Are all of your memories real? - Daniel L. Schacter

Dig into the psychology of how memories are susceptible to false information and why we shouldn’t treat them as truth.
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In a 1990’s study, participants recalled getting lost in a shopping mall as children. Some shared these memories in vivid detail, but there was one problem: none of these people had actually gotten lost in a mall. They produced these false memories after psychologists told them they’d gotten lost and parents confirmed it. So what’s going on? Daniel L. Schacter explores the fallibility of our memory.
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[@HellsDevilwildrift]

I watch these videos to try and fall asleep, I end up questioning my existence for 2 hours straight in bed.

[@Username-ym9tt]

Why aren't you famous yet

[@joserafaelpalomares8422]

Bruhh, it's only been an hour. What planet are you from lol

[@plarizedpinklemnz6964]

The fact that TED liked this shows that they approve of this lol

[@theresafushiguro3107]

SAMEEEEE but not 2 hours straight.

[@galacticbat5224]

Me: watching this past my bedtime

[@nii_t]

That's a very aggressive way to give someone a lollipop.

[@Asmaa_311]

Yeah.

[@BlueEyes-WhiteDrag0n]

Yeah.

[@licoricethecat]

Yeah.

[@Veda-eo8qe]

Yeah.

[@shambosaha9727]

Yeah.

[@whatislife4987]

Now imagine you are a lucid dreamer and you can't tell which memory was from your dream and which is real.

[@mikemagnus9447]

Stop making it worse!!

[@moltplayerjokers9863]

We share memories with other people though and they remember it too.But they don't remember some memories which we remember damn.

[@Sanppixel]

What are the two things that biases our memories according to the video?

[@whatislife4987]

I am able to lucid dream and I dream every single night. There were a couple of occasions, especially when I was a child, when i was very sure it was not a dream but a real memory. For example, I saw a housefly with a body bigger than a basketball when I was out playing near my house. Even right now as I am older, I can logically say that was a dream, but yet I can't fully get rid of the feeling it was actually real. Moral is: it's okay to rely on our memories a lot, but just remember that it's not foolproof 😄

[@Sanppixel]

@@whatislife4987 please reply According to the video how can one doctor become biased in his judgement?

[@manzoox]

Plot twist, their parents didn’t want to admit they lost their children at the mall 🤷‍♂️

[@chandrasekharchand6050]

Underrated comment

[@Sienisota]

Well, then there was a very active old man with a flannel shirt, saving all those kids by finding them... Santa Claus?

[@zr6735]

LMAOO

[@parasb6485]

The older I get , the more clearly I remember things that never happened ~Mark Twain

[@wernerhiemer406]

As clear as a whisky glass after gobbling down it's supposed content with a light swirl on the bottom. Or was it on the floor? (feeling tired even when far from London).

[@jadaabbygale4002]

Or did they?

[@nicodiangelo2040]

@@jadaabbygale4002 *VSauce music starts*

[@ghitaharkaty2310]

ouh good one

[@mattrogers5188]

According to the Quote Investigator, Twain make a similar remark, but it humorously conveyed the opposite idea: When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it. Later, "the things that happened" was somehow altered to "the things that _never_ happened." It isn't clear if Twain, his biographer, or someone else made the change.

[@mafiac_siriuslupin574]

My memories: 10% actual life 20% childhood headcanons 30% Anime plots and deaths 40% Ads

[@chengmonglee7499]

Yep

[@furyrage2502]

@@chengmonglee7499 But it's so true

[@oldcowbb]

everthing is headcanon

[@dataexpunged2827]

This traumatic suppressed memory was sponsored by *_RAID: Shadow Legends_*

[@megasonichunterramirez3231]

@@furyrage2502 no

[@saimanojnelavelli5911]

This takes 'My whole life was a lie' to next level

[@ameybirulkar7503]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@zhangao4530]

I had something similar: I was talking to my parents about that time when i was younger and was sitting on the back seat of my dad's bicycle during a ride and got my right ankle caught in the back-wheel's chain which was extremely painful that i cried out so much. I even remember how my dad reversed the bike to un-tangle the flesh caught in it and how i was sitting on the curb crying after taking off my socks and asking for a band-aid. I also remember how weeks later in kindergarden when we were going to our mid-day nap a teacher asked me about that scab on my ankle when i was walking to my bed in slippers. I even recall later on one morning when my dad took me to the kindergarden nurse and how much it stung when she was applying anti-septic solutions on the scab. Then my parents said that it actually happened on my brother, not me. I was so astonished.

