Weird, unexplained memory?

I for some reason have this memory that I could've sworn was real, but actually isn't.

When I was much younger, my father used to smoke cigarettes. I have this vivid memory of my father one day relaxing in the house, smoking a cigarette. I remember him wearing a green tank top and some shorts as he was smoking.

When I try to explain this to the rest of my family, they all say that it was impossible, because in reality, I wasn't even born yet, and that it was actually my older brother who remembers that, which makes me extremely confused.

If I wasn't even alive yet, then how come I remember that event happening so clearly as if it actually had happened?

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hami1091 · 41-45, F

Perhaps he wore similar clothes or even the same ones during a point in both yours and your brothers early years. :/

MegaManX97 · 26-30, M

I don't know. Everyone is saying that by the time I was born, my father had already quit smoking.

hami1091 · 41-45, F

@MegaManX97: Oh I see. Well perhaps he was sneaking one and you saw him.

MegaManX97 · 26-30, M

I had that thought too, but I have doubts about it. Considering at the time, we lived in a small apartment, and we were all very small and young, and my mother at the time wasn't even working, it would've been obvious if he was smoking to everyone else.