I remember meeting my younger self and vice versa too. As you say. Both perspectives.
[Same as Rip said, it has taken some time for it to harden and he also knows that as a child, the experience has stuck with him, but he hasn't questioned it that much, almost thinking it more dreamlike than something that actually happened. But he recalls.]
But if my memories had been erased, I wouldn't remember. They could have taken me from any point of my life and I could have done whatever, but I'd have no idea.
Which means that one day, you or the others will know things I've done that I don't.
Lovely.
[It does well to make him feel even more trapped.]
nah. the writers never do!
[Same as Rip said, it has taken some time for it to harden and he also knows that as a child, the experience has stuck with him, but he hasn't questioned it that much, almost thinking it more dreamlike than something that actually happened. But he recalls.]
But if my memories had been erased, I wouldn't remember. They could have taken me from any point of my life and I could have done whatever, but I'd have no idea.
Which means that one day, you or the others will know things I've done that I don't.
Lovely.
[It does well to make him feel even more trapped.]