Yes. You can have dissociative amnesia even if you remember that something happened. It does not always mean forgetting an entire event. Sometimes a person remembers that something happened but cannot remember important details, emotions, conversations, actions, or parts of the experience. You may know you went somewhere, talked to someone, or did something without remembering exactly what happened. Some people remember events in a vague, foggy, disconnected, or “far away” way. Others may remember facts about an event but have no emotional connection to it.
Remembering the event without access to the content is still a form of dissociative amnesia. It is simply subtler and less widely recognized.
This page is part of the Amnesia, Memory Gaps, and Information Barriers in DID section of the CommuniDID site, which explains why dissociative systems experience time loss, emotional amnesia, and state-dependent memory differences between parts.
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