[@cloudberry7241]

Even after you learned, do you still remember like that?

[@zhangao4530]

@@cloudberry7241 Yes I still do! The memories are still so real to change, there's so much detail, even the clicking sound of the bike chains when it was reversing. Its stored in my memory in a First Person perspective so I still can't fully accept it being fake, plus I wasn't with my brother on that day and he's 3 years older than me, so where did the kindergarten details come from? I guess I'll never know.

[@DC-zh5qs]

What if your parents are having false memory😂.

[@cloudberry7241]

@@DC-zh5qs Ahaha..

[@cloudberry7241]

@@zhangao4530 If you were child, it may have affected more maybe. I just lived something like that recently. We have been in a cafe with my sister and mom and they had told me something they had lived in that cafe i guess, then i remembered it like i lived it totally recently and told them i was there too, which was wrong..

[@captainmesencephalon7043]

It is scary how past exists only in our memories and even a part of it might not be true. Really poses the question if the past really happened or not ?

[@__rabi3]

If you’re young enough, part of it can exist in memory cards and hard disk storages

[@Catticus]

I mean technically nothing could be real and everything could be a lie but I guess of this is our reality we might as well live it

[@niald7605]

This sounds like a reference to 1984

[@OverskilLFull]

last thursdayism..

[@jana31415]

The universe was created last thursday

[@Tranquility._]

Me: why are some of my memories fake Brain: Understandable, have a good day

[@user-cg9bt2gp6s]

Osman Aden Nobody: Teacher(gives a homework) My brain: (re-create) Me:F-

[@campkira]

people choice to remember something they like... trust me... alot of people try to play long game since they think people would forgot.. i don't.... since i keep all their message...

[@gjk-arts5855]

니기루 was it 1887? No no I remmeber it being 1776 WAIT WHAT IT WAS 1736

[@sammythehamster9093]

Lucid dreams and rpgs.

[@Furendz]

@@sammythehamster9093 yup

[@arielgharsi]

this is why it’s so important to journal once in awhile your thoughts/opinions and feelings during different periods in your life. so when you look back you can activity see what was going on and what you were thinking at any given moment.

[@snoopy9034]

I’ve always been a maladaptive daydreamer and i find myself with this question a lot. I know that I’ve imagined so many things throughout my life that i often struggle to remember and distinguish between what actually happened and what I imagined.

[@loveyourself9017]

I know what you mean .. totally .. i have to keep my daydreaming in check so that I don't actually lose track of reality lol ( ahem ahem ..inception ..if you know you know) .. But my daydreaming episodes are so much more fun than reality it's kinda sad .. so even i get confused on what actually happened when it happened and which details to trust

[@ameybirulkar7503]

Same here. Even though I haven't lost the track of reality, that's because of my family members or friends. I daydream when I'm alone.

[@shay...5178]

oh my god me too, i always find that when i’m imagining things i can feel the actual emotions that i would feel if it was happening and when i came back to ‘reality’ i would be so confused as to why it wasnt happening

[@daydream9640]

same i experience this too

[@Termsofseve]

Test subject: “I never got lost in a mall!” Psychologist & their parents: “You did.” Test subject: “I did.” hm

[@Veriox22]

This reminds me of the lego doctor meme.

[@benjaminmadrigal2328]

The thing here is, that last part would be more like: Psychologist & their parents: "You did". Test subject: "I did, and here's how that happened with various specific details".

[@habungsanda8174]

............ Psychologist & their parents: "No you didn't."

[@sasmitasatapathy9645]

@@benjaminmadrigal2328 yeah true

[@johanvajse8410]

expect that only 25% said they did that would mean this is not the normal and the study didn't prove anything Even if it was 50%, it wouldn't prove anything cuz that's chance. This whole video became nonsense after they tried to pass that off as facts.

[@rayna463]

Someone told me once that everytime you have a memory, you are actually remembering the last time you remembered it- not the moment itself. So overtime they can slowly morph

[@JKARAZMOJML]

I heard that too and it scares me

[@mattrogers5188]

Studies have shown that memories can be lost over time, but later they can reappear. This would be pretty unlikely if we were remembering our last memory and not the event itself

[@jillzord]

@@mattrogers5188 maybe both can happen...

