"The moments we remember from the first years of our lives are often our most treasured because we have carried them longest. The chances are, they are also completely made up."
"A study led by Martin Conway, director of the Centre for Memory and Law at City University of London, examined the first memories of 6,641 people.
The scientists found that 2,487 of the memories shared, such as sitting in a pram, were from before the participants had reached the age of two, with 14% of participants claiming to remember an event before their first birthday,
and some even before their own birth.
Conway and his team concluded that these memories were unlikely to be of real events because of the age they were captured at. If this is true, it suggests that many of us are carrying around memories from early chapters of our lives which never happened."
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190516-why-you-cannot-trust-your-earliest-childhood-memories) where testing was done on people over a number of years of simple events related - and the re-telling changed over the years. People are unable to 'stick to a story-line' - their memory, or possibly their active experience of life and further accumulation of knowledge/information impact even their memories.
