Why Would A Detailed Recollection Not Match The Emotional Memory Associate With It?
What would cause such a switch?
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"Memory" is fascinating. We can be very selective about what we remember. Details, as in activities, visual so on, are quite different than emotions. We can block out the parts we don't want to remember, & far more interesting, add what never happened at all. "Reconstructing" memories is quite common, & the many reasons would perhaps bore you to tears. I have NEVER seen this done with conscious intent. Yet I have seen a recollection transformed by the changing perceptions of a person, & their growing phases. Memory is a bit like dreams. In fact, dream journals visited are often the doors that open to clairty.
I've never heard of anything like that..
Your current life circumstances can lead you to associate one set of emotions with a detailed recollection, and your life circumstances at the time led to a different set of emotions.
For example, a man might remember being devastated at the news that he was going to be a father, but look back on it fondly because he loves his child.
The switch is the result changes in all the other things that affect your emotions including health, maturity, and experience.
Recording details through our senses and the abstract meanings/emotions we attach to them are two different things to me. The first can remain largely unchanged, but the latter is far more fluid simply because we constantly change the more we experience new things.
I think it would be due to your current perspective on that day. If you were really happy on that day but are very unhappy now. You may be generating negative feelings toward that memory because it is not something you can ever go back to and that makes you angry, depressed, whatever.
So, the emotions are more current than the memory itself. Because the emotions are how you feel about reliving the memory, not about how you felt during that memory.
Synaptic malfunction?
Preextisting trauma?
It is an association thing or thought pattern thing.
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