Can false memories be created by...?

Childhood memories are always suspect and prone to suggestion. A memory is not necessarily more valid because it comes back unforced, just as a forced memory is not always questionable.

You said "I had really explicitly sexual dreams beginning probably at four". Presumably, you mean that as an adult you recall having these dreams at four and not that you have had these dreams continuously since four.

Hypnosis used to be the way to "unlock" childhood memories, but this method has itself come under scrutiny for implanting false memories.

When you and the hypnotist are searching for "proof" of some repressed event, it is impossible to practice what scientific testing refers to as a "double-blind" technique, where neither the subject nor the investigator is unaware of the background to the questions being asked. As a result, any findings are subject to contamination by awareness of the information that is being searched for.

There is no way to know for certain if an event really happened or not by looking within yourself. The best indication you can get is circumstantial evidence from other sources (relatives, friends, etc). But when asking them, the interviewer has to be careful not to asking leading questions like "Do you have any bad memories about uncle?" and instead leave them open-ended "Tell me about uncle?"

Sorry I can't be more positive.

I would say its most likely a real memory, especially if you have had (and are still having) symptoms of sexual abuse.

Denial is something to look at too. Don't rush into things though, there will be a lot of pain goin through this but you will make it out all right.

yes a false memery can be created. but not out of thin air.

when I was a child my mother told me my father abused me

she told me of the things he did

she told me over and over again

when he went on a ship for 9 months she took me to a therapist and soon after she divorced and started dating this redneck.

I REMEMBER MY FATHER ABUSING ME

but I also remember my mother telling me over and over again what he did t me

everyday

for weeks while he was on a boat in the atlantic

I know now that those memmorys of my father were false. the woman died of a heroin overdose in 2000 and I started to live with my dad after nobody could protest. my father is the kindest most reserved hardest working person I know and THERE IS NO WAY THOSE MEMMORYS ARE TRUE. you can tell a kid anything and they'll believe it. thell even imagin it into their past. it works on adults to. it is sick and twisted