# Share a childhood memory - just for fun **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 5, 2020, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-a-childhood-memory-just-for-fun/851123 "2020-04-05T11:32:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 89
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-a-childhood-memory-just-for-fun/851123/89 "2020-04-17T01:39:04Z")
> [@Tibby](#): > > …The only problem is that my mother never drove a day in her life and there was no post office in our town matching my memory. Mom said it never happened, but the memory is so clear and not at all like a mis-remembered dream. I still can’t figure it out. It happened somewhere, maybe an alternate reality. I have memories like this, where once I dig up old facts I realize it could NOT have happened the way I clearly remember it. In fact, there’s a book “So Long, See You Tomorrow” that deals with this. A boy grows up with a memory of playing in a neighbor’s house under construction, with snowflakes falling. Goes back as an adult, and the homeowners are puzzled: “We built this house in the summer, construction was May to August.” Memories like these have gotten me to research the nature of how we store and retrieve memories. It’s not pulling a paper from a file cabinet, it’s more like sifting through a pile of scraps of paper and trying to reconstruct a memory. We pull scraps that someone has told us about, others from the wrong event, and some that our brains have just made up, for fun. Anyhow, my earliest memory is seeing Sinbad in the alternate ending to BIG. Watching it with Nelson Mandela, on his prison deathbed… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-a-childhood-memory-just-for-fun/851123)._