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Great, but how do you know that you didn't re-create that memory based on your parents telling you about it?

• mzs 13y ago
  Here is a case, I left Poland when I was four. Went back in my twenties and met an old neighbor kid now all grown-up. There I saw a wall and I told him how I remembered I had eaten a bug there and grossed-out a bunch of the kids. He was astonished that I remembered it, he remembered it too cause he was in grade school at the time and it was really gross to him what I had done. I asked my family later and they had no idea I had done that.
  • mercer 13y ago
    Is there a possibility that any of the people that observed you doing this told you about it at a later time?
    • mzs 13y ago
      It is very unlikely since I left the country. Possibly some family heard from a kid or parent of kid, but they would would have mentioned it to me when I was still four before I left. Maybe my parents heard, but neither of my parents knew about this when I asked later. So they might have forgotten and if they had said anything it would have been when I was still young. Also I did meet that same kid when I was in 5th grade. But by that age I think one of us would have remembered it that we had talked about it when I was in fifth grade that time we met in our twenties when I brought it up. My hunch is that there can be some strong memories remembered from youth, some people may have more, some less, even none.