>>12751385Your memories are often tinged by the mood you had at a certain moment, so it's possible that you might feel like certain abnormal periods of your life didn't feel that "real".
Also, the more you try to remember something, the more you'll end up remembering not so much the original event, but rather what you remembered it being like last time you remembered it. As time goes on, memories often get mixed together with rumors, false beliefs, and odd interpretations that you might get from other people, or that you might piece together in an attempt to make your experiences consistent with your current beliefs.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190114082844.htm>when retrieving information about a visual object, the brain focuses first on the core meaning -- recovering the 'gist' -- and only afterwards recalls more specific details.https://elemental.medium.com/your-childhood-memories-are-probably-fake-b04741f39b1b> “I suspect that these fictional early memories are a byproduct of that updating process,” Kirwan added. “We learn something about our own infancy, or infancy in general, and later mistake that information for an actual episodic memory because of its episodic-like qualities.”