Does our imagination/memory get more complex the older we get?

Heres what I’m working off of here.

I can remember as a kid my gross out factor was pretty high. Say for instance you could talk to me about something like curdled milk sugest to me that I drink a whole glass of it or try to make me picture myself bathing in it or whatever. As a kid you could talk to me about this all day and you wouldn’t make me gag for a second.Not unless you actually exposed me to curdled milk then I would gag.

Now as an adult all you have to do is sugest these comments and I’m already starting to develope a lump in my throat.

Why?

Is it becuase over the years through past experiences I have been exposed to curdled milk (for whatever reasons) enough times that my brain can now more accurately give me a false sense that I’m actually being exposed to the curdled milk?

Btw I just use curdled milk/gross out factor as an example. This also branches off (for me anyway) into other stuff such as deams seeming more vivid ect.

People have varying degrees of memory capability. For some, they can remember events almost exactly as they happened, other people have a more selective memory. At one time, there was such a thing as a “photographic memory,” but that might have been debunked by now.

Also bear in mind that one gets more practice withstanding disgusting imagery as a kid. I don’t think the topic of chugging curdled milk comes up quite so much in the work breakroom as it does on a typical playground…