even now when I try to think of it I have trouble
recalling such vivid memories.
Are the youth memories part of what you captured to paper, and are you able to find an external way of verifying that they're authentic?
I have zero experience in this field and no education in related disciplines (other than CS :) ).
A theory about experiences such as from dreams - that it might feel like memory recall but actually be caused by stuff being written directly to the recall system at the time of recall.
By way of analogy, you used to be able to buy devices that plugged into floppy drives, and wrote magnetic signal directly to the reader head, without there being any actual movement or a real disk in there.
Continuing this (still entirely speculative) theory, after we wake up, a whole lot of internal correction rebuilds our knowledge map. This could explain why our memory of dreams fades as we wake up - that stuff we experienced wasn't a genuine experience and our brain has ways of knowing and chucking the junk.
I have zero experience in this field and no education in related disciplines (other than CS :) ).
A theory about experiences such as from dreams - that it might feel like memory recall but actually be caused by stuff being written directly to the recall system at the time of recall.
By way of analogy, you used to be able to buy devices that plugged into floppy drives, and wrote magnetic signal directly to the reader head, without there being any actual movement or a real disk in there.
Continuing this (still entirely speculative) theory, after we wake up, a whole lot of internal correction rebuilds our knowledge map. This could explain why our memory of dreams fades as we wake up - that stuff we experienced wasn't a genuine experience and our brain has ways of knowing and chucking the junk.