Exactly right. A really large percentage of people don't take care to stop and think about exactly how they "remember" something.

There are a number of ways. In one sort of memory, one will have a sharp visual image of a particular moment together with strong recollection of context -- where one was, who else was there if anyone, and other things important at the time.

In another, one has what seems a feeling of certainty and a definite direct recollection of the thing, but without so much connected memories to it. In still others, a person remembers having remembered a thing, or having thought about it, having made a decision about it, or just that it "was true" but not exactly why but some reason gets superimposed onto it. E.g, "I saw a video" though what actually happened was seeing a meme, and forgetting that but remembering the conclusion made from it.

For many people, most of their "memories" are of these later sorts, but they treat all these things as if they were the same. They are not.

I gave the OP credit for possibly being merely a victim of false memory due to unawareness of exactly how he "remembers," but he then quickly proved an anti-Q nine-day-account troll in any case

Exactly right. A really large percentage of people don't take care to stop and think about exactly how they "remember" something.

There are a number of ways. In one sort of memory, one will have a sharp visual image of a particular moment together with strong recollection of context -- where one was, who else was there if anyone, and other things important at the time.

In another, one has what seems a feeling of certainty and a definite direct recollection of the thing, but without so much connected memories to it. In still others, a person remembers having remembered a thing, or having thought about it, having made a decision about it, or just that it "was true" but not exactly why but some reason gets superimposed onto it. E.g, "I saw a video" though what actually happened was seeing a meme, and forgetting that but remembering the conclusion made from it.

For many people, many of their "memories" are of these lower-end-of-the-scale sorts.

I gave the OP credit for possibly being merely a victim of false memory due to unawareness of exactly how he "remembers," but he then quickly proved an anti-Q nine-day-account troll in any case

Exactly right. A really large percentage of people don't take care to stop and think about exactly how they "remember" something.

There are a number of ways. In one sort of memory, one will have a sharp visual image of a particular moment together with strong recollection of context -- where one was, who else was there if anyone, and other things important at the time.

In another, one has what seems a feeling of certainty and a definite direct recollection of the thing, but without so much connected memories to it. In still others, a person remembers having remembered a thing, or having thought about it, having made a decision about it, or just that it "was true" but not exactly why but some reason gets superimposed onto it. E.g, "I saw a video" though what actually happened was seeing a meme, and forgetting that but remembering the conclusion made from it.

For many people, many of their "memories" are of these later sorts.

I gave the OP credit for possibly being merely a victim of false memory due to unawareness of exactly how he "remembers," but he then quickly proved an anti-Q nine-day-account troll in any case

Exactly right. A really large percentage of people don't take care to stop and think about exactly how they "remember" something.

There are a number of ways. In one sort of memory, one will have a sharp visual image of a particular moment together with strong recollection of context -- where one was, who else was there if anyone, and other things important at the time.

In another, one has what seems a feeling of certainty and a definite direct recollection of the thing, but without so much connected memories to it. In still others, a person remembers having remembered a thing, or having thought about it, having made a decision about it, or just that it "was true" but not exactly why but some reason gets superimposed onto it. E.g, "I saw a video" though what actually happened was seeing a meme, and forgetting that but remembering the conclusion made from it.

For many people, most of their "memories" are of these later sorts.

I gave the OP credit for possibly being merely a victim of false memory due to unawareness of exactly how he "remembers," but he then quickly proved an anti-Q nine-day-account troll in any case

Exactly right. A really large percentage of people don't take care to stop and think about exactly how they "remember" something.

There are a number of ways. In one sort of memory, one will have a sharp visual image of a particular moment together with strong recollection of context -- where one was, who else was there if anyone, and other things important at the time.

In another, one has what seems a feeling of certainty and a definite direct recollection of the thing, but without so much connected memories to it. In still others, a person remembers having remembered a thing, or having thought about it, having made a decision about it, or just that it "was true" but not exactly why but some reason gets superimposed onto it. E.g, "I saw a video." For many people, most of their "memories" are of this sort.

I gave the OP credit for possibly being merely a victim of false memory due to unawareness of exactly how he "remembers," but he then quickly proved an anti-Q nine-day-account troll in any case

Exactly right.

A really large percentage of people don't take care to stop and think about exactly how they "remember" something.

There are a number of ways. In one sort of memory, one will have a sharp visual image of a particular moment together with strong recollection of context -- where one was, who else was there if anyone, other important things at the time.

In another, one has what seems a feeling of certainty and a definite direct recollection of the thing, but without so much connected memories to it.

In still others, a person remembers having remembered a thing, or having thought about it, having made a decision about it, or just that it "was true" but not exactly why but some reason gets superimposed onto it. E.g, "I saw a video." For many people, most of their "memories" are of this sort.