Brain rewrites memories each time you recall them.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

29 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

I don't remember many things, but those I remember, are accurate. I don't just make shit up like some sloppy fool these scientists would like me to believe.

I think it isn't as extreme as saying the brain totally changes shit when we recall memories, but they gradually shift and change with each recall. I think it is a very slow process.

There are actually shitloads of studies and well established findings around memory being a reconstruction that shifts over time. Frederic Bartlett, Elizabeth Loftus did work on how we actively fill gaps with what makes sense, change details to match beliefs, simplify shit and how we can genuinely be convinced of shit that never happened. Satanic Panic stuff. Hermann Ebbinghaus did work on how time degrades accuracy of memory.

We can skew the original sensory imprint we have due to internal biases within us. 

As soon as you alter the language we use around a memory ie smashed vs hit this can change a lot. It is some of the basis around neuro linguistic programming.

It is actually a huge foundational point to reaffirm your case that bias is just THAT big in humans.

Not arguing against your good memory, more that I have seen the sort of stupid shit people pull with recall. Brainwashing themselves.

Edited 3 hours ago by Natasha Tori Maru

[Joshe]

This is the whole reason statue of limitation exists. Memories eventually become unreliable unless they're kept alive.

The Mandela Effect comes to mind.

• Was there a show called "Sex In The City" or "Sex and The City"? 
• Is it "Oscar Meyer" or "Oscar Mayer"? 
• Is it "Sketchers" or "Skechers" shoes? 
• Did the Monopoly Man have a monocle?
• Is there a hyphen in KitKat?
• Did Forrest Gump say "Life is like a box of chocolates"?
• Did Curious George have a tail?
• How did Mickey Mouse hold up his pants?
• Did Sinbad play a genie in the movie "Shazaam"? lol 

Answers: https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/entertainment/g28438966/mandela-effect-examples/

Aside from making shit up, we also create memories by imagining things, and then in the future we sometimes mistake what we imagined for an actual experience. For example, when I was a kid I heard stories about traumatic situations that I was too young to remember, and so I created really vivid pictures/clips in my head about what took place, and for most of my life I thought those imaginings actually occurred. 

We're all susceptible to these things. 

[Leo Gura]

45 minutes ago, Joshe said:

The Mandela Effect comes to mind.

• Was there a show called "Sex In The City" or "Sex and The City"? 
• Is it "Oscar Meyer" or "Oscar Mayer"? 
• Is it "Sketchers" or "Skechers" shoes? 
• Did the Monopoly Man have a monocle?
• Is there a hyphen in KitKat?
• Did Forrest Gump say "Life is like a box of chocolates"?
• Did Curious George have a tail?
• How did Mickey Mouse hold up his pants?
• Did Sinbad play a genie in the movie "Shazaam"? lol 

Has nothing to do with the accuracy of my memories.

This is irrelevant trivia.

Edited 2 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Harikrishnan]

There is a method practiced by people in neville goddard sub and many loa forum called revision. Where they revise things happened in the past according to how they want it be played out. Gives them more power.

 

[Raze]

2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

I don't remember many things, but those I remember, are accurate. I don't just make shit up like some sloppy fool these scientists would like me to believe.

How do you know slight details and certain emotions didn’t change in the memories over time? 

[Leo Gura]

@Raze How do you know you weren't a gorilla until yesterday?

[gengar]

8 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

@Raze How do you know you weren't a gorilla until yesterday?

I thought you explicated that God is always imagining its past in the present moment - meaning nothing ever "happened", and your entire past is imaginary. If that is true and the absolute claim you thus make is that God is always imagining it's memories, why does imagining your memories in the relative human sense suddenly become an unrealistic claim for you? If God's memories are fake in the absolute sense, that should only make you doubt your memories more in the relative domain, considering the relative is a derivative of the absolute, no?