memories you shouldn't remember

This week in class we learned about memory: long-term, short-term, false, deja vu, memory storage, source amnesia, etc..
I found false memory very interesting. False memory is a memory of an event that did not actually happen. People often think of their memories an exact recording of their life events so, naturally, everything remembered must be true. False! Sometimes people remember a event that never even happened. In a video I found, this boy was reading a journal that his family wrote about happenings throughout the years. One of the stories was about how he had gotten lost in a mall when he was 5 years old. He went on to tell the story of what happened, how he felt, and who he encountered while lost in the mall. Little did he know, the story was actually placed in the journal just before he was told to read it, so it never actually happened. He had false memory.