PogoPalOj- OMG YES!!!! I am 2 years out from my brain bleed. I didn't have a TBI- but I don't think that really matters- a brain injury is a brain injury. I too have this all the time and it drives me NUTS!!!! For example, we were at my favorite restaurant for french toast- Perkins. Now my hubby knows how much I like their french toast. So we are looking at the menu and I point to the french toast and say oh I'm going to get the pancakes- I caught myself and said oh I mean the french toast. Well when the waiter guy comes by I say I'll have the pancakes. When I got served pancakes I was shocked - I guess the guy could tell I thought something was wrong and the guy says- isn't that what you ordered? Honestly I couldn't remember- so I look at Bob and he says yes that is what you ordered. The guy leaves and I say to Bob I know I ordered french toast and then said oh I'm going to get the pancakes- I caught myself and said oh I mean the french toast. He said no honey you didn't say that- you only said that when you looked at the menu. I was so mad at myself for screwing it up! This happens all the time. I have gotten to the point that I HAVE to trust in Bob (we've been together for 30 years) and believe in him. This has taken a long time and sometimes I still have trouble with it. Our brains just want us to believe we are right all the time- and with our injured brain- it doesn't know how to tell the difference.
I'm sorry you are going thru this because (my motto) "It just sucks!!!"

I have that problem somewhat; I forget what I buy when it's on sale. For example I do a lot of crocheting with thread the thickness of sewing thread. Craft stores don't sell it because so few use it. When a store Does have it in, it costs 5 dollars a ball. There's a warehouse store ( if another store has a water leak and some things are ruined - the boxes are soaked, the things come to this store) that I visit once in a great while. I was there one day when they had this crochet cotton for 99 cents! They had it in 2 thicknesses , so I bought 3 in each size. (6 balls). A few days later I remembered this sale and thought "I have to get some of that thread". So off I go and get a bagful of it ! When I got home, I saw that I already had 6 balls , so I now have enough of this stuff to crochet for the rest of my life.

I also have a horrible time making decisions about 'big" things. I will tell Mark that I agree with him about this, then will change my mind and tell him I Never said I'd do something. He's gotten to a point where he actually writes down the issue ( like tearing out an exposed chimney out of the kitchen- I loved it, but could see that it should be torn down). We talk the issue over , and then I will write "I agree ( or disagree) that..." and we both sign the paper. He will always write the pros and cons of the decision, so I can be reminded of things because I invariably will mull the decision over and change my mind a hundred times. But when the time comes to do something, he will bring the paper back out and show me what we decided. We've only done this 2 or 3 times over big things, but I can see the worth in it. He's tired of my indecision, or the fact that I swear I Never agreed to something. ( I still cried when they took the chimney down, but now am glad they did ).

So I know what you're talking about. This writing "contracts" seems a bit extreme at times, but it's the only way to preserve sanity. I hope your "false memories" only pertain to small things, like me forgetting the oven cleaner yesterday. The bigger decisions that you don't remember deciding can be a much larger thing to deal with.

Yes, I have had similar scary memories like that. I am unsure if it is me overcompensating for my bad memory, but I can convice myself of memories that I made up.

I sometimes invent memories, not on purpose..... It is very difficult not being able to completely trust myself. Just another side effect that I am learning to cope with.

My husband does this often. At first I thought he was just out right lying to make himself look better. But now I wonder if he doesn't have memory gaps sometimes and then just fills in what he 'thinks' happens. Pretty soon he's convinced himself this is what actually happened and no one can tell him other wise. This gets hard when we are arguing and he starts to tell me made-up things that I have done or said. Soon enough he's convinced himself of the reality of these things and starts to get angry over imaginary memories! No matter how much I tell him something didn't happen he has it in his head it did.

It's nice to know there are other people out there that do this.