Human Memory Reliability
Discussions center on the unreliability of human memory, including false memories, reconstructive processes, deficient autobiographical memory, and personal experiences with recall and forgetting.
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Sounds like you have deficient autobiographical memory. Psychology discovered this was a thing only in the last 10 years. I have the same experience.https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181112-severely-deficie...
People will "remember" things that didn't happen.
how do you know these memories are real?
What if you just don't remember the experiences you've had during this moment? Not impossible, imho
this also plays into memory and why we can have false memory about events that never happened. because we can't tell the difference.
Damn, I didn't know people's memories could be archived and replayed.
Memories are notoriously unreliable, pliable, subject to induction etc. You may absolutely have retained memories from that age, but it's just as likely that someone told you and your turned it into a memory.
I don’t know if this aligns with your thinking but there is a theory that memory is largely reconstructed every time it is remembered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstructive_memory
Is it possible that we dont remember them precisely because they are temporary (atleast in the grand scheme of things)?
Honestly memory is such an untrustworthy thing!