As an alcoholic, of course, I can remember fabulous times drinking that never actually happened -- I just imagine the feeling of them, and they become as powerful as real memories.
Conversely, oftentimes I can't clearly recall horrible events which would be burned into the memory of a normal person.
That's alcoholism. A distorted, magic mirror. An involuntary selective amnesia.
A cognitive fog.
An inability to link behavior and consequence.
A "curious mental blank spot."
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