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Cake day: March 20th, 2025

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  • That sounds like how I believed my memory worked, I used to think it was extraordinarily exact and I was some kind of savant.

    But out of curiosity, I set up a test where I recorded a boardgame session with my friends. After we finished playing, we sat and wrote down our memories of that time with as much detail as possible, in a different room and with no input from others, and then watched the recording.

    I was broadly correct in my recollections and able to correctly paraphrase others, but whenever I went into detail my recollections were incorrect more often than not.

    Turns out, I was gifted at bullshitting myself, lol. My friends and I had a great time executing that little test, we laughed a lot and learned about each other.

    Have you ever conducted a test on yourself like the one I conducted?