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What is the word for when you remember things better than they were?
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∙ 12y ago
- self delusion,
wishful thinking
nostalgia
sometimes, selective memory loss or motivated forgetting
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I don't know what the word is for this but I do know that is a very common to remember things in a good light especially for someone you really care about. Unless things were really, really bad it is quite normal to remember things better than they really were after some period of time. Sometimes, if things were really bad and it has a tremendous emotional impact on someones emotions or thought processes, they can go into a state of denial where they do not or cannot accept the circumstances that occurred. It may be that they don't even have any control over the situation because it was so traumatic for them at some point. It's similar, in my opinion, to the process an individual goes through when a loved one has passed away. There are, I believe, four stages of the grieving process, denial being one of the stages - maybe the second stage but I'm not sure. In addition, I guess there are times when an individual is not mentally healthy or has emotional problems that are unresolved and they refuse to accept, or they block out, things that were too emotionally or mentally traumatic for their ability to handle or deal with.
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