Aw man! I have false memories all the time that were created by dreams and people will have to tell me that those things never happened, then I'll realize that they're right and I'll feel QUITE ridiculous. |
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I have a few memories from my childhood that I found out never happened. |
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I dream a lot, need not be asleep.
Aw man! I have false memories all the time that were created by dreams and people will have to tell me that those things never happened, then I'll realize that they're right and I'll feel QUITE ridiculous. |
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Oh yes! I've got a false memory of my family and I feeding an elephant at a zoo some bananas and large peanuts. We also gave it a bath. I asked my parents about it a year or two ago, and they said we never did that. |
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I love fake memories! They happen to me quite often and I have learned how to create false memories of dreams within a dream too! Good times. |
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I only have a mild version of this. I'll sometime remember some little thing, and then think "Oh wait, that was a dream." |
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If it doesn't exist then why do I remember it, if we're talking about the same thing? I recall other parts to the episode, too; There was one male character down there who was green and a (to my recollection,) female character who said something about Ariel looking into some bag and at first, Ariel looked in it but she quickly shut her eyes before whatever effect the bag may have had on her would've had. There were some other characters who were turned into snails or something. Eventually her father found her and put an end to the whole thing; he let those who were trapped out of the trap, whatever that was. |
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Last edited by 101Volts; 12-18-2014 at 04:31 AM.
You're welcome. And admittedly, I do consider some memories to be "Not quite there." I used to remember a Scooby-Doo episode a bit differently, but for all I know it may have just been a dream of it. I was young then. And if it's so, I can consider the past to all be past. I can consider parts that were, to not be of me now. I can cherry-pick and disregard the bad times that don't serve any good purpose whatsoever; that's all "The old me that's of no good purpose." I'm no longer that sad person. |
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I have had similar experiences, but I also have an issue with false memories of other dreams being created in dreams. For example, I once had a nightmare in which an evil spirit was haunting me and claimed to be the ghost from my childhood nightmares, which I then remembered vividly, but upon waking up realized that I had never before seen such a creature and that it was likely a memory created by the dream. What scares me about this is that I often cannot tell the difference; if I recall a previous dream from within a dream, I then cannot discern in waking life whether the earlier dream ever occurred, because I have no evidence to refer to. That's part of why I try to write down what dreams I do recall, so that later on I'll know I actually dreamt them when I thought I had. It makes me doubt my own memory. |
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I have lots of false memories while in the dream state, but usually recognize them as false after I awake. |
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Same here. I had one oddball case a few years ago where a specific dream false memory almost overrode my waking life version somehow, actually leaving me confused for a few days before it weakened and I once again knew for sure which was real and which wasn't. A little disconcerting, but rather interesting. |
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One problem I have with establishing whether childhood memories are false: for many of them it is my word against my mother's word, and we are both engaging in selective memory and false memories. My mom almost on purpose choose to not remember some unpleasant things. The dilemma I have is how many of my unpleasant childhood memories are a figment of my imagination combined with dreams combined with my mind over the years during depression selectively choosing to remember mostly negatives. Versus how many of those memories are real but my mom chose to forget and sugar coat them in optimism and denial and as a response to coping with an unhappy marriage and emotional abuse plus a tendency for compulsive lying and believing the lies to be truth. |
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You may say I'm a dreamer.
But I'm not the only one - John Lennon
On the other hand it occurred to me that a memory that I have from when I was a teen could actually be a dream memory, and I may not have any way to prove it either way. |
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You may say I'm a dreamer.
But I'm not the only one - John Lennon
Hi JoannaB thanks for the interpretation of my dream ,about memories ...we should remember the good ones so we would smile and remember the bad ones so we dream and let our subconscious delete them and our imagination make them the best memories ever so we will have a ore positive view about ourselves and the people around us |
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