Well the example is not exactly the same issue , but it leads to the same cause that what our brain processes is not what is actually written . Another point is blurry childhood memory . Check this long ago was your childhood memory ? Is it only known to you or has your father told others about it ? I have some pictures stories from my childhood in my head , stories which have been constantly rephrased by my father . These pictures feel like my own memories but they are from my fathers point of view . For example the story where he brought me to childcare and I was crying desperately and when he left I kept staring sad through the window to him . I only know this story from his narrations but I have this picture of myself in my head how I look out of that windows , looking so sad that my father came back and took me home again . Of course it could be that universes shifted and I was my father previously , but actually I think that my brain makes up things is much more likely . You can accept that by admitting that your memories may be inaccurate and only partly matching with reality , especially when it comes to our childhood memories . Do you really think that it ' s more likely that someting in the universe changed instead of something inside your brain ? That ' s a very egocentric point of view .