• taiyang@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Maybe, it’d have to be rooted in one of the earlier parts of the brain though, which aren’t quite as good with memories. They tend to manifest as feelings and triggers though, like a phobia (at least, that’s the hypothesis, you can’t exactly test that by torturing babies). Which, makes sense to me, since the amygdala is pretty good to go at that age, lol.

    That’s not to say it’s impossible (the brain is very plastic), just that the more dedicated parts for that aren’t there and your understanding of the world isn’t good enough to make sense of it. In your case, you wouldn’t need the latter to at least understand the feelings at the time, though. I for instance have a pretty sure memory of getting wiped out by someone in a swing in preschool, though I can’t even remember visiting Disneyland in 2nd grade lol.

    I mostly only bring it up because my sister swears she has district memory at that age and I know she’s having reconstructive memory bias to change her memories to better reflect her current world view. I was there, after all, and it’s a pet peeve of mine ever since! Lol