You have to distinguish very thoroughly when investigating the nature of memory. We humans use different brain circles for different kind of memories. What is tackled by "false memory"-studies is only one kind of a very specific memory-system, the explicit memory without emotional impact.
What is far more significant in everyone's life ist the effect of the implicit memory, all what we cant remember in outspoken details but what we have learned and remember in behavior, emotional settings, mindsets, and so on.
On this board, there was an account of an Yoga teacher who had been abused in various ways. I found her story to be authentic and moreover to be exemplaric for how the implicit memory works: her memories of the abuse had been split off first, but then she had these "reminders", flashbacks that resurfaced by smelling a certain smell or listening to certain noise. Moreover her constant fear and irritation and her limited behavioral options indicated to experiences she had to block out. It was only then when inner pictures emerged to tell what all those implicit clues were all about.
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You have to distinguish very thoroughly when investigating the nature of memory. We humans use different brain circles for different kind of memories. What is tackled by "false memory"-studies is only one kind of a very specific memory-system, the explicit memory without emotional impact.
What is far more significant in everyone's life ist the effect of the implicit memory, all what we cant remember in outspoken details but what we have learned and remember in behavior, emotional settings, mindsets, and so on.
On this board, there was an account of an Yoga teacher who had been abused in various ways. I found her story to be authentic and moreover to be exemplaric for how the implicit memory works: her memories of the abuse had been split off first, but then she had these "reminders", flashbacks that resurfaced by smelling a certain smell or listening to certain noise. Moreover her constant fear and irritation and her limited behavioral options indicated to experiences she had to block out. It was only then when inner pictures emerged to tell what all those implicit clues were all about.