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the change is minor, each time we recall a memory we are recreating it and mixing it slightly with other memories.

ie: If your memory of your mom is in the kitchen cooking wearing her orange house coat, but on the day you came home from getting beat up at school( super emtional, so a much stronger created memory) she wasnt wearing the housecoat, your brain in recreating the memory years later might have her wearing the orange housecoat. Small , slight changes, each time.

Make sense?

Probably not very accurate. Even if it's only a 1% change each time, if it's over and over it will drastically change the overall memory. But at the same time, it won't necessarily change every little thing about it. Some of the details may change a lot but the more important part of it won't change as much, or even at all.

Memory is tricky like that

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It's not always minor! It might be an outlier effect with the conditional of being trans though.

I often recall memories and in them I am me, a girl, as is normal in my everyday life, and then go: 'wait a sec, this memory was from before transitioning.'

I kinda system crash for a moment or two after that usually.

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An excellent (para)phrase used was "The memory of the memory, like an image varnished over the years with each recollection."

The Mandela effect is way more worrying than not really remembering stuff from when you were a kid.

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So is the memory that years later maybe general details are accurate but specific details are not very accurate?

So is the memory that years later maybe general details are accurate but specific details are not very accurate?

Yes but it could be the opposite as well- you could remember specific details very well bc they stick out in your mind, whereas general details might be harder to keep real and intact.

There isn't really one true answer for something like this. It will be different from person to person, and even for one specific person it will be different memory to memory.

I do think though that if you have one outstanding experience, that you can hold onto the feeling you have from it (whether consciously or not), and remember and be able to access that feeling for a long long time. And even if you're not sure how accurate your memory is, that feeling will still be there.

So is it basically like cant know the accuracy of the memories?

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