Your Brain Is Rewriting Your Past

You are thinking of a memory right now. You believe you're simply retrieving it. The truth is far stranger. Every time you remember something, your brain doesn't replay it — it rebuilds it. This is why your memory isn't a recording but a reconstruction, and why the past you carry isn't what happened. It's what you needed it to be. If this changed how you think, like and subscribe — new videos on the strange science of everyday life, every week.