Mark’s Down On Your Syntax said:
False memory syndrome is a real thing. There’s a lot of threads on this site where people discuss things they remember but didn’t (and in a lot of cases, couldn’t).
I can distinctly remember an X-Wing flying into the Death Star shields and exploding in Return of the Jedi when I saw it in a triple-bill showing nearly 30 years ago. I remember it happening and it’s a real memory. But it didn’t happen, ever.
As much as we human beings can rely on our memories we simply can’t trust them. They don’t work like video recordings and even established details in genuine occurrences are able to be changed, reordered or just plain invented after the fact.
Try remembering what colour socks you wore that day, exactly how many other people were in the theatre or how much the ticket cost. Try remembering practically anything from back then with as much absolute certainty as “human jabba was in the movie”.
I’m not saying there’s no chance you’re right - you could be, I wasn’t there - I’m just saying there’s a reeaaally strong chance you’re probably misremembering.
I personally remember Leia in TESB having the cinnamon bun hairstyle and Luke having a blue lightsaber in ROTJ, so yes, memories definitely cannot be relied upon to be 100% accurate.
I wouldn’t say the examples you two gave of your own are really comparable to having memories of whole scenes existing that are missing from the official cut (all of which are actual scenes that were filmed, not figments of imagination).