A closer look
Sigmund Freud famously documented vivid memories from his childhood, only to realize he was viewing himself in the scene from an angle he couldn't possibly have witnessed. Whenever you shift your visual perspective in a memory from first-person to a flying, third-person drone camera, you strip the memory of its emotional intensity. The brain automatically converts traumatic or embarrassing personal experiences into third-person movies to psychologically distance you from your own emotional pain.
