Jekyll and Hyde
Our brains are not recording our lives, our brains are interpreting our lives, and then producing a memory. If five people witness a bank robbery, and then retell it, the details that the brain misses will be filled in by the brain of the person. Details tend to change from person to person. You will get five different stories, told from 5 different points of view. One person will talk about how scary the guy was, and could tell you the color of his eyes, while another will not even notice the man and focus on the gun, they can tell you the kind of gun, but not the color of the eyes. It is very unusual for anyone to have any memories earlier then about 3 years old. It is called Infantile Amnesia. It is unsure if the brain is not developed enough yet, but it is generally thought that we do have the memories, but there is not a good way to access them. Whatever the reason, I can only tell you the first years of my life are only composed of other people's stories. And, that is problematic, because trauma messes with people's memories. For some reason,…
