some memories are like reliving an event all over again. down to the last detail. like the feel of rough wood on my cheek. it seems it's always the bad ones that stay so vivid and clear. other memories get scattered and smeared in my mind. they are harder to put together. my short term memory is non existent. i can barely remember what i did yesterday. i don't question the vived ones but the others i can't be so sure about.

my memory does what you describe, my worst memories are the most vivid I wish they would disperse over several events maybe then I could trust... well anyway not important. Yes my memory does this. I don't trust it

pluck im like that all the time , if im tryin to repeat something , i get it mixed up back to front n upside down sometimes i give up for fear i makin it up , i think its a bp thing , sometimes i cant decide whether something really happened or i dreampt it , bit scarey really , just as well i dont go out much lol

I think you've done this forum before. :)

Wow...deja vu...I think I replied to this forum before.:)

To an extent, on the big facts...I do get confused though.

My memory isn't real good either. When I go to the hospital with a mager event I usually don't remember anything. My short term memory is the worst. My husband can say something and a couple minutes lagter I don't know what or if he said anything. And I have dreams that I don't always know if they are dreams.

I don't know how much of my memory to trust. There's things I remember that I'm not sure is real and then there's thing I'm told that I don't remember.

In my case it's a drug thing. What I remember I just treat as reality whether it happened or not.
That's why I get so upset at Johnny Depp for leaving crumbs in bed.

Pluck, you really opened up a can of worms between my ears. I have an awful memory but I am always so sure of what I think I remember.

But the problem is that anyone who was there also, brother, wife, son, dog, mite all disagree with me.

Just because you said it is enough for me, I must be doing this also all the time.

i have an excellent memory. vivid clear memories of places i've been, smells, the color of the lady's dress i met...especially from childhood. my family is in awe and knows i'm right--even if they don't remember.

BUT lately my days run together, and i have no idea what i did yesterday or last week, or has it already been a year??? i write little notes in my calendar, little triggers. partly to remember that when "i feel cured"...for weeks now, i can check to see that REALLY it's only been two days...thanks to the wonderful BP.

There's one time when I was in major risk..a couple of days before hospital.
I swear that something weird happened.Just an exchange of words..mainly abuse.So I didn't tell my brother..as they were his best friends at the time.
I am sure that they were in my face, right close and saying " Well, your brother's a C**t too!! " etc.Wanting me to fight them.
I told my brother yesterday.10 yrs after.I made it clear that I was very ill.BUT still sure that they had been giving him shit via me.
He asked me to tell him which friends..but I can't remember names.Just blurry features at a party.
Memory is weird now.
Remembers emotions rather than the clarity of events.

I don't trust my mind or my memory. The only thing that is real and tangible for me are photographs. Because if the picture was taken, then obviously it happened. This is how I can recall my life- through photo albums. My boyfriend takes LOTS of pictures.

you know rainflower when i look back at photos , i can recall whats been happenin , but the last 2 years i have hardly taken a picture n the last two years is the most depressed ive ever been before that i could tell you my life story in pictures , i look at them now n wonder how i ever done the thing ive done , or how i ever kept my house so tidy , or how i could have ever been bothered to put on so much makeup lol

I don't think I trust my memory. My short term memory is pretty bad. Memory of my childhood: some things I can remember with great clarity there are also years that I cannot recall.