Three of us started a book club to process childhood memories together, but we're realizing that talking about the past is actually changing how we remember things, and now I can't tell which memories are mine versus stories I've absorbed from them. It's becoming confusing instead of clarifying.
More people experience this than they realize.
The very act of collective remembering is altering individual memory, creating uncertainty about what actually belongs to each person's experience.
“Where Are You with Memory — how it works and fails?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.