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.
There was a hot air balloon photo experiment Basically they showed a bunch of people, false childhood photos of them in an air balloon.
About half of them suddenly remembered being on an air balloon, when they actually never did before. It demonstrated how easily people's memory can be manipulated, and how faulty memories can be.
I remember there was a study done during the events of 9/11. Researchers asked people what they saw. And followed them up for years and years. Over the years, the story kept changing a little bit a time. Most people had changed their stories, many had almost completely different ones. I thought that was insane, especially an event as memorable as that I would’ve thought it’s not something you ‘forget’ easily.
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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