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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 ?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 :-).

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Imagine eating a lollipop that never existed

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!

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.

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

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. 😅

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.

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 😅

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

When I tell you this is one of my biggest fears

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

3:05 is the same reason why a football match that we know who wins doesn't give the same joy anymore.

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

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

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

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.

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

Schizophrenic people: _"Just like the simulations"_

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

Still, the best thing about memories is making them.

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

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.

0:24 me who has actually gotten lost in a mall: 👁👄👁

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

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😊!!!!

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

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.

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

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

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!!

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

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.

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

Talking about memories remind me that I only remember glimpse of my memories and some are completely lost.

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 🤠👍

Thank you for the existential crisis 🙏

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

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...

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.

"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

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

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...

This is why I have to make notes and posts with pics to help me know what memory of the subject is real or fake.

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

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

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)

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

2:52 this little joke had me laughing crazy, kudos to animators.

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

I also have a lot of vivid memories of some of my dreams, which makes it even harder to know which events from my memories actually happened @_@

One of my favourite examples is watching foreign movies with native language subtitles. I always remember that movie as being in English, with the actors speaking English and even recall quotes from the movie in English spoken with their voices, despite the fact they weren’t speaking English and I was just reading subtitles when I watched, but the memories of the movie are in English, not memories of the subtitles.

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

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…

I take a break in studying by watching these kinds of videos but a few hours later I end up looking up for more answers for my brain's questions instead of actually doing my homeworks

I really struggle finding certain things because of this, because the more I remember that thing, the more it distorts my memory

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

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

The BGM and Sound-Effect are amazing🙀

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. 🙂

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

I asked my friend a few days ago if he remembers a memory from kindergarden with me and he said that he wasn't even in the same kindergarden as me-

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.

I adore the illustrations in every video.