Early Memories

Another earlier memory that I remember is when we went to Atlanta, GA nearly every single week for at least a year at most. I was about seven and went to see my sister that was in rehab at the time because she'd fallen in with the wrong crowd and sadly, she's still doing the same thing as an adult.
 
Another earlier memory that I remember is when we went to Atlanta, GA nearly every single week for at least a year at most. I was about seven and went to see my sister that was in rehab at the time because she'd fallen in with the wrong crowd and sadly, she's still doing the same thing as an adult.
Sorry to hear about your sister.
 
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Alfred Adler, the psychologist, had some early insights into dreams and memory. That was the school of thought I was trained in. I think it holds up very well.
Memory is creative just like thought.
If I asked you to recount 3 memories from your childhood, I can draw a scenario looks like your typical life.
Adler wanted to get around Freud 's dream life. I think he had had a very viable option. It works ,but a very deft hand is needed.
 
I have like 3 memories from when i was 2 when my grandmother took me in.

Then I have this memorie of (god?) Showing me my two sisters at a party when they were 2 an 3.
Wow ! Was this a vision, dream?
 
The point is you can make up memories out of whole cloth. And you can convince yourself that it is absolutely real.
It's something I think about and try to be wary of, though if my own mind is deceiving me then it may be impossible to tell reality from fiction. It's truly alarming if you really think about it, the idea that any detail from any memory may never really have happened and that to an extent we each have a writer living in our heads who narrates our pasts when we ask, but who uses artistic license without ever telling us when.
 
It's something I think about and try to be wary of, though if my own mind is deceiving me then it may be impossible to tell reality from fiction. It's truly alarming if you really think about it, the idea that any detail from any memory may never really have happened and that to an extent we each have a writer living in our heads who narrates our pasts when we ask, but who uses artistic license without ever telling us when.
The same writer can also override our perception of the present if we don't pay close attention.
 
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Ben just illuminated the scary part of Adler's creative memory idea.
He , Adler, came to the conclusion that not everyone can remember dreams, or accurately. But the 3 early memories technic can give a quick outline of what's going on below the surface of conscious thinking.

I'll use one of my earliest memories as an example. My grandparents came to visit from Denver. I was probably 3, early morning.
Dad had a gallon of Glidden paint at the bottom of the stairs. So, being the helper guy, I carried the can step by step up the stairs. I got to the top stair, and the can slipped and broke open.
Being 3 and not very bright, I ran down the stairs in my footie pajamas.Trying to get the paint back in the can.
Now out of nowhere, Grammy lifted me up and put me in the bathtub. Everybody had a good laugh and Grampy took a picture.

But Grampy didn't take a picture of my glorious latex painted footie pajamas toddlerhood. No, I filled in the blanks. Gramps always had a camera nearby, but not at this moment, and I can see him clear as a bell, taking a picture. And he didn't.
 
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