remember the Taylor Swift song: “all the lonely Starbucks lovers”? Why do we hum when it’s sentences we don’t know but our brain fills in the blanks (wrongly) when it’s a few missing words?
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Because this is how our memories ALWAYS work. For everything. It’s just more noticeable in this case.
In other words, our memory usually doesn’t actually store a full picture of what happened. Instead it only stores the most basic information. When you remember something, your brain fills in most of it with, essentially, guesses. This is why eyewitness testimony is so notoriously unreliable. This is also one explanation for the Mandela Effect.
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