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When Family Members Remember the Same Events Completely Differently

I'm writing my memoir and I realize my strongest childhood memories contradict what my siblings remember about the exact same events.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Each consciousness constructs its own version of shared experiences based on attention, emotion, and developmental stage at the time of encoding.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Memory — how it works and fails?”

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