[@helentee9863]

It doesn't work quite like that. We have 2 types of memory, short term and long term. To transfer a memory from short term (those recent memories that will soon be forgotten, such as what you ate for supper 10 days ago)to your long term memory, the great film you saw ten days ago ,you have to re remember/live it. And not just the once,because the more times you re remember, the more that memory becomes encoded into your brain, and the longer it will last. That's a main part of why repetitive learning actually works, no matter how down on it many people are today

[@cristian-bull]

that's why when I want to remember a dream, I try to "wake up slowly" and recall the details again and again. I feel like copy/pasting memories from ram to hard disk xD I know most people can remember dreams without any effort, but I can't, and this is what works for me.

[@jeijei157]

Had a fake memory buried in me. Growing up, I've always thought that my parents and I went on a mountain hiking. Until I brought it up with my mom 10 years later, she said we never did a mountain hiking because there are no near mountain in our hometown. It was so vivid that I can still imagine it.

[@zeldafan4727]

same except in mine it was snowing

[@standasebek5033]

I have a great childhood memory (about 10yo) of reading one of my first fantasy books. It has a specific scene - a shipwreck on a stormy sea. I was reading it during a rainy vacation in a camp by the lake. I was on a porch and it was pouring all around me. Some raindrops even fell on the pages and I thought - this moment complements this book very nicely. It is very vivid memory and great reading experience. Twenty years after that I look at the book again and found out that it was first published about two years after that vacation :-).

[@weneedmoreconsideratepeopl4006]

HOLYYYY... maybe it was a different publishing company? maybe it's the mandela effect? maybe you time / dimension traveled if that's even possible??

[@basedcat2349]

Whaaaaat dam

[@greatmusic142]

@@weneedmoreconsideratepeopl4006 stop with ur bs bro, no such thing as a mandela effect, people just have bad memories

[@official-obama]

@@greatmusic142 yeah there is, the mandela effect is just bad memory

[@roshif3155]

Damn, I think I can't even trust myself anymore these days...

[@annacarrillo7405]

relatable

[@ThapeloMKT]

You should watch/read about magic trick, or watch the National Geographic show Brain Games, that will destroy your trust in your own judgement.

[@mikemagnus9447]

@@ThapeloMKT HAH!! That's so true... _Mommy?_

[@allysanhelgracerebolanan2387]

same🤣

[@airishviscara2326]

i am having an inner conflict now

[@Novasium]

Now *this* is an interesting topic I'd like school to talk about.

[@David-zi9nr]

If you have a good teacher, you should ask them questions like this whenever it seems reasonable.

[@chengmonglee7499]

Yep

[@popcornthebunny7186]

It is because there is no reason why these memories are created. Students would be disappointed and the teacher would waste her time.

[@TheOmnipresentEmu]

We discussed this very topic in psychology

[@soothingstationW]

Ikr rather than talking about why mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

[@superangel027]

My family treated me poorly when I was younger and I’ve always had memories where I felt so alienated and I grew up holding that grudge and pain and felt unworthy and now they tell me when I open up to them that none of those emotional abuse happened. Now I can’t come to terms with my past confused as to what had happened and how i really felt.

[@nishkakumar8193]

If all experiences have the same theme then it might be true. There are sadly parents who emotionally manipulate their children. Your experiences might actually have happened.

[@helentee9863]

It's possible to feel alienated even if they didn't mistreat you. They may have simply been too busy with the other stuff in their lives to notice how unhappy/struggling with school/lacking in friends you were. In fact THEY may have been struggling at the time, perhaps with their relationship, and either have chosen to forget that bad time ,or still feel to ashamed to admit it to you . Parents are just as prone to mistakes and failures as anything one, even though, when we are children they seem to know everything. I think your only answer is to perhaps have counselling, and learn to accept your childhood pain. Then you might find it possible to forgive them,even if you are only forgiving them for not understanding you. In holding on to that bewildered child you hurt yourself. l know, l'v been there.

[@tracyOzz33]

It's Trauma you carry the more you talk about it the better understanding you have to cope. Don't let anyone tell you you shouldn't and didn't feel the way you did. You are not alone. They will never understand what they put you through, but im glad you let them know. That's strong of you🙏💪 Sorry you are going through this.. you are not alone ❤🌻.

