I had a similar one to that, where I completely overwrote my actual memory of what happened with what habit said should have happened, where I went to get my bike from the garage and it was not there. But I clearly remembered having stored it in the garage the day prior.
Spoiler: I hadn’t. I’d gone to the store on the way back, left the bike locked in front of the store, then (since I almost always go to the store on foot) walked home. My brain internally rewrote this as “rode home, [stored bike, went to the store], went home.” (The [] part did not happen.)
Memory is weird, especially if your experience is normally highly compressible.
I had a similar one to that, where I completely overwrote my actual memory of what happened with what habit said should have happened, where I went to get my bike from the garage and it was not there. But I clearly remembered having stored it in the garage the day prior.
Spoiler: I hadn’t. I’d gone to the store on the way back, left the bike locked in front of the store, then (since I almost always go to the store on foot) walked home. My brain internally rewrote this as “rode home, [stored bike, went to the store], went home.” (The [] part did not happen.)
Memory is weird, especially if your experience is normally highly compressible.