Is the thought of a unicorn.. a real thought? Remember yourself daily challenge, day 3.

Today's serves a triple purpose.

1) It should be quick. I'm out with friends. :]

2) It'a memory of an event...

3) Where I remember an event that I shouldn't be able to.

Thus the title, which is a Discordian phase from the Goddess herself.

When I was little, I don't remember how old exactly (under 10? maybe?), I had a memory come to me from when I was much younger. I remembered my mom mowing the grass, out near this little area with a curving arc of yellowbell bushes. Our secondary road into the yard ran right by it, near where my mom's old, decrepit trailer lay rotting, rusting and dying. I remember grass (cut and uncut alike), bugs, and all sorts of details, like smell.

I remember a guy walking up from down the road, from off to the right, and beginning to talk to my mom about selling part of the property back past the little stream that divided it. Then it lost my attention because I was very young, and I went off to play or eat grass or something.

This came back to me then because my mom started talking about it, to my grandmother, I think. We were sitting in the living room of that old, sturdy house. My mom was sitting at the kitchen table; my grandmother in the recliner that she'd eventually "live" in after she got cancer. So I piped up with an "I remember that too!"

And they were like, okay, whatever. I insisted, and they began to get irritated, telling me there was no way I could remember that event.

"Why?" I asked them.

"Because you weren't born then."

I pressed the issue; I was so sure that they were wrong (lol) because I remembered it. So clearly. They got pissed and told me to shut up or whatever; you know, like you do with kids.

It turns out we were both right. The property was sold before I was even born. I want to say it might have been while she was pregnant with me; I really don't remember. It was then or even earlier. Nonetheless, I did remember it. In fact, I remember that part of the event much better than the "real" event where I had an altercation with my parents. I remembered what they were describing before they described all of it; a fact obviously lost on them at the time.

So the options here are equally interesting, in my opinion.

That I remembered an event that happened before my birth.

That I made it up/dreamed it/was wrong at the time, but associated so thoroughly with the "memory" that I claimed it as my own, and now cannot tell it from my own.

If you dream a memory, which is it?

If you can't tell if something you remember is real, is it real?

If only one person saw something, but everyone else saw something different, what would that mean?