[@bringmesomeavocados]

I am trying to cope with the same situation. More power to you. I Pray we can both overcome this 🖤

[@Sienisota]

Same. One of my parents and a sibling have some very different memories than me and my other parent. I know at least one thing I remember is true, because I found a photo that supports my "narrative". However, when I showed that photo to my sibling, they insisted it was an isolated incident, and only happened that one time. If you can't afford a licensed, professional therapist... I really recommend getting some distance when family tries to gaslight you like that. If your family makes you feel unworthy for how you feel about your childhood... That isn't a kind of family you need to stay in contact with. It's not healthy. The family you are born into is a starter pack. You can make a better one out of friends. Love isn't always enough, respect needs to be earned (even parents need to earn it first!) and respect can be lost. And it's alright to let go. I hope you are well❤

[@arcanine_enjoyer]

sometimes I'd have dreams of random, obscure things, then they happen from hours to weeks to even years later. I like to think that my brain is really good at guessing things will happen because of the infinite possibilities and how much patterns are in my daily life

[@CowieThomas1997]

The brain recieves 100% of the environment all the time but only consciously processes a very small amount of it during the day. Everything we dream is what we really experienced but didnt process in the event. That's why at night we remember more. Dreams are memories randomly activating in a sequence so that we can make sense of the day.

[@scarlettassassinator6192]

TED-ED: Are all your memories real? Me(at 3 am): I don't need sleep, I need answers.

[@malloryhowarth9905]

Me 😭😭😭

[@basedcat2349]

Ong 😭

[@mistertea603]

Me: *sees the title* Me: Oh sure TED Talks, give me an existential crisis why don'tcha?

[@mub9974]

Sonal Mohrir bruh there’s a Ted talk

[@mistertea603]

@Prabath Hemachandra well, I'm glad that you got something good out of this...

[@husainzuhairzuhan7268]

“The more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes” -Vladimir Nabokov

[@bigboomer1013]

Now imagine having your parents use this as an excuse that they never mistreated you and that you only imaginend them abusing you and have it as a false memory

[@giarichardson7367]

Lol you mean gaslighting ????

[@thesexybatman263]

"How can our memories be real if our eyes aren't real." -Jayden Smith, probably.

[@claev3]

Lol

[@unknown81000]

Oh Franku * Inhales * *ORE WA O CHINCHIN GA DAISUKI NAN DAYOU*

[@ibrahimalfatih6059]

That's deep tho...and yes I'm 14 😂😂😂

[@RiverCola07]

@@ibrahimalfatih6059 I'm sorry pls don't do r/ihavereddit on me... But r/im14andthisisdeep

[@ibaliderpface421]

*Nothing good comes out of being human* *-bear grylls probably*

[@jainamhandleisntavavailable]

Imagine eating a lollipop that never existed

[@thenailsageofgeo4975]

Hey, all the flavor with no calories

[@naedaaah]

fr this happened to me 🥴

[@allysanhelgracerebolanan2387]

@A D. lmaooooo

[@rerikm]

I member

[@noodlesnook]

The Nailsage Of Geo ayyy! fellow hollow knight fan!

[@Curly_Queen_Bee]

Can you guys talk about suppressed memories? I had one and it was an odd experience. A term with someone’s name triggered the memory and it caught me off guard. I like how you guys explain things. Keep up the great work!

[@thaisfernandes9266]

I have a really detailed memory about my friends confessing their feelings to each other at school, during a truth or dare game. When they said they actually did it through text messages during summer vacations, I got really confused. I still don't know what happened to me to get this fake memory.

[@DyslexicMitochondria]

Wait so you're telling me aliens abducting me and probing me is a fake memory??

[@sterlingarcher8041]

hey brooooo i watch your channel glad to see you here

[@perpendicularuniverse5223]

Yeasss

[@rds7696]

hmmmmmmm, probing

[@Catticus]

Yep cause they probably don't exist

[@themarvellouschannel3032]

@@Catticus "they probably don't exist"hmm...🤔

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

You know, 2020 would be the year I learn that all my memories are fake and I've actually been living in some kind of VR game this whole time. 😅

[@David.d.d.d]

Take the headset off Avery, your family is waiting.

[@crazyformyself8375]

@@David.d.d.d I've always had this thought that we're actually in a coma or sumn, and when you hear someone call your name but actually no one did, its your loved ones talking to you to wake up in your actual reality; idk i just have this feeling

[@oracle372]

crazy for myself 9 second old comment wtf Edit: ur comment is a cool concept but that’s also weird. But I had that thought many times when I was a 4 year old dunno why

[@happyliferay]

Lol the current VR technology is far from this real...

