From the article:
“There’s a total consensus in the field of memory ... If anything, fear and trauma enhances the encoding of the memory at a molecular level... It’s essentially the same phenomenon that makes people forever remember what they were doing when the planes hit the World Trade Center on 9/11, or when they learned John Kennedy was shot.”
I remember exactly where I was when I heard about 9/11 and when I heard that the Challenger exploded.
She doesn’t recall where she was, when it was, who else was with her, etc. The article refutes its own premise.
“Yet misattributions in remembering are surprisingly common. Sometimes we remember events that never happened, misattributing vivid images that spring to mind to memories of past events that did not occur. At other times we mistakenly take credit for a thought, when in reality we are recalling it - without awareness -from something we read or heard. Misattribution can alter our lives in strange or unexpected ways”
Professor Daniel L Schacter, Head of the Schacter Memory Lab at Harvard University
Your attention span is WAY too long!