Faulty memory circuits
Apparently most of us have them.
(Been reading New Scientist at lunchtime.*)
I was greatly relieved to hear this, since I have been wrestling - especially since starting this journal - with the issue of what is 'true' and what is a 'real' memory and how when you tell a story about what you remember, it is all too easy for the memory to become that story.
It seems that this happens to most people most of the time. The narrative of our personal history, the very story that gives us our identity and sense of continuity and context, is largely a work of fiction that we re-work constantly in light of our experiences.
I find that strangely reassuring... I always felt I was making it up as I was going along.
Or did I just make that up?
(*Because I needed to cool off after reading and re-reading some particularly hot stuff. Not anything I wrote, I hasten to add...)