unreliable memory

• forgettingFailing to retain memories
• hazyUnclear, indistinct
• fuzzySoft and unclear
• distortedMisshapen from original form
• falseNot matching reality

confabulation · gaps · fragmented · selective · fading · misremembered · flashback · déjà vu · repressed · trauma · witness · testimony · nostalgia · rose-tinted · blur · fog · dreamlike · fleeting

• plot twistsplot twist, twist ending, surprise ending, unexpected turn, final reveal
• quirky storytellingunreliable narrator, nonlinear plot, absurdist fiction, eccentric characters, surreal elements