(May 18, 2016 at 12:13 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Anyone who's ever sat around a table and recounted stories of their youth with family has been in the situation you find interesting.
You might remember, for example, standing over a dead hog between your uncle, cousin, and grandfather. You remember their clothes - the time of day, the color and size of the hog. Your grandmother smiles and brings you a picture of your uncle, cousin, and grandfather all standing over a dead hog just as you described....except you aren't in the picture.
Are you going to stick with your memory, or "abandon what you know"? What if you didn't have the picture...but there was no disagreement between the involved parties, that you weren't there? Gonna stick with your memory, or "abandon what you know"? It;s a pretty common situation to find oneself in, as a human being, confronting the fallibility of both your memory and your cognitive processes built atop that memory. Most of us, I hope, just shrug and say "hmn, must've seen that picture, must've heard the story, must be remembering wrong".
It takes a special kind of stubborn to insist upon the accuracy of ones "knowledge" despite evidence to the contrary.
Who took the picture?
I don't have a very good memory. And perhaps this makes me more attune and able to recognize what I do remember and do not. What is fuzzy, and what is clear. I also think that it attributes to making me better in my occupation as a troubleshooter of machine controls, because I don't follow a memorized script, but figure it out each time. However I don't think that I have ever simply inserted an entire story into memory, as you are attempting to describe. So, I cant relate.
If this is more common than I thought in others though, perhaps it explains a lot of what I see here.
