" recollecting "

 [ "recollection" ]

1: Teh process of thinking back to when times were either worse or better - all thoughts being memories.

  * e.g.,  ... My recollection of that holiday was that it was the start of a nationwide phenomena 

 [ "recollect" ]

1:  To collect again after an attempted previous collection.

  * e.g.,  ...  That goddamn orphanage keeps calling our house in a futile effort to recollect donations. 

 [ "recollect" ]

2:  To refresh, rejuvenate oneself.

  * e.g.,  ...  I hate everything right now; I need to go home, recollect myself, and read the dictionary. 

 [ "convenient recollection" ]

1: A memory recalled inacuratley, to unconsciously protect against guilt, anxiety, or unwanted associations.

  * e.g.,  ... Are you kidding? She must be having convenient recollection! 

 [ "Recollections may vary" ]

1: Your a lying one-upmanship victim whinger.

  * e.g.,  ... Meghan: I have been subject to racial and other abuse. Queen Elizabeth II: Recollections may vary. 

 [ "I have no recollection" ]

1: Typically invoked by governmental officials during sworn testimony to the U.S. Congress to deny potentially damaging -- politically and/or criminally -- behavior.

  * e.g.,  ... From the 1994 film "Clear and Present Danger" starring Harrison Ford: 

 [ "memory recollection fragmentation" ]

1: Only being able to remember particular fragments of memories or ideas from an earlier time where the context of such memories are no longer recoverable.

  * e.g.,  ... I had a really good idea last night, but can't seem to remember what it is. It must be a bad case of memory recollection fragmentation. The guy has a really bad case of memory recollection fragmentation. It took all month to engineer the tissue to CPU membrane but forgot a critical step. Old age produces memory recollection fragmentation. Most of our patients have trouble integrating life's memories into a coherent timeline. 

 [ "flawed recollection" ]

1: flawed recollection. When you reference something from your past memory, & discover in the future,

  * e.g.,  ... Although Gloria swore on her mother's soul, that she remembered every detail of the day in question, her flawed recollection became crystal clear once other reliable witnesses unanimously presented statements to the contrary of Gloria's account. 

 [ "flawed recollection" ]

2: that what you distinctly recollect, is now,

 [ "flawed recollection" ]

3: somehow, a very different set of occurrences. AKA inaccurate recall

 [ "Erection Recollection" ]

1: Getting aroused from regular things, because you've associated them with sexual things

  * e.g.,  ... Guy 1: "Why do you keep getting hard over the Shantae soundtrack?!" 

 [ "Creative Recollection" ]

1: The art or morphing fiction into facts for dramatic effect.

  * e.g.,  ... His memory of how good that dance was, is just creative recollection.