In addition to this we all have hidden memories that we didn't understand at the time what was happening to us because we were too young or out of the loop or we had been drugged in some way by doctors, nurses or unscrupulous people along the way too.
So, literally everyone has hidden memories of some kind in their minds somewhere waiting to come out.
But, then also we have memories of every movie we have ever seen or every book we have ever read and every story we have ever been told and how to do we in the end separate all the stories from the true experiences especially if you didn't understand what was happening at the time to begin with?
Also, what if you witnessed something bad happening to someone else and you were too young or traumatized to realize it didn't happen to you?
For example, as a young man of about 15 or 16 or even 14 I climbed up Littlerock Dam.
This is a picture of Littlerock Dam today but I couldn't still see the rusting ladder up the face of it that was there still around 1963. Possibly the whole dam has been reconstructed since then not sure. I climbed the ladder up the face of this dam because I was young and foolish then. It says it is 124 feet from foundation to crest of the dam by the way. If you click on this picture it should enlarge:
Anyway, I convinced my friend to climb up this dam on the ladder but forgot how afraid of heights he was. But, he climbed up behind me because I talked him into this which was a big mistake. When I reached the top he got stopped where the ladder goes out from the Dam a few feet because it is scarier there about 75 feet up the dam.He froze there for about 15 minutes until I realized he was going to die there unless I saved him so I did. I climbed down from the top and climbed over him (because I'm not afraid of heights) and grabbed his feet one by one and put each one one by one on a lower step until he had climbed all the way back down.
However, most of my life I was so traumatized by these events I believed it was I who froze on the dam until I met him again in my 40s and he reminded me that I'm not afraid of heights, he is.
How many memories do we have like this when we save someone and we are so afraid to lose our friends so bad we think it is our near deaths we are witnessing over time?
I'm realizing this sort of thing is pretty common around near death experiences with all of us. Trauma often creates false memories for one reason or another.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Dam
Little Rock Dam
| Little Rock Dam or Littlerock Dam | |
|---|---|
West end of dam, looking southeast
| |
 
Location of the dam in California
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| Official name | Little Rock-Palmdale Dam |
| Location | California, United States |
| Coordinates | 34°29′09″N118°01′19″WCoordinates: 34°29′09″N 118°01′19″W |
| Opening date | 1924 |
| Owner(s) | Palmdale Water District Littlerock Creek Irrigation District |
| Dam and spillways | |
| Type of dam | Concrete gravity |
| Impounds | Little Rock Creek |
| Height | 124 ft (38 m)[1] |
| Length | 576 ft (176 m)[1] |
| Reservoir | |
| Creates | Little Rock Reservoir |
| Total capacity | 3,700 acre⋅ft (4,600,000 m3)[1] |
| Catchment area | 63.7 sq mi (165 km2)[1] |
Little Rock Dam, also known as Littlerock Dam, or officially as Little Rock-Palmdale Dam, is a concrete gravity dam on Little Rock Creek in Los Angeles County, California, about 5 mi (8.0 km) south of Palmdale.[2] The dam and Little Rock Reservoir are owned by the Palmdale Water District and Littlerock Creek Irrigation District and are used for agricultural and municipal water supply and flood control.[3]
The dam is 124 ft (38 m) high from foundation to crest and spans 576 ft (176 m) across the canyon, forming a reservoir with a capacity of 3,700 acre⋅ft (4,600,000 m3).[1] The reservoir has a surface area of 108 acres (44 ha) and receives water from a drainage area of 63.7 sq mi (165 km2) on the north slope of the San Gabriel Mountains.[1] A formerly popular recreation spot, the dam, reservoir, and vicinity used to receive about 300,000 visitors each year, but since 2015, the facilities have been closed to the public.[4]
Designed by John S. Eastwood, a noted engineer of several dams in the western U.S., Littlerock was built in 1924 by the Palmdale Irrigation District (now Palmdale Water District) to provide a water supply for orchards in the area.[5] With a height of 112 ft (34 m) and holding 2,400 acre⋅ft (3,000,000 m3) of water, it was the tallest multiple-arch reinforced concrete dam in the world at the time.[6] The dam's design combined with its record height was highly controversial;[7] the state mandated renovations in 1932, in which concrete buttresses were added to the dam face.[6] In 1938, the dam nearly failed as a result of historic flooding, which led to the evacuation of hundreds of people in downstream towns.[8] The dam was renovated again in 1966 to comply with increasing safety standards and regional urban development. In the 1970s, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).[9]
In 1994, the last major renovation of the dam was completed, which involved strengthening the face with roller-compacted concrete, hiding the original multiple-arch design and transforming it to resemble a conventional gravity dam. The arches are still visible on the back face of the dam when the water level in the reservoir is low. The design changes resulted in the dam being taken off the NRHP. The dam was also raised 12 ft (3.7 m) and a new spillway added, increasing the reservoir capacity to its current 3,700 acre⋅ft (4,600,000 m3).[4][6]
The dam and reservoir are scheduled for a major renovation project in three separate phases. The first phase begins with construction of a subterranean grade control structure within Littlerock Reservoir at Rocky Point. The second phase is the removal of 1,165,000 cubic yards (891,000 m3) of accumulated sediment from within the reservoir over a seven- to twelve-year time frame. Finally, scheduled ongoing sediment removal of approximately 38,000 cubic yards (29,000 m3) per year to maintain design capacity. There are no plans to reopen its facilities to the public.[10]
The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has developed a safe eating advisory for Little Rock Reservoir based on levels of mercury or PCBs found in fish caught from this water body.[11]
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