Psychology suggests memory is not a recording but a story we rebuild each time: in one experiment, a quarter of people came to ‘remember’ being lost in a mall as a child — an event that never happened
Picture a memory you are sure of. Not a fuzzy one, a solid one. Say a childhood scene where you got separated from your parents in a big shop, felt that cold drop in your stomach, and then a stranger or a shop assistant brought you back. You can almost see the aisle. You remember…