For this blog, I wrote about a memory of me and my sisters and my mom going to a pumpkin patch around Halloween about 12 years ago. Here is how I remember it:
It was a beautiful fall day, the sun was shining and the sky was clear. I remember goofing around with my sisters and having a great time. I remember grabbing some good food for lunch. Mostly, I remember picking out the biggest pumpkin I could find. One that was definitely bigger than either of my sisters.
However, when I talked to my family members, they seemed to remember a few things differently. My mom remembers us being very naughty, doing things like running away from her and hiding. One of my sisters remembers eating horrible food (she got sick later that night), and my other sister swears she definitely picked out the biggest pumpkin.
I think the biggest factor in why people have different memories of the same event is that everyone had different experiences or perspectives on that event. For example, I remember me and my sisters having a blast because to young kids, running and hiding from their parents is so much fun. However to my mom, we were being extremely naughty by doing this, so she remembers us as being trouble. This also works for my sister remembering the food as bad, whereas I remembered it as good. Since she got sick later that night, of course she thought the food was bad, and likely experienced taste aversion to the food after that.