In addition to seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting and smelling, we are also constantly processing information about gravity, outside temperature, humidity, internal temperature, the location of our limbs in relation to the rest of us, tiredness, how our internal organs are doing, and muscle tension, to name but a few. And as with the other senses, if something is interpreted incorrectly during any of these many simultaneous processes – each of which is imperfect – it has the potential to introduce error into our memories at their inception.
