The article was very interesting in the fact that I also have encountered memories that I believe to have real, but were simply stories my mother would tell me of my younger days. I firmly recall in my mind of when our neighborhood flooded. My brother and I were playing in it with our wearing our rain boots and toys. We were at a family gathering when my mother asked if I recalled any of it. I told her the story and laughed and said “that’s the exact story I would tell you when you were younger.” Turns out that I remembered nothing more than the story as she told it and the pictures she had. The telltale sign was the fact that I couldn’t recall anything other than the base of what my mother had told me so long ago. Our brains are very complex in the way they store information and the facts but not the source. My thought process seems to lead me to believe that we are remembering what actually has meaning to us; information that could benefit us someday. This process our brains do so frequently could help our creativity in a way by taking our life experiences and building on these thoughts, memories, and ideas. In the reading, it was mentioned that any of these things could have gotten many creative artists, writers, and singers, into some legal issues. They very clearly did not mean to produce work similar to others, but simply expanded further on the works; which were too similar to the works before them. I do not believe there is fault in this, as the majority of the human brains out there do this very same thing. We may never fully know why we can seem to remember as if it was a primary source, but was simply a
