Thank you Mythopoeika but she died about 20 years ago. As far as I remember she was in the ambulance because of the thyroid, but then with hyper thyroid the heart does beat really fast.Unless...
She had a heart attack while walking to the letterbox.
She was then picked up by an ambulance to take her to the hospital.
She had another heart attack in the ambulance.
So they could both be right.
Sorry to hear of your loss, Iris.
I believe that it is.It does look kind of like a gateway.
Kindle Reader app on PC?
And yet I know these precise events never happened. My parents moved out of that place in 2005, and the song in question wasn't released until 2009.
I've also lived at multiple locations, averaging two years per 'home' until I was 18. My memory's of 'when' are tied to a home and are usually accurate. I'm quite good with pop songs as well. Having said that I wouldn't for a moment consider them infallible.I have a few dodgy memories like that, my family lived at 5 different addresses when I was a kid, when I've googled around times that thing I remember came out or aired on the television, a number of them can't actually have happened in the places I recall them as having.
Love to hear those @severs1966, most interesting.If anyone likes the description above, I will add a couple of these other memories.
Has anyone experienced things that actually never happened?
False memory syndromes are medical curiosities that have had some investigation, especially when connected to physical or mental trauma.
But what about mundane, ordinary memories of things that just couldn't have happened, or which have been established not to have happened? Memories that, on reflection, seem to be imaginary, but which seem totally real?
I will start with this one: My "first" motorcycle test.
I remember when I "first" passed my motorcycle driving test as a teenager. Except that I had to do it "again", several years later, because it seems that it never happened. The inexplicable bit is that I remember the whole episode, including the bike I learned on (which never existed) and - strangest of all - the lessons on how to ride it.
Those fictional lessons were useful, though, because the "second" bike test I did (in reality the only one) was very cheap because I didn't need any lessons! I just already knew the entire contents of weeks of learning, including the occasional scary moment (as an inexperienced learner rider, solo on the road) that reinforced the particularly important safety aspects...
The UK motorcycle test has changed in nature a few times over the years, and my "first" test and its lessons included certain aspects that simply couldn't have happened, because I would have been too young to own and ride a motorcycle at the time when they were current.
The memories of that time are still completely clear. It's almost like they have been transplanted into my head from whoever really took those lessons and did all that L-plate riding.
In due course, I wanted to buy a motorcycle, and was discussing the options with people in the context of comparing it the one I "used to own" (which I never owned). The bit that bothered me was that I couldn't remember the day that I got rid of it. This is obvious now - I never did sell it because I didn't have it in the first place! I rapidly discovered this when everyone else was asking "what bike that you used to own? You've never owned a motorbike". A quick bit of research showed that no, I didn't have the motorcycle category on my driving licence.
So I had to "start all over again" in my 20s, which was highly frustrating, because I "knew" that I had done it all already. I went to a local motorcycle driving school to learn, and discovered that I did indeed already know how to ride a motorbike, including all the wise old safety knowledge and tips that my (fictional) old instructor had imparted, all of which was correct and of a high standard. So I progressed immediately to booking a test, and passed with ease.
Where did these memories come from? Where did the knowledge come from?
I still ride a motorcycle, and have avoided a number of near-accidents over the years by using this knowledge that I gained in my period as a learner. It's been very handy and useful knowledge. But where did it come from?
I have other stuff in my life that I remember clearly, but which did not happen and in some cases, simply could not have happened. Some of it is stuff that is out of place time-wise, for example adult experience memories (no, not naughty ones) from when I would have been a child, or memories of travelling in places I have never been to, or never went to at the time that the places were like that (for places that have changed a lot).
If anyone likes the description above, I will add a couple of these other memories. So does anyone else have this?
You referred to your "(fictional) old instructor"...do you actually have a memory of that person as a flesh and blood individual you could describe and who has a name? Or do you assume/have a vague notion you had an instructor...
An alternative..and one explanation for deja vu as it happens...is that perhaps you lived this alternative life, and got to practice driving, in particularly lucid dreams which are now indistinguishable from memories of real life.
Could it be you really learned to ride a motorcycle as a teenager, using someone else's bike you'd borrowed or to which you had ready access, then over time came to (mis-) recall as a bike you'd actually owned?
Similarly ...
Could it be the apparently fictitious first test wasn't an official licensing test event, but rather an exercise to demonstrate your learning to (e.g.) someone who really owned the bike, had served as an informal instructor, and declared you 'ready'?
If there is a Jez Hardwicke, there's no sign of him on the net. Sounds more like a lucid dream that turned into a false memory (if that's possible).
I remember the instructor as clear as day, especially because his name was Jez Hardwicke, and I remember him repeatedly telling me and other candidates filling in forms, etc, that it has an "e" on the end, which is the less common spelling. ...
You referred to your "(fictional) old instructor"...do you actually have a memory of that person as a flesh and blood individual you could describe and who has a name? Or do you assume/have a vague notion you had an instructor.
The only examples I can think of having someone else's memories are in cases purporting to suggest reincarnation, deja vu and, in a slightly less dramatic way, people who claim memories inherited from organ donors.
An alternative..and one explanation for deja vu as it happens...is that perhaps you lived this alternative life, and got to practice driving, in particularly lucid dreams which are now indistinguishable from memories of real life.
That seems to be so. There are plenty of Jeremy Hardwicks without the 'e', however.If there is a Jez Hardwicke, there's no sign of him on the net.
OP: I don't want to be funny, and I don't think u are crackers or anything and you won't be locked up but I'd probably look to get a referral to a neurologist.
there were a few incidences a few years ago, where the dvla (at the time) were forgetting to add your motorcycle entitlement back onto your licence if you had to send it to them - change of address for instance.
i have always worked in the motorcycle trade and heard of a few people that this happened to, you had to re sit the test to get the missing entitlement back again - unless you had the foresight to photocopy your licence before sending it in.
Could this have been the case?
[...] could you have imagined the lessons? If you had any interest in motorbike riding might you have investigated, read articles, or talked to riders you knew to see if a motorbike was right for you?
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Any help?
[...] the dvla (at the time) were forgetting to add your motorcycle entitlement back onto your licence if you had to send it to them - change of address for instance.[...]
A few people that this happened to [...] had to re sit the test to get the missing entitlement back again - unless you had the foresight to photocopy your licence before sending it in.
Could this have been the case?