of fact and puts the puzzle in. It's why implanting false memories is extremely easy and leading questions work so well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_the_mall_technique https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_the_mall_technique Anything that you remember from your life is mostly fabrications with a couple of actual memories used as a scaffolding, and your brain just built the rest of the structure around it - constantly changing it.