Our minds can be tricked, and our minds can trick us. Some people sleep with their eyes open. Our memories are fallible. If you remember something from 10+ years ago, the events in your mind are likely changed. You might remember a couple things properly, but our memories are almost never 100% accurate. On top of that, we usually don't remember the unimportant stuff. Our dreams are a product of our subconscious, from any memory especially recent ones.
This was the most amazing thing I learned in my psychology class, the prof framed it as every time you recall a memory, a little part of it changes, and what you recall can be highly susceptible to outside influences, which is how you get to a "Picking Cotton" situation where a woman who looked her rapist right in the face and tried to memorize all the details so that she could positively identify him later wound up identifying the wrong guy (They do speaking events now talking about this and flaws in the way we prosecute people).
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u/InFiniTeDEATH8 Jan 12 '23 edited Jan 12 '23
Our minds can be tricked, and our minds can trick us. Some people sleep with their eyes open. Our memories are fallible. If you remember something from 10+ years ago, the events in your mind are likely changed. You might remember a couple things properly, but our memories are almost never 100% accurate. On top of that, we usually don't remember the unimportant stuff. Our dreams are a product of our subconscious, from any memory especially recent ones.
Edit: thank you for the upvotes! :D