I don't know if it's a neurological quirk, or something I acquired over years of reading about the sort of things listed in the RealLife section if this entry, but YourObedientSerpent is ''keenly aware'' of how malleable memory can be. As a result, whenever someone ask me about a specific incident, my response is almost always full of phrases like "I ''think'' I remember it happening like this, but I'm not sure" and "I don't remember if I noticed that thing at the time, or not. I noticed it/someone told me about it ''afterwards'', and I may have just plugged it into the memory."

This, of course, makes me sound like a complete flake, because I'm not willing to fake confidence in an unreliable medium (my own brain-meats). Maybe this contributes to the AbsentMindedProfessor trope -- ''nobody'' remembers things clearly, but TheProfessor ''knows'' he's not remembering clearly.

This Troper subverts this trope. He remembers an episode of SpongebobSquarepants where the plot involves a piece of paper. It exists, it's just paired with a HolidayEpisode, that's why it hasn't aired a lot lately.

This Troper always says : As far as I recall when describing something. Its the closest thing he can get.

This troper remembered his first game being Doom, and his parents confirm this, but after playing Doom and noticing some differences, he realized that the game he ''remembered'' playing wasn't Doom at all. It later turned out to be Blood, and once he found it, he had a nostalgiagasm.

I'd also like to say that it's slightly disturbing that "false memories" has a troper tales page but at least there's not much here.

This troper may have one, he picked up what he thought was Quest64 from a Hollywood Video when he was 7 or 8. When he played, however, he played a game that had realistic (at the time) graphics, confusing RPG controls, and some story about a king being poisoned and the first enemy being a rat in the forest. The controls were similar to an RPG, were in 3rd person, and this troper was so frustrated trying to find an attack button he turned off the console and got his mother to bring it back. Fast forward about 10 years later when this troper looks up Quest64 and sees the screen shots. This troper was unable to find anything resembling the game he may have picked up and is unsure if it even existed.

For a long time, this tropette remembered playing a game that involved a beach, Disney characters,and a guy with spiky hair. For a long time, I wasn't even sure if it existed. Cut to a couple of years later, when I discovered it was Kingdom Hearts. This was only because her sister mentioned it. If she hadn't....well, I think I'd probably think it was a fake memory.

This troper remembers wearing a some sort of cast back when he was very young, later replacing the cast with a bandage. He also remembers the hospital he was in when it happen. But it turned out that the aforementioned memory was false after his parents deconfirmed it, and the hospital that he remembered was actually the location of his birth.

This troper has a very early memory of being able to defy gravity, which is obviously false.

Most of my memories from when I was 7 and younger are FakeMemories. Sure, the events have happened, but the visuals that accompany my hazy memories of said events are mostly false. I can tell because almost all of my 'memories' from this time period are third person. It's like I'm watching my younger self participating in these events, instead of remembering the events through my own eyes and from my perspective.

This happens to this troper to a disturbing degree. Some of it is as simple as the troper's supposed earliest memory being taken home from the hospital (from being born) in a car we never had from a point of view outside of the car, but it's gotten to the point where any argument about something happening is statistically quite likely to end with the troper giving the other person the benefit of the doubt on even incredibly flimsy evidence.