I agree about me not knowing much about memory research. BUT, PLEASE STOP ASSUMING EVERYONES MEMORY IS AS BAD AS YOURS, OR THAT OUR MEMORIES ARE BAD AT ALL. It cant be healthy for you to feel so much pain and anguish about all of your memories. Have you considered therapy to help sort your memories and dreams from each other? I do not mean to be mean. I just get a feeling that you don't like what you remember of your life and if (IF) that is true, I'm sorry but you may not be able to sort out the past if you try it without help. If I am off base, I apologize. It is just that I have a sense that you are uncomfortable with yourself and I know that isn't good..... For you or anyone around you..

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Well if you say that then you don't know about memory research. Our memories are shockingly bad. If you invite a group of people to witness an event and then ask them to recount what happened a week later every person will give a different version. Not only are we useless at recording details but our minds will fabricate events that never happened to satisfy a need. We all carry false memories in our heads, and I do mean everyone, and we have no means to know which ones are correct, messed up or totally made up.

CDs searching their memories for events in their childhood are prime candidates for generating false memories. I am not saying a repressed memory is false but you need to be aware that there is a possibility it is. The only way to know for sure is to cross check it with others who were there, and that of course relies on their memories being good.