[@annacarrillo7405]

fr

[@misspinkpunkykat]

I used to have these very vivid dreams when I was three to four years old. In the dream I would ask people if I was dreaming. Sometimes in real life I would ask real life people if I was dreaming and for a while I didn't know the difference between reality and a dream.

[@halloooo1duuuuu]

Hypothesis: One quarter of the participants remembered an event that has never happened. Counter hypothesis: The event of getting lost happened. One quarter of the parents forgot or did not admit.

[@elliegrace7595]

When I tell you this is one of my biggest fears

[@Laughing_Cat_Meme]

🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️

[@glorysky1998]

What's worse than having fake memories? Knowing you have fake memories that nobody has related to until now ;-;

[@no-zt2qm]

yes and i think that throws me off and gets me in a bad situation.. so i try to act what i did out and see if i remember it clearly and if i don’t, it probably never happened. u should try that!!

[@DNotefan]

Sounds like some psychological horror movie

[@samsonb9092]

Oh man I'm so glad yall made this because I've been having some moments where it seriously feels like I'm skipping into alternate timelines and it's really nice to know that I'm not just going crazy 😅

[@dobykim4414]

Is anyone saying how at 2:59 and through the whole video the music is super captivating? Compliments to the composer, and as a beginner I hope to one day reach this level of mood-creating

[@SMAT-gc3yl]

Me thinking that I studied for a test Reality:False Memories

[@braineaterzombie3981]

In exam question appears My memory- its B Reality- its A Thats why you need to revise more and more

[@xeno4162]

OKAY

[@zack7122]

stan twice

[@ahmaddeedatibrahim6631]

That's why understanding and reasoning trumps memory.

[@AdityaRaj-hp8tn]

@@ahmaddeedatibrahim6631 agreed but memory outspeeds understanding and reasoning

[@mattrogers5188]

@@ahmaddeedatibrahim6631 I try to memorize but also think through everything till I completely understand it. I even elaborate by proposing my own ideas. The thought process helps me to remember.

[@dianaesaian]

The human mind is indeed a fascinating phenomenon to explore! Thank you very much for the video! I have not thought about the nature of our memory recollections, but the video made me realize that sometimes my current opinion and experience really biases the memory of the past. I realized that I have actually experienced the processes described in the video.

[@zarinaa1135]

My mom helped with the study talked about at the beginning of the video! She's told me about it many times, and it's interesting every time. I'm glad Ted is letting more people know about it. Also that she is slightly in Ted Ed video is awesome!

[@parasb6485]

I Don't know why , but when I try to recall my hikings I always recreate them as drone shots in my mind even though I haven't seen that before

[@zylnexxd842]

My 90 percent dreams are drone shots. Even the fos dreams have a few drone shots

[@wandarichardson4213]

False memories are what the "Mandela Effect" is all about.

[@ivanttosuckyourblood]

Mengele effect

[@jackanderson313]

@@ivanttosuckyourblood what

[@saminhaque13-52]

@@jackanderson313 Joseph Mengele, the Angel of Death

[@jackanderson313]

@@saminhaque13-52 i just search his name his a natzi doctor Right ?

[@windadewiyani]

Yos

[@dynamosaurusimperious6341]

I always love learning from this channel,because like most,it makes me happy (accordingly of the time.)

[@lzza6095]

2:28 "Our current opinions, feelings, and experiences can bias our memories of how we felt in the past"

[@mugglepotato]

I sometimes recall vague "memories" that I can't tell whether I actually experienced or saw in a dream

[@HASPortraits]

Saaaame

[@minaalsalman6943]

SAME!!!!!

[@saumyashree4926]

I want my memory to forget all the incident happened in 2020 🥺

[@kul.vedant]

Shows how temporary our thoughts, memories and emotions are. You can change them with some courage and conviction. You are happy and no matter what nothing can disturb you, just know this!

[@user-ii6sw5os2k]

Love this video. I've always been having problems with my memories. When I was in senior high I talk to my friend about something that we did not long ago but she said "What are you talking about?" I can only remember few of my memories during my grade and high school so everytime I remember something, my brain keep saying it didn't happen but it felt so real I'd contemplate about it.

[@SteveVi0lence]

"The more and more you try to hold onto it, the further you push it away"

[@aminblm_german]

Still, the best thing about memories is making them.

