Is it so in your mind?

It means we tend to blend events to make our story work. Last week you saw a black cat. Two days later you had an minor accident. If you believed the cat sighting caused your accident, you would remember the cat sighting later and the accident earlier so it would seem to you that you saw the cat and had the accident right after.

Context:

Research has shown that our perceptual system seems to pull causally-related events together -- compared to two events that are thought to happen of their own accord, we perceive the first event as occurring later if we think it is the cause and we perceive the second event as occurring earlier if we think it is the outcome.
So how does this temporal binding occur?

More:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121031142005.htm