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

Factual Questions
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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.

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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.

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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…