[@juniorlks1]

I moved from my old house to this current one in january 2003, I was 9 at the time. I have clear memories of watching the "Bring me to life by Evanescence" and "Toxic by Britney Spears" music videos in my old bedroom, even though that's impossible since they were released later on 2003 and 2004, respectively. To this day I still can't get over the fact that those memories are fake, they are SO clear in my head. It bothers me to know that many other childhood memories I have might also be fake or somehow altered.

[@owenlaurencemarzan8545]

Maybe its 2004 or 2005 were the time you listen to the music in the same place. But because its the same place were you're 9 you'll assume that you listened to the music in year 2003

[@Nick-dx2pt]

I'm a lucid dreamer and sometimes I mix my dreams with reality especially if the dream is related to people close to me

[@azhakabad4229]

Ted Ed: Are all of your memories real? Me:Yeah! I didn't download my memories from chrome.

[@ShauryaSingh-ts2oc]

People: How many animation styles can you make? TedEd: *YES*

[@jer103]

This kind of explains why people believe fake news. Also, people want to go with the flow, rather than stand out. So, a person will lie than rather feeling uncomfortable or like an outsider

[@Karan-os5dr]

So amazing how the mind is so powerful, yet memories like this (ones that never happened bring people into despair)

[@spmagic9083]

The animation always fits the context. In every video it changes, it fits the video. It fits the theme, it fits the ideas. The animation is just so good and intuitive. Reminds me of a show called Avatar.

[@toneriggz]

This is exactly what I needed after watching I'm Thinking of Ending Things.

[@ankkitmahato]

Tell me about it! 😅

[@kenyontwing1027]

What a movie...

[@george9371]

have you tried therapy? Are you ok?

[@toneriggz]

George Therapy after watching a film?

[@sewerratwithinternetaccess5694]

that movie was a roller coaster ride man

[@ishangangwani3429]

Hats off to the background music, It really brings goosebumps to the video...

[@aimcreativestudios2720]

Hats off to the background music, It really brings goosebumps to the video... Thanks! :) It was composed by André Aires, our Sound Director. Check more at aimcreativestudios.com

[@taaaaaati7252]

Ever since I was very little I’ve had this memory, of my dad telling me something while we were at the living room. I remember every single detail and it is one of these mementoes that has come to my mind multiple times during my life. I’ve told my dad about it for years and he doesn’t remember, and actually what he told me was pretty nonsense, I just KNOW it happened, but after seeing this video I’m kinda confused

[@JustADioWhosAHeroForFun]

Schizophrenic people: _"Just like the simulations"_

[@YamenNazer]

How did you write in ITALIC font sir

[@omarsabry9489]

@@YamenNazer _Maybe, like this_ Add _ before and after

[@alexniggins1799]

@@YamenNazer __Like this__ (Just put an _ sign before and after the part of the comment you want italicized.)

[@melontusk7358]

People with anxieties: _"Sector's clear"_ A few microseconds later: *"Sector's not clear"*

[@toso7050]

this man is really the new Justin Y.

[@yashjadhavyj.500subscriber6]

Memories Are Basically Things That You Remember By Seeing Stuff Some Memories Are Lost Because There Maybe Too Much Memories Inside You.However Fake Memories Are Like Hearing Fake Stuff,Another Fake Memories Is That You Hear Something True And You Get A Memory However You Don’t See The Memory With Your Eyes So It Does Not Count As A Memory.Amazing Video Shows The Ways Fake Memory’s Happen😊!!!!

[@annarose3354]

I know for a fact that unfortunately people are even more suggestible when they are traumatized. Brains often completely hide traumatic memories until a person makes a huge effort to get them back. And I've also caught myself creating false memories based on how I feel on a particular day, only to have the real ones that actually make sense reveal themselves the day afterwards. SO frustrating.

[@karimah8687]

I didn’t think this was even a thing unless someone was brain washed or if an event happened when someone was very young. Learn something new every day from this channel.

