Remember your childhood? Seriously, do you really remember, way back to when you were tiny? And if you do, what are those memories shaped by? Chances are, they're influenced not just by what you truly remember, but by old photos and family stories.

And those family photos are often a starting point for a narrative we're either told by older family members or that we construct in our minds. (We've been exploring some of these ideas in our series Photography and Memory.)

Inspired by this concept, we asked our followers on Instagram to share their "constructed" memories with us. We called it #fakememory, and received some incredibly poignant stories.

A #FakeMemory You Have To See To Believe

ASSIGNMENT! Photography + Memory. So many of our memories are informed by images of moments we don’t actually remember. But they happened, right? NPR wants to know: Do you have a #fakememory based entirely on old photos you've seen of yourself? Moments you think you remember only because you’ve seen a picture?

Here's one, from our former intern Jim Tuttle: "I don't have an actual recollection of being photographed with a bottle of whiskey in my grandparents' kitchen (I was 9 months old),” he says, “but my knowledge of that place and my family (made during Labor Day weekend, 1986) make it easy to imagine the incident as if it were a real memory.