Can we trust our memories?

Sana Qadar: In his time as a parent, Charan Ranganath has planned a lot of birthday parties. Sana Qadar: That's a good segue to talking about memories, fallibility, and how unreliable it can be at times, which is so strange to me, like especially the fact that you know, you alter a memory every time you recall it, which makes me wonder like what is the point of memory if by doing the very thing it's designed for, remembering, you're messing it up? Sana Qadar: Repressed memory therapy had a bit of a heyday in the 90s, but as Professor Charan Ranganath alludes to, it's now mostly discredited. But then there's also other people who believe that we can't trust any eyewitness ever, Charan Ranganath: And that's also not scientifically supported. Charan Ranganath: Well, what you can do is, first of all, be there, you know, really give into your experiencing self a little bit more and really focus on what's unique about this moment.