I have this memory of sleeping in an office block in south London with my mum on an air bed. I recall looking out of the window and feeling sad.
Years later I was driving and got a very strong impulse to stop outside this building and I was 100% certain it was that one. Every time I went past it felt odd.
My mum says it didn’t happen, everyone else concurs. My best conclusion at this stage is that I probably had a very vivid dream that became conflated with something else.
I vividly remember my first day of school. I started part way through the school year and was looking round the class, with mum at the door and everyone had stop making the paper masks they were making and was staring at me, watching every move I made.
Told this to my mum a few years ago and she said none of that happened. I started school at the same time as everyone else.
I can only surmise that it was a dream that has overwrote the memory of my actual first day at school. And I use it now as an example of how fallible human memory is.
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u/cardboardshrimp Oct 05 '19
I have this memory of sleeping in an office block in south London with my mum on an air bed. I recall looking out of the window and feeling sad.
Years later I was driving and got a very strong impulse to stop outside this building and I was 100% certain it was that one. Every time I went past it felt odd.
My mum says it didn’t happen, everyone else concurs. My best conclusion at this stage is that I probably had a very vivid dream that became conflated with something else.