[@onomatopoeia300]

Thank you for the existential crisis 🙏

[@thaddeuscramer2312]

This is super interesting! I accidentally learned about this from a very early age, because I had memories when I was very little from when I was even younger that were completely impossible like flying and going to an indoor play place where they had live monsters chained down to the floor. I was maybe like 6 or 7 and I remembered these happening when I was 3 or 4 and I think I was vaguely aware these weren’t things that could really happen, but I wasn’t quite sure and was confused, so at some point I asked my parents and they told me it was probably a dream I was remembering, but for years and even now looking back, the experiences feel indistinguishable from any other memory, except for the fact that I know those things couldn’t have possibly actually occurred. To add to the confusion, even now I have a lot of dreams that are almost realistic save for one off detail like flying or having a pet I’ve never owned, and often times the dream will include a vague sense that this was something I’d dreamt about or experienced before and somehow forgotten and just remembered again. Anyway, stuff like that can usually be distinguished by obviously provable things that couldn’t be true, but I wonder how many more have been about things that were completely inane and believable enough that there was simply no reason to bother questioning it, so it just became a fact to me.

[@8ByteBrian]

This is why I’m glad I’ve kept diaries & journals that date back over 35 years. This way I don’t have to guess if certain memories are true or not. I constantly write things down & re-remember certain memories to objectively analyze the for errors, so I know I can trust my memories. I also have a partial photographic memory which helps a lot too. A good way to tell if a memory is “real” or not is if you feel a sensation like a synapse firing in your brain, when you associate an object, or other stimulus to a memory. The brain remembers sensors like this, as it is a part of the brain evolved to protect us from danger, to either repeat or not repeat certain action. Therefore in most cases this “feeling” can be relied upon. Always look back on your memories, just make sure to leave those “rose tinted glasses” on the coffee table where they belong. 🙂

[@Mary-J-OK]

I've also been writing everything down for the past 38 years and have a partial photographic memory. I often wonder if the two are somehow connected. Maybe through the process of recording information, we have trained our brains to remember this data!

[@RenBuffen]

I have a condition, my memories never go away, I remember everything since I was a toddler, meals, date times, every conversation, names, classes, books, etc.. Nothing goes away, it's a nightmare!!

[@Shazistic]

Mistakes teach you important lessons, Everytime you encounter one, you’ve a step closer to your goal. -The Shades

[@tevin3949]

I always feel like cramming these videos to impress others with my new knowledge

[@ahmermirza]

This is the story of my life, but man is it the truth and absolutely nuts at the same time!!

[@oliversphotolife6581]

The BGM and Sound-Effect are amazing🙀

[@Shimada.]

This is literally "trust no one, not even yourself"

[@honeyoreo7344]

I think the reason this happens is because our brains are so good at picturing and imagining things that when ppl especially parents or family member tells u something happened your brain imagines what there telling u so well that u actually believes it even if it was true or not

[@gwydionelliott211]

Gorgeously animated 👏🏼

[@LewisSerex]

The way you feel. Or theperspective you have in the moment, covers your memory (which is often just an image, or maybe even a sense of the situation, like emotions .. but these senses can be overwritten by the way you currently feel)

[@Wirus1337]

I’ve always had a memory of a teddy bear I lost when we were moving houses as a kid, I even remember where I looked to find it, though I could not. I had a drawing of that teddy bear and apparently no one in my family has memory of that teddy bear even though I have talked about it all my life, I made a memory of a picture and I have always thought it was real, got shocked when my mom told me…

[@ratnagourav293]

"The more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it" Can anyone elaborate this quote....

[@freezepaladin]

This is how I interpret it, the more you love a particular memory of yours the more you mix in favourable things into that particular memory. In the end, you simply believe that that particular memory is real because you have repetitively tried to keep or recall that memory without filtering the fake from truth it becomes so vivid.

[@ratnagourav293]

@@freezepaladin your answer make sense 👍👍 glad to hear it...

[@fucktardiness]

My memories are weird I actually remember this and I really love it . I was in my grandpa's car when I was either 4 or 5 ,he took me and grandma to a desert there was a small house and the sky was so blue

[@simranpoonia8801]

Sounds so nice i hope its a true memory

[@gemmm3645]

The fact that I always thought I did get lost because my sister was playing hide and seek with me and some lady did something. My mind is blown, thanks TedEd you're the best 🤠👍

[@MarvelGeek]

Ted ed: not all of your memories are real My brain: understandable, have a nice day

[@saumyashree4926]

Ted : " Are all your memory real ?" Me : " I have a doubt on my own" 😅😅

[@gourisree9991]

Lol

[@sammythehamster9093]

Sometimes I get memories confused with lucid dreams especially when it comes collecting the past. Those with invoke strong emotions have strongest memories but not happy ones. So when when we die, we bring only our experiences. Much of my experiences are of video games. Interesting videos. Media and people can implant memories.

