Do any of you deal with having false memories? Are people in my life just gaslighted me? I swear I vividly remember things happening and people around me are just as confident that it never happened. Do you deal with this? Why does this happen?
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I had a few, but it was before I was diagnosed.
Somebody told me a story once and I must have imagined it so vividly, a few years later I was convinced the story happened to me.
The other person assured me I wasn’t there when the event happened. They had to show me the place in question before I accepted my mistake. I’d imagined a completely different place.
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Yes as a kid I had strong memories of things that apparently just didn’t happen, like of family trips or plays I was taken to. When I found out they didn’t happen I was pretty confused. I’ve always wondered if they’re past life memories or something. Who knows. Memory is weird.
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I remember past lives. One where I was a doctor or a nurse. I could remember both their personalities, but not sure which of them I was. One where I was a brutal mob leader. One where I was a government super soldier. the violent lives definitely scare me in their memories.
This isn’t like remembering past lives. Sometimes it’s just little things, like conversations that were had or not had. It’s just so confusing. How can I ever trust myself?
I’ve had that on 1 episode of 5 and when I relapse the memories stick with me. I wasn’t so much a super solider but had been selected to take mind altering drugs. The drugs effected people depending on their personality, you turned into what would be described as an evil psychopath or a good psychopath. Some people killed themselves on them. I had the belief that these drugs were being used by both our military and recreation-ally by the enemy and were a closely guarded secret. The memories were very violent and I felt fear as I thought people were after me for where I’d been and what I had done. At the time I had such vivid memories.
I’ve had false memories and beliefs as well took me awhile to get over them.
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How do you get over them? Hour do you know which memories are real?
It takes time I study spiritual deception and realise that when a person is possessed they can experience false emotions like guilt and shame which connect with false memory’s I just ensure myself that these things never happend and I have nothing to worry about the enemy is within you need to find a way to defeat it.
Happens to me quite a bit with each psychotic episode. They are impossible to distinguish from real memories, except for how intense and outlandish they are, and in some cases were just completely impossible. It takes a lot of time to put them in the past, though they still stick with me to an extent; now I just recognize them for what they are.
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My first episode i would have dreams at night and the next day think it had happened the day before or prior to. This is common enough to have a name which I don’t remember, but a think norms do it a little on a smaller scale.
Oh my God, yes! I have two completely different sets of memories. I have no clue which is real (if either of them)