The truth about false memories

Our inaccurate recall of past events is a colourful and important part of human storytelling
“I always remember the wavy long hair that fell down as my mother bent down to hand me my toothbrush. But she never had curly hair, and it was never long.”All of us have probably experienced the phenomenon of false memory. It’s when we find out what we remember was not quite what happened, or did not happen at all. I’m captivated by this strange disconnect in how we think about ou