Creating a false memory

In the article, the author brings up the same story of people describing how a car accident was, and the words that were used to ask them about the accident made their brains to create a false memory accordingly.

The article says that as we store memories in our brain and bring them out when we remember them, they are affected in biases depending on the way that it is being pulled out without us realizing. He says, "There's no way we can be sure that the events in our memories really happened the way we recall. As much as we may wish otherwise, details get altered, added, or deleted, and sequences of events get shuffled."

At the end of the article, the author suggests that the only way to prevent from our memories being corrupted with bias is by simply writing down (in a journal or some sort), which I agree, but does not seem so necessary because the things that I would like to remember would likely be easier for me to remember later on, though there are chanced that those will be affected by biases still.

By reading this week's chapter about memories, I can't stop asking myself if my memories from long time ago are really same as I remember, or even really happened. I do realize that I've made up some memories based off from my childhood pictures, which until now I believed that the photos helped me to pull them out that were hidden so deeply.