Marek Galek
Marek Galek voted up Christopher Edward's answer
I have an early memory about a time before I was born? Am I psychic? I don't know how it got there, I just had it in my mind since as long as I could remember. I'm also good at predicting what time of day it is and how much time has passed.

It is unlikely I'm afraid! The brain is very good at coming up with false memories out of stories it has heard. A study by psychologists Loftus and Pickrell demonstrated that just telling someone something happened to them (when in actual fact it hadn't) leads to them 'remembering' that false event around 25% of the … Read more

Marek Galek
Marek Galek voted up Christopher Edward's answer
I have an early memory about a time before I was born? Am I psychic? I don't know how it got there, I just had it in my mind since as long as I could remember. I'm also good at predicting what time of day it is and how much time has passed.

It is unlikely I'm afraid! The brain is very good at coming up with false memories out of stories it has heard. A study by psychologists Loftus and Pickrell demonstrated that just telling someone something happened to them (when in actual fact it hadn't) leads to them 'remembering' that false event around 25% of the … Read more