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Back to EpisodesYour Brain Is Rewriting Your Past: Can You Trust Your Memory?
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What if your memories are not recordings of the past… but stories your brain keeps rewriting?
In this episode of GL Deep Dives, we explore the strange and fascinating nature of human memory — and why what you remember may not be as reliable as it feels.
Every time we recall a memory, the brain can reshape it, update it, distort it, or fill in missing details. That means the past we carry inside us may be part truth, part reconstruction, and part emotion.
We explore:
• how memories are formed and stored
• why remembering is not the same as replaying
• how the brain edits memories over time
• why emotions can change what we think happened
• false memories and memory distortion
• and whether we can truly trust our own version of the past
Is memory a window into what really happened…
or is it a living story that changes every time we open it?
No dogma. Just honest talks and open minds.
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