I literally only remember like the outlines of events, I don’t remember like the colors of clothing, or exact words of converasations, or like smell of the room. How the f do people remember that stuff? Like, no way they have photographic memory, do they just partly invent detail?
Some people keep journals. When those people write their autobiographies, they can check the records.
Other people have good memories.
It’s probably also more important for it to be a good story than for it to be 100% accurate.
Human memory is quite unreliable. Even if they remember, a significant portion will be fiction.
Many autibiographies are personal whitewashing. So it is more a question of creativity than of memory.
Almost all, would be more accurate. And some even unintentional, we tend to unconsciously modify our memory to make ourselves look better
You talk to people you shared those experiences with. Someone is bound to have remembered something different you didn’t
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It definitely varies between people as well. For instance, my sister (with no genetic relation to me) has much better memory than me, which seemed almost superhuman to me when I was growing up. Although, I have since realized that my memory is much worse than average, to the extent where I probably have one or more memory disorders. I’m sure that some people have memory that is much better than average, whether or not my sister is one of them.
You may have aphantasia! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
Read https://archive.is/iMdvd for more info about it
