Are Memories Reliable? Expert Explains How They Change More Than We Realise

¿Cómo convierte una persona los fragmentos de memoria en una historia coherente de la vida? ¿Por qué la comprensión de lo que ve una persona cambia con el contexto en que lo ve?

We spend our lives predicting our future. Anticipating what will come next. Often these predictions about future events are incorrect, and quite often they become part of the stories we tell. We want people to know what we were thinking as well as what we were saying and doing.

if everyone remembered everything, would our differences get shaved away? What would happen to our sense of self? It seemed to me that a perfect memory couldn’t be a narrative any more than unedited security-cam footage could be a feature film.

I’ve told the story to myself in different variations—there are a few versions of it rattling around in my memory, even though the nature of events is that they only happen once and in one way.