We don’t actually 'remember' the past; we just remember the last time we remembered it—meaning your favorite childhood memory is actually just a low-res photocopy of a photocopy.

Benaiah Smart (@B_Naiyah)

Human memory isn't a video recording stored on a hard drive; it’s a reconstructive process. Every time you recall an event, your brain rewrites the neural pathway. Over decades, you aren't recalling the original event anymore—you’re recalling the "save file" from the last time you thought about it, naturally adding or losing details along the way.

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