The Fallibility of Memory Reconstruction

Your memory is not a video recorder, it is a reconstruction machine. When you think about

your childhood home, your brain isn't opening a saved file. It is literally

forcing your neurons to fire in the exact same pattern they did years ago. You are physically

rebuilding the past inside your head right now. This is why the hippocampus is so

crucial; it is the index that tells the brain how to travel back in time. But here is the

scary part. Every time you rebuild that memory, you accidentally edit it.

The stories you tell the most are likely the ones that are the least true.