Post by lenlenlen1 on Mar 22, 2019 17:16:48 GMT
These experiences have nothing to do with "false memories" (imo) and that is a whole 'nuther subject as was
"Hear hoofbeats ? Think horses, not zebras."
I prefer the term "incorrect memory", as opposed to "false". I don't want to insinuate that anyone is outright lying.
But I believe that in some cases remembering things incorrectly is exactly what's happening. When you believe something so strongly you can actually make yourself remember things differently than they actually happened in reality.
Someone I know once told me a story of how they were strangled by a ghost when they were a little kid.
Years later they remembered it differently. The facts in the story had changed.
And years after that they finally acknowledged that it was their abusive father who strangled them.
But when they first told me the story they SWORE it was a ghost in their room.
It happens.