[@tasnuvakhandakar9359]

Thx for making me question EVERYTHING

[@KrishnaYogini]

"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment followsanother one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever. 'When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in a bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "so it goes."' And so on." " 'Where am I?' said Billy Pilgrim. 'Trapped in another blob of amber, Mr. Pilgrim. We are where we have to be just now- three hundred million miles from Earth, bound for a time warp which will get us to Tralfamadore in hours rather than centuries.' 'How-how did I get here?' 'It would take another Earthling to explain it to you. Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided. I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.' 'You sound to me as though you don't believe in free will,' said Billy Pilgrim. 'If I hadn't spent so much time studying Earthlings,' said the Tralfamadorian, 'I wouldn't have any idea what was meant by "free will." I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will.' " - Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut #JusticeForSushantSinghRajput #JusticeForOurPhoton

[@GutiTheJ]

Thanks

[@perpendicularuniverse5223]

Interesting

[@_pollux7696]

Einstein said that there is only present.

[@KrishnaYogini]

@@_pollux7696 What isn't true, and what's not false? Everyone's right in their own ways, and then there's the truth, absurd and beautiful. It depends on how you see it, perspective is the only thing that matters, dear. Yeah, it might be true, if there's a truth, there might only be the present, but wouldn't it be interesting if it was the other way??? It's all in the ways of seeing, and therein lies the ways of being.... #JusticeForSushant

[@_pollux7696]

@@KrishnaYogini my perspective is that it make sence to cry for the death of someone you held dear, because you don't care they died, you care about the fact that you will never see them again

[@rattled1557]

makes me think about the False Memory Syndrome that occurs in sci-fi novel called Recursion

[@hagerahmed5540]

I adore the illustrations in every video.

[@sweetness1992]

Man I love your channel and educational channel period

[@mihirjoshi8296]

After the Accident - Doctor- Do you know me? Me- I don't believe on memories...

[@saumyashree4926]

I love my memory that it didn't forgot the first day I found Ted-Ed 😌

[@randommarble]

As someone who remembers lots of irrelevant things that happened in life, I am now concerned half of my memories might be false and kind of affected by the fact that I will never know how many are actually fake, but even more worried and curious about whether the past really matters today

[@ameybirulkar7503]

If you remember movies or songs you heard, then the memories are true. Plus old photos and your family members/friends may help.

[@dinopharis2876]

I searched for this video because I remember almost every event in my life I'm 54 years old and I remember as far back as my crib at about 8 or 9 months old. I remember my first birthday, people that my mother knew when I was a toddler, when I told her all the names of the people years ago she was astonished. But recently I have been weaning myself off of a pill for nerve pain called gabapentin / neurontin which I think affects the central nervous system. For the past several months I started having little memories of a complete different life and reality and it's kind of scary. They are memories that last about 30 seconds but I feel the memory more than I relive it in my mind it's a very very strange.

[@nacaurel]

Just when I’m having an existential crisis, Ted-ed suddenly asked me this question. Great.

[@jahnavirishikesh448]

Me: trying to sleep Ted ed: "How much of what we see are hallucinations?" "How many of our memories are real?" Me: ...

[@pinkymermaid9967]

My big sister's ex boyfriend has been suffering from confabulation disorder. He used many kinds of false infos and it overwhelmed my sister.

[@nikknight]

I feel like this is why it's so easy to be gaslit. We KNOW we can't always rely on our memories, so we sometimes lean on others' memories to supplement ours. Though sometimes we are lied to...

[@feelesh]

I have often questioned memory and am amazed by how often my daughters have a recollection of events that is different from mine, but their memories are consistent with each other. Is this perspective? Or have they discussed an event and hence created a 'new' memory? Or are we all wrong? Before my father died of Alzheimer's, many people commented on how his short term memory was poor, yet he appeared to have a clear memory of events from his childhood. I was sceptical about the old memories. Yes, the places and people were real, but there wasn't any way of determining the accuracy of the actual memory. Maybe those memories were false. We'll never know.

[@paritoshjha28]

"Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's event" - Albert Einstein

[@alohamora2.050]

i had a bad childhood, and when i moved out from my home, i made myself some good memories , and i keep telling people my good made up memory , it kinda worked for me.... i have no regrets, and sometimes i forget that i had this past...

[@UndatedTundra]

Do you guys have a podcast or something? Because I would loove that! Keep up being coool!