<story><title>False memory implantation in adults is easy</title><url>https://brainpizza.substack.com/p/sins-of-memory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wing-_-nuts</author><text>My memory of my childhood is terrible.  I just have little &amp;#x27;flashbulb&amp;#x27; memories, and they mostly seem to be of the worst moments.  I&amp;#x27;ve read that recalling memories will change them, and for some reason &lt;i&gt;those&lt;/i&gt; just happen to be the memories that come to me late at night when I&amp;#x27;m trying to sleep.  I often wonder how those memories have changed in my mind as a result of me getting stuck on them.  I don&amp;#x27;t recall ruminating over those events in childhood, so maybe they weren&amp;#x27;t as bad as I remember and my negativity is slowly twisting them into something worse than they actually were.&lt;p&gt;I feel like I&amp;#x27;m a little ungrateful because I have so few good memories of that time and my parents couldn&amp;#x27;t have really been &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sharkweek</author><text>This is super common.&lt;p&gt;It’s very normal to remember the “bad” stuff (and turn them into worse memories than they really were) because of how our brains are wired to try and avoid said “bad stuff.”&lt;p&gt;All my earliest memories are traumatic in the sense that it was something bad that happened in a very visceral way, e.g., being stung by a bee in my back yard, falling off of a tire swing, the basement door closing behind me and being locked in it for maybe 30 seconds (but my memory is that it was forever).&lt;p&gt;I had the same feelings as you but then in therapy learned how normal it is and that helped a lot.</text></comment>
<story><title>False memory implantation in adults is easy</title><url>https://brainpizza.substack.com/p/sins-of-memory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wing-_-nuts</author><text>My memory of my childhood is terrible.  I just have little &amp;#x27;flashbulb&amp;#x27; memories, and they mostly seem to be of the worst moments.  I&amp;#x27;ve read that recalling memories will change them, and for some reason &lt;i&gt;those&lt;/i&gt; just happen to be the memories that come to me late at night when I&amp;#x27;m trying to sleep.  I often wonder how those memories have changed in my mind as a result of me getting stuck on them.  I don&amp;#x27;t recall ruminating over those events in childhood, so maybe they weren&amp;#x27;t as bad as I remember and my negativity is slowly twisting them into something worse than they actually were.&lt;p&gt;I feel like I&amp;#x27;m a little ungrateful because I have so few good memories of that time and my parents couldn&amp;#x27;t have really been &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WanderPanda</author><text>For me it is the complete opposite, I only remember the good memories and feel nostalgic all the time, thinking everything was better and I was happier 1&amp;#x2F;2&amp;#x2F;5&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;15 years ago</text></comment>