Repressed Memories

Repressed memories, according to prevalent belief in the eighties and nineties, are based on the idea of memory functioning like a camera. The way i would like to believe my memory works is that i take in all this information. And by having this mental image my head, i'm accessing what was actually in front of me. This originally starts off as a phenomenon that people observe in childhood but then sprens to adults claiming to have repressed memories.