Ynaig
Hello Invicible,
Here's the way my specific memory recording happened first time:
When I was 3 years old or so, I was at my aunt's place in another city and my aunt had a dog guarding the property and the house and so on. At that time I had several pieces of orange fruit in my hand and at one time I felt compelled to give one piece to the dog (I wouldn't know at that time it's not good to give orange fruit to the dogs) and the dog bit viciously on my left arm. I was also shaken by his mouth grip. I felt at that time very afraid and remembered everything like how the bite felt, the way the soil earth felt, the concrete surface felt, the direction of the wind, the position of the sun etc. The fear overcame me all over and somehow mustered the energy to scream for help.
Later then whenever I was punished for bad things (behavior, action etc), that particular memory recording ability rears its ugly head and paints everything in negative. So over my lifetime, I have several memories that are very negative in context so they overshadow most of my good memories.
Of particular interest regarding to the above memory recording, I cannot interact with dogs at all after that incident cause they bark at me when I approach them or try to pet them. They sometimes bark at me whenever I do nothing and I don't look at them.
Just an idea for you to understand how my memory recording ability works.
And I don't like to use the "should" in the self analysis cause I don't have an equivalent for this in my mother language. The closest it can be is putting the main verb into past tense.
Ynaig