The past should be viewed not as a list of what happened, but as a general guideline as to what may have happened. When you think back to yesterday, it is a certainty that it had to have happened, correct? Yet, try to imagine it.
Recall every thought, every image, and every action. It is quite impossible, because your memory is not so sure of itself. Therefore, how do we know what we do "remember" is even accurate? You remembered eating frosted flakes for breakfast, and so confident in your choice of breakfast cereal are you that it is indisputable. Yet, perhaps you merely forgot, and had cheerios for breakfast? What then becomes the reality?
Assuming that there were no outside observers, it becomes your reality that you did eat Frosted Flakes for breakfast. Because you remember it, it then did happen to you. There is no mental proof that you did not, and no one to dispute the fact. However, perhaps your memory gave way, and you came to the revelation that you did eat cheerios? Well, perhaps that too is a false memory, and you did in fact eat Frosted Flakes. How do we know that the past is actually true?
Referring back to my previous post concerning the present, how do we know that anything we do is actual? If we assume that the present is infinitely small, then everything we do instantly thrown into the past. As soon as you comprehend and read this word, it becomes a past event, and is now in your memory. If it is in the past, then it is subject to tampering from our memory. What we may have heard 10 minutes ago may be something completely different, or we may not have heard it all!
A confusing topic, to be sure.
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