@DaveHiggins I think these cultural distorted/missing memory phenomena are probably revealing of how much of our experience (at least retrospectively) is a jointly constructed artefact. It's quite common to talk of having false memories of things our families tell us we did, but it seems more complex than that. Our retention of 'real' memories is so mediated by and (e.g. in the case of the Flumps) dependent on later contexts that the whole real/false distinction